Jones Ka: 2nd Summer

Lizzy's 19th month was a big one. Early in the month she switched to one nap, which we've been a little scared to do, but she handled it like a champ. She is also completely off the binky now. On a possibly related note, she is getting so strong willed and will throw some pretty good fits. Not sure they are tantrums but she can be unreasonable for 20-30 minutes.

She also doesn't forget. If she wanted something before she went to bed last night, she will wake up asking for it this morning. The good news is that she can now communicate what she wants really well with words. It seems like she is saying 2-3 new words every day and she is starting to combine 2-3 words together which is awesome. Some of her favorite words are:

Chur - My turn, which is a good start on her learning to share.
Wawa - Which now mostly means pool/swimming. Every time we walk into our garage she grabs her tube and runs down our driveway towards the pool.
Popu - Popcorn
Traberr - Strawberry
Apu - Apple
Upu - Up (almost indistinguishable from Apple lately)
Down - Man she loves this word
Datu - Vacuum**
Aiya - Lizzy's favorite movie now is Tinkerbell. We discovered that she believes her cousin Ali is Tinkerbell, so she calls Tinkerbell Aiya now.
Nun - Run (she says, "Nun, Nun, Nun" as she runs everywhere")

**She loves playing with vacuums. We have a tiny vacuum that is "Lizzy's vacuum" and she loves to help mommy vacuum. But then we have my mom's carpet cleaner in the back closet. So I've had to explain that she can't play with "Grandma's vacuum". She's only just started to use two words together so we were really suprised the other day when she went in the back closet and said bapa datu. She really knows that one is grandma's vacuum!

Lizzy's favorite foods are strawberries, Tinkerbell fruit snacks, popcorn, mac and cheese, chicken nuggets, popsicles and ice cream cones. She is loving the summer. She loves to run and play outside and is thrilled to spend lots of time with her cousins. We are glad to have parks, Trafalga, Thanksgiving Point and the pool so close. It's been an awesome 2nd summer for her. Lizzy also loves talking on the phone and Skyping with her grandparents.

Eating chocolate waffles and strawberries

Riding her new horse. Must be an action shot, it's so fuzzy.

She was probably saying "Chur" at this moment (asking for the camera)

BYU's #1!

Lizzy loves our BYU shirts because they all have a circle or an oval with a Y on them which she calls a ball. It got to the point where she would wake up in the morning and only want to put on one of our "ball" shirts, so Janell had to take her to the BYU Bookstore to get her a blue BYU shirt that looked just like ours.