My twenty-first month started out with a bit of drama, as I contracted pneumonia and found myself wheezing quite a bit.  Mommy and Daddy took me to the doctor and bought a nebulizer to continue breathing treatments at home, and I’m well on my way to recovery.  I’m actually very compliant about sitting still with a mask on my face for the ten minutes it takes to complete treatments, and I like to walk around the house holding the mask up to my babies and stuffed animals in order to give them medicine.

I’ve continued to build upon my growing vocabulary, and have recently begun speaking in two-word phrases (“more pizza,” “night-night Daddy,” etc.).  I attempt much longer sentences, too, although they sound like gibberish to the causal listener (“oh nah magheeta, Dada!”)  I can sing the alphabet song all by myself from beginning to end, although I do take a few creative liberties in the middle.  And I’ve recently become much more accurate with my color identifications (I can always reliably identify blue, green, yellow, and purple, and I’m 80% accurate on red and orange).

I’m very good mechanically – I can identify pretty much all basic shapes, and I’m a whiz at getting them into my shape sorter.  When I’m thinking very hard about a given task, I stick my lips out like my Mommy does (see picture below).  My favorite activities include toys that require assembly or stacking, rocking my baby dolls, and coloring.  As the “old lady” of the Infant Room, I’m enjoying being a big fish in a small pond at daycare, while I wait to formally move up to the Toddler Room.

Current likes: getting my way, when Mommy picks me up before my brother

Current dislikes: when dinner doesn’t involve pizza or “noo-noos” in pasta sauce