Maya at 17 Months
28 August 2011
I think this is one of my favorite months of Maya yet. She has reached a lot of milestones in a span of a few days. It's amazing how one day makes a difference.
She loves to cuddle and hug now for longer than a couple of seconds. She puts her arms around me and squeezes when I ask her for a hug. It warms my heart every time especially when she does this without being asked. When I'm having a bad day, she stays close and cuddles with me a lot more than usual. She mostly kisses my face and pets my head, too. She is so attuned to me that she picks up on my emotions a lot; it's scary.
One time while I was cleaning her up in the shower, she headbutted me hard on the chin - and it hurt a lot. So I kind of screamed "auw!" and cupped my chin with my eyes closed. It really did hurt that bad. When I opened my eyes, she gave me this look of such genuine concern I didn't know children her age are capable of expressing that I felt my heart squeezed I almost cried. I hugged her then and said that Mommy is alright. She looked up at me with the same expression that I couldn't help it; a few fat tears rolled down my cheeks. She understands more than I think she does. She's my little grown-up baby.
She is even more talkative now. She has recently learned the word 'flower', only she calls it 'souwer'. Since we have a lot of flowery things and plants around the house, we constantly hear that word, like every five minutes when she isn't distracted by something. She also says it a few times before she falls asleep. I think it's her favorite word.
The other words she says are water (wally), Maya (manny), Mommy (sometimes mama or manny) hug (haka), love (av), ball (bal), side to side (sa to sa), calm (ka), wow, sleep (slapuh), eat (eten), kai lan, hi, juice (sap), milk (pap), up (appa), no/nee, yes (ja), cap/cup (kappa), shower, (shawah) iPad (apad), shampoo (sampoo), girl (guh), hello kitty (I can't spell how she says it; she says it very fast), bird (ba), cat (ka), apple, shoe (sa), baby (bibi), ice (ijs) and a few more I can't remember right now.
'What's this' is her favorite thing to say, too. So when she sees something she doesn't know or just anything really, she asks "what's this" while pointing at the thing with her cute chubby finger.
Her favorite food is spaghetti or anything pasta that has tomato sauce. It's our go-to food when she gets picky or doesn't eat enough. But basically, she eats anything we eat. If we serve her something else than what we're having for dinner, she won't touch her food at all unless it's pasta.
She loves to play with her tea set, building blocks, books, and hand-me-down mobile phone and iPod which she loves carrying around in her little tote bags. Tonight, she got her Daddy to let her play with his netbook. I think he might let her keep it too. She already has him wrapped around her pinkie.
She is growing up so fast. She is getting less like a baby. There are times when I scold her for doing something she wasn't supposed to, she argues back to me in her own baby language. I can't help but laugh because she always looks so serious, so I always engage her even though I don't understand a thing she says. She probably said, "I think my Mommy is nuts" and I agree with her all the time.
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