month 22

• Rosie's vocabulary continues to grow rapidly. Most recently we caught her saying "oh gosh" and "shoot" when a chair fell over. Rosie loves singing and has learned more lyrics to songs (like key words in the Lê family song, You Are My Sunshine, If All the Raindrops, Open Shut Them, With My Little Hands I Go ClapClapClap, the Banana Boat song, Happy Birthday, to name a few)
• Bedtime routine: Bedtime looks like this: 1. Milk, 2. Tooth-brushing (while Mommy plays piano), 3. PJs, 4. Storytime. During storytime all three of us curl up in Rosie's reading cove and Rosie picks the 3 stories for the evening and which of us should read it. It is a really special and sweet time. After that, she pulls her Winnie the Pooh music box, and then lets us put her in her crib. She still wakes up in the night (anywhere between 2:30 and 5:30) but falls back asleep within 20 minutes. The last couple days she joins Mommy in bed for the last leg of sleep, 6-9. DaddyO is excited to join in on the sleeping in on the weekends.
• Rosie has gotten used to the new place. When we walk or drive up to the house she declares, "HOME!"
• Rosie has started to remember books and finishes lines. Current on the lineup: Pout Pout Fish, Ten Little Fingers Ten Little Toes, Orange Bear Apple Pear, Press Here, Spots Feathers Curly Tails, Old Bear (3 of which are from cousin J, thanks!).
• "Come on, come on." When something exciting is near, Rosie loves to include us on the fun. Her face lights up, motions to us with this extremely cute hand gesture, and says, "come on come on!"
• DaddyO routine. First thing Rosie asks for in the morning is her Daddy. When DaddyO comes home growling and chomping on the hunt for cutie babies, Rosie yells, "Oh no! Oh no!" and runs into Mommy's arms pretending to take cover though she clearly loves it since she always has the biggest cheesy grin on her face.
• Teeth! So it turns out the choppy naps and snottiness may have been attributed to three new canine teeth poking out. Rarrrr!
• Rabbit food. We did have a spinach-eating siting the other week when Rosie said she was a rabbit and downed 4 spinach leaves. Exciting! Though the following times she said the same thing, the leafy green didn't stay in her mouth for very long. But still, an improvement!

That's all for now!