Layla's latest

You know, I write so much about Layla on here because it is the easiest and most fun part of life at the moment. The rest of life isn't as fun or well-ordered. You may be laughing that I am calling a 19 month old "well-ordered". She really is:

I was giving her a snuggle and a bottle in the living room chair yesterday when she noticed the rubberband/cabinet door safety latch wasn't fixed properly. She crawled off my lap and tapped at it until I fixed it.

If the gate at the top of the stairs is ever left open, she points and grunts in a girly fashion.

She will spend a good 10-15 minutes trying to put a diaper on her little dolly. I sewed/cut a diaper triangle out of felt and attached some small velcro dots so she could open and close it. She LOVES to try and do this.

She loves to clean. We have a cleaning lady that she knows really well because she took care of Grandpa every day all day right towards the end. Anyway, Sherry has taught her how to go around with a little cloth and dust. She did all the shelves she could reach in the living room the other day.

Her latest exploits:
Tom took her to the park and was SO surprised when she started to climb the jungle gym all by herself and do the slides on her own! That is a lot of stairs and climbing! He was a proud papa.

She knows most all her letters now. I have no idea why she is learning them so early....we certainly aren't pushing her or anything. She even started to spell with mom the other day. Of course she doesn't know what she's really doing, but she wanted to copy grandma (=

She likes to put on her shoes - she can't quite get it to work yet, but she'll shove her toes in there as far as they will go. She also "opens" her socks for me to put on her feet. I'm trying to find every way she can start to help because she is getting so independent.

She plays hide and seek with just about everything - even Tom's stomach. She'll hide something and put her little hands up "where? where? over there? NO! over there? No!" Tada, she pulls it out. It is SO hysterical to watch her do this over and over and over again.

Anyway. That's all for now. I'm getting tired all of a sudden. must g o t o b e d