She is so manipulative in the way she asks for things. She will put on the sweetest little voice and say things like "want to go outside with us?" or she will come into your room while you're still in bed, climb up on you with her face half an inch away from yours and ask with a big smile "want to go watch Daniel Tiger on the TV?". It is almost impossible to say no.
Basketball is the sport she is most aware of and if she sees me putting on running shoes or anything remotely athletic, she'll ask "you play basaketball, mommy?"
One morning when I was laying in bed feeling terrible, due to the pregnancy, she looks me in the eye and says "Don't be sad. Get better". Then a minute later she declares "Mommy better!"
If she can't get at something, she'll say "I can't reach it. My hands are big!". She always says it a little sad/questiony/ and matter of factly at the same time.
Sometimes uses "gurrr-riffic" as an expression in every day life, thanks to Daniel Tiger.
Lyla was in bed one night with her door closed and Todd sneezed from the other room, and we hear Lyla yell from her crib "Bless you!".
We were driving in the car and she exclaimed, "Look at that clouds! Up on the sky!".
Lays down on concrete steps, "That's cozy"
Lyla can identify pretty much all her letters (capitals, that is). She loves to sing the alphabet song too, but she always skips a chunk of letters.
Loves to say "Mun more time." very matter of factly when I tell her that we are done with something. I always thought her tone was funny, and then one day I realized that she was imitating me when I tell her she has one more time.
Lyla is great at shapes, and also at identifying them in real life. For example, she will lay on her back at church and start listing off, "rectangle, circle", because she sees that the lights on the ceiling are shaped like that. She was holding two crayons and they made a "V" shape in her hands and she said "Oh, a triange!". She pointed to my glasses and said "mommy's glasses....rectangle" to one of the lenses. She likes to sit in the bath when the water level is right and lower the knee on a straightened leg and try to get the water to make either a diamond or a circle on her knee as it goes down. She seems to have a very practical grasp of how shapes translate to the real world. I am impressed!
Likes to declare herself as "Super Lyla" and even referred to me as "Super Mommy" the other day.
On a less cute note, Lyla has become obsessed about doing everything herself. All we seem to hear these days is "I do it!", "I can do it", or "I want can do it!". She tends to freak if you don't let her try herself, and I thought it was bad, but over the weekend it got about 5 times worse. The melt downs after not letting her do things that she really can't do (like zip up her dress) are epic. And seem to happen all day long. We are trying to stay patient and figure our how to navigate this phase. Just when we think we're experiencing the terrible twos, something else happens that lets us know we haven't seen anything yet!
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