So my sister did this great post entitled, "All About Anya" that was great to read cause it really gave you a sense of what she is like, and the stuff you don't know when you live a thousand miles across the country from one another. So, I'm going to copy her great idea and do one about Dylan so ya'll can have a sense of what she's up to these days. Enjoy!
Foods–we are very lucky in this area. Dylan is an eater and has been for life so far. Even though she'll try anything once, she does have favorites. She loves cheese in any form. She frequently asks for cheese throughout the day, and for breakfast for the last week or so she's eaten a piece of cinnamon raisan bread with cream cheese on top every day. She will eat vegetables (especially fond of frozen peas - don't even have to heat them up - just frozen!), but LOVES fruit. She will ask for peaches, pears, oranges or MANGOES a lot. Usually I don't just have a whole stock of mangoes lying around, so I have to offer her replacement options.
Drinks–she mainly drinks water and will ask for it once in awhile. The funny thing about her saying water is it used to sound like "wawa" and that was also what Lara sounded like. Now, she can say "wawer" and somehow she's also changed Lara's name into "wawer." I guess she didn't realize she was right on that one. She won't drink plain milk, period. But I do occasionally get her to have around 1-2 oz. of chocolate milk per day, if I'm lucky. When I'm watching Caroline, she always wants to drink juice, cause Caroline will always have a juice cup for the day.
Books–Dylan loves books. That is the one thing she will do by herself - read books. Last night I made dinner and for 45 min. she sat in her room and read books to herself in the corner by her bookshelf. I kept going in there to peak on her and she literally was sitting in a SEA of books...probably about 60 or 70 books strewn around her. Her favorite books at this moment (it changes a lot) are
The Witch Casts a Spell (a halloween book sung to farmer in the dell tune),
If You Give a Pig a Pancake,
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie,
Where's My Teddy, and
It Looked Like Spilt Milk. Check them out. I tried to get her to read a book in front of the video camera, but she got really shy and was hiding her face from the camera and wouldn't blab on and on like she usually does. I'll have to sneak up on her sometime. Here are 2 photos from that sea of books experience yesterday...
Get You–This is Dylan's favorite new game in our new condo. She mainly does it with Jason, and whenever we speak of daddy throughout the day while he's at work, she almost always then asks, "Gitchu?" This game involves you chasing Dylan around the whole condo (mainly through the long hallway) saying, "I'm gonna get you! I'm gonna get you!" And she giggles and runs away as fast as she can and then eventually lets you catch her...followed by, "More! More gitchu! More gitchu!"
sitting on the front steps of our new condo building, on moving day 2 weeks agoIce Cream–Dylan really loves ice cream and thinks about it all the time. I've only personally given it to her maybe twice EVER, but she has had it a few times at grandma Karen's house and I know a couple times with grandma and grandpa Cindy and Clark too. She totally now associates ice cream with "grandma." The two words are basically synonymous. Whenever we speak of one, the other one is mentioned shortly after. We were reading a book where there was a picture of ice cream. I wait and let her say that word of the book usually, but yesterday instead of saying ice cream, she shouted "Grandma!" It was a hilarious exchange of words in the story, which had nothing to do with grandmas. :)
Colors–Dylan loves identifying colors. She occasionally does get them wrong, but most of the time, she is right on and it never ceases to amaze me. We'll look out the window and there will be a red car on the street below and she'll shout, "Red! Red car!" Or she'll identify your shirt, her shoes, colors of animals in books, just about anything she sees, the first thought to her is to say it's color. Then if she sees two of that thing in the same color, she'll say "two blues!"
Airplanes–If you've been around Dylan lately outdoors, especially where we live so close to Midway Airport, you'll know how much she loves finding airplanes in the sky. I swear, she can hear them, see them and shout out AIRPLANE! faster than you will ever have a chance. She can see the smallest pinpoint of a jet far far away, and we'll be looking in the sky forever just to try to say, Yes! There's an airplane! I wanted her to be an airplane for halloween, but with the move, no time to make a creative costume. So, she's another flying object, a bumblebee instead. Dylan and I are going on an airplane with my aunt Jeanie in about a week to go to Colorado and visit Lara, Steve and Anya...I'm so curious what she'll think of the experience at 18 months and since she's so obsessed with airplanes.
Well, that's good for now I guess. Thanks for reading and glimpsing what Dylan is like these days.
This is Dylan's surprise face - a face she'll do if you ask her for the "Surprise face." I personally think it's a classic. And I finally got her to do it for a camera - my cameraphone...hence the quality of the picture.
