You are now 2 and ½ years old. You are so articulate already. The speech pathologist, who lives down the block from us, says you are really advanced for your age. She didn’t need to tell me. It is obvious. You are able to say full sentences, you make abstract observations (that’s too far, too loud, …etc.), and you are much more interested in social connections than your peers. You say hello to everyone who crosses your path. Often you engage the person in conversation and you’re just a sweetie-pie. People love you and are surprised by your communication skills and your lack of fear of strangers. I’m a bit concerned about that, actually. Living in America, in a big city and all.
People have always responded to you. Even when you were only a few months old. Every time I left the house with you I would get stopped at least once or twice by passers-by who needed to share with me how beautiful you were or how much you looked like the Gerber baby. ;)***
You love your baby-sister Nayla.
The day she came home from the hospital was the first time you ever said you LOVED someone, even though I had been telling you about love for a long time. I would always say .. “Mommy loooves Maia. Daddy loooves Maia. Grandma loooves Maia. “ etc. and you would always, although very wholeheartedly, reply: “ Maia liiiikes Mommy, Maia likes Daddy etc.”.
But when we brought Nayla home from the hospital and we let you hold her, you seemed to struggle for special words which would adequately describe your exhilaration, I suppose, and you finally said, “Mommy.... Maia looves the baby sooo much!”
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You are a real girly-girl. I don’t know where you got it from but the stereotypes are true for little boys and girls, I tell you. All the boys your age prefer to play with cars and trains and such. All the girls prefer more “girly” things to play with. You, however, are more feminine than most. You have had a shoe-fetish since the day you were able to take a step. I am not kidding. You walk without the slightest bit of trouble in any and all high heels.
