Milly also is very particular, example: when I tuck her in at night she always has to have her blanky and stuffed animals in just the right spot in her crib-- her blanky by her right cheek and tucked in-between her legs while she falls asleep on her left side. And her animals, well that changes every night and I NEVER get it right the first time, I usually arrange them for her and she then points them to new spots. Silly girl! Alongside with being particular comes her VERY, VERY, VERY strong willed personality. She has been that way, I believe, since the day she was born. And not in a naughty way, just when she decides what she wants, or what she thinks is right, good luck trying to convince her otherwise!
Milly makes us laugh on a regular basis now. She will say the funniest things. She says just about anything now and is saying new words every day that I haven't a clue where she learned them! Some of them are still a little hard to understand, but after asking what a couple of times I usually can figure it out. She is great at communicating with me and I rarely have a problem understanding her. She loves to sing, when I am off doing my own thing, I often hear her singing to her baby or while she is playing with toys, just humming along or making up her own tune. And boy oh boy how that is really music to my ears!
Milly always has and still does dislike any men she doesn't know. I don't know what it is, but ever since she was little, she was much more likely to go to a female first (which I of course don't really mind. :)
She is becoming a better eater everyday. We struggled there for a while, but now she is a total meat lover, mostly beef! She runs around like crazy and is SO fast now, if she takes off I usually find myself running after her. She has all her teeth!! Thank heavens, she was such a cranky teether, I am so grateful to be out of that phase!
Lately she asks for 'two' of EVERYTHING! I don't know what it is, but 2 is the magic number with anything! Here favorite books are the touch and feel animal books, and her favorite movie is NEMO and Tom and Jerry as a close 2nd. Finding Nemo is where she grew the love for her first pet Crush, her baby turtle.
Milly absolutely hates to brush her teeth, back to the stubborn thing. It is a fight EVERY day, no doubt about it. So hard that I normally make Ryan deal with it, because it is so annoying.
Milly is great at reading, and looking at pictures in the books. She can do this for long long periods of time. And she will sit on my lap with me for as long as I will keep on reading to her. She just doesn't get bored with it. And the other thing that NEVER bores her : WATER!! She is a little fish, she will put her whole head under water and hold her breathe- on purpose! When I get ready in the mornings she will just sit on the counter with her feet in the sink and play in the water for as long as I will let her. Some days she talks me into letting her take multiple baths, if I say no, lately she will just get in, clothes on, and hope I turn the water on for her. Thankfully she has not yet figured out how easy it is to turn the water on herself!!
Her hair is to her mid-back, she has always had a lot of hair, and I now am enjoying getting to be more creative with it. It is lightening up quite a bit though. She doesn't always like getting her hair done, although when I show her in the mirror the end result she always says "tute." She likes to be cute. She will dance around the house to the madagascar soundtrack, and is VERY good at it :) but mostly she loves the attention she gets from us laughing and saying she's cute and funny! She is always dressing up in tutus and jewelry, or anything at the time she thinks is fancy. For example: the other night I put her in footy PJ's because our house was much colder than usual. She has been sleeping in shorts and a short sleeved shirt lately. So I think she had kinda forgotten about the footy kind. Well she didn't sleep very well at all that night, so bad in fact we ended up letting her come into our room. Well every so often she would wake either me or ryan up and say "tute" or "pretty" pointing to her PJ's. I seriously think she couldn't sleep because she was SO excited about her cool pajamas! HAHA!
Milly is very good at playing with other kids, she is a remarkable sharer and play wells with almost anyone she meets. She loves other kids, and has no problem going up to them and just start up playing with them.
Milly hates for either me or Ryan to leave her side. She likes us both to be with her ALL the time, some days she even like to take 2 baths-one with me and then another with Ryan! She is a cuddle bug too. She likes to lay on us, in the mornings she will come into bed with us and just take over laying all over us for a while. She will just lay on Ry's shoulder randomly for long periods of time, just hugging him. I hope we can both remain close with her as she grows older.
Ok. Milly absolutely loves her Nana J., probably more than anyone! She talks about her non-stop ever since this last visit. I don't know what it is, but no matter how long it's been since we've seen her last, Milly never needs time to warm up to Nana, she just jumps out of my arms and into hers--and I usually can't get her back!! She must really feel safe and loved with her, because aside from Ryan and I, there is no one else she asks this way with.
Milly is a great sleeper, she takes one nap a day, for 2 hours or so, and then goes to bed at 7 and sleeps until 7:30- 8:00. And never really complains about it, she likes night night time for the most part. She wakes us up every morning yelling 'mommy' at the top of her lungs even though we are only 5 feet away from her room. I keep trying to teach her to call for daddy but she hasn't caught onto the idea yet!
She is a really good listener, most of the time-- she is getting into those terrible two's I keep hearing about though... We have started doing short time-outs here and there and they seem to work but who really knows?? She seems to behave very well when we are out and about, it's those days when we are inside all day long that get to us both!!
She is a little kissy face!! She gives kisses and hugs out like candy, especially to her Daddy. She likes to do Eskimo kisses and Butterfly kisses now too.
I just love Milly so much, and I know that she was really meant to be apart of our family. She has the twin sense of humor (and contagious laugh) as her Dad. With this pregnancy I have been so sick and she has had to see me throw-up quite a few times, and at first I think it kinda scared her, she would cry and run to get Ryan. Ryan would tell her I was just sick but I would be ok. Well after a while of going and running off crying to find Ryan-- It changed, she now stands behind me and pats my bum and says "ok mommy, ok mommy." She is so sweet and sensitive and knows how to really make me feel better. I am so grateful the Lord has blessed our family with Milly, and I know she is going to use her strong personality to be such an awesome big sister, strength, and example in our home. :)
