22 months

It's been another big month in the life of Lizzy as she has now hit 22 months old. The last month we have been settling back into life after our big family trip and been spending lots of time with family due to the death of Shawn's grandma.

We really enjoyed watching General Conference this time with Lizzy. We watched all 4 sessions at home and Lizzy was so good during it all. Though it isn't really exciting for a 1 year old, Lizzy stayed in the room and played quietly during all 4 sessions and even managed to pay attention to a lot of it. She loved the songs and started to recognize the Prophet. While she was busily playing we were surprised that she seemed to be paying some attention to the talks because anytime a speaker mentioned something she knew from a Primary Song she would start doing the actions for that song.

Lizzy loves coloring and can consistently tell us when something is purple or pink, though she is still working on perfecting her other colors. She also loves counting things though she really only knows one and two.  She just says two, two and you know she's counting.  One exciting thing is that she has now learned how to steer her Tangled 4-wheeler which she got last Christmas.

Lizzy is just starting to call animals by their names rather than making their sounds. Also, every time she sees animals now she calls them either Mommy or Baby, depending on their size. She has seen one or two animals she's thought are daddies, but most are mommies and babies. She is really talking up a storm lately and most of what she says is now in sentence form. She says things like (note how most of her sentences start with "I want"):

• I want that
• I want go there
• I want hold it
• I want show mommy
• I want pay (Meaning to check out at the grocery store; or, can we leave this store now?)
• I want pink jacket
• I have two
• That's a horse
• I did it
• It breaked
• She is also getting better at saying Thank You, Sorry and even tries to say Gesundheit every time we sneeze.
• Cool - she uses this just like we do when she finds something she thinks is cool
• She also knows many of the Disney princesses now - Sheepy (Sleeping Beauty), Rella (Cinderella), Bow (Belle), Pow (Rapunzel), White (Snow White), oh and somehow she says "Ribbit" for Tiana!

Here are some recent pictures:

Watching the Prophet speak during conference

At the Thanksgiving Point Gardens to celebrate Grandma Bev's Birthday

Lizzy loves driving anything with wheels

Celebrating Aunt Stephanie's Mission Call to Brazil @ Rodizio Grill

Getting bundled up to go get the mail (one of Lizzy's favorite activities)

At the pumpkin patch with her cousins.
Dad gave some awesome wheelbarrow rides!

Love this - Lizzy pushing Max

We went on a special train ride in Heber.
Here is Lizzy giving the Engineer her ticket

Playing on the locomotive

Posing with Mommy and Daddy

They loved riding in the wheelbarrow

And driving the tractors

Playing in the hay

Doing her best to drive the tractor

Lizzy loved helping us clean out the pumpkin

This picture was taken last year. Lizzy doesn't really know her great grandparents that well, but she loves seeing this picture and always asks to see it. It's a fun memory of her and Great Grandma Jones.