All Things Elina

Toddler Days!

In no particular order and updated often:

1. Daddy's doing a great job teaching Elina some Norwegian - she knows about 40+ words!!
2. She still loves toast with peanut butter or some waffle/french toast for breakfast
3. With daddy she eats cheese and bread, actually, she'll eat anything daddy eats!
4. She loves Dora
5. She knows a few words in spanish- thanks to Dora - who, did I mention she really loves
6. She's going on a vacation after Christmas - someplace hot like "Cuba"
7. Her best friends are Dean and Connor, she has a few best friends at daycare, Madison and Ronan, and mostly has boy friends.
8. Daddy picks her up and they take a bus home together, mommy drops her off at daycare.
9. She doesn't like to talk on the phone
10. She walks to daycare now - no stroller
11. She moved from her toddler bed to a big bed, a daybed from Ikea.
12. Colors...hmmm...I think she's yanking our chains...she goes through all colors of the rainbow sometimes, and 75% of the time gets the right color...yes, she's yanking my chain
13. She wears some size 4
14. She no longer fits size 24 months :(
15. She loves Japanese food - well sort of - not the sushi in particular - but the edamame beans (soy beans), miso soup, teryaki chicken, rice, veggies, etc.
16. Oh my gosh, she's detail oriented, likes to have things in a specific way - i.e. take off bottle lid at bedtime and place it in a quite specific spot on her bedside table!
17. She still hasn't got her colors down packed.
18. I asked her the other day as we were getting ready to go out "what's that noise?", (and the funice just kicked in - turned on ) to which she replied .. "its the furnace..." - like Hello!!!
19. Fine tunes into sounds and her surrounding - looking at birds and spiders and towers and such!
20. Straightened my hair the other day, she asked if she could touch it, which she did, and then said I like it - amazing eh? The processes in her little developing brain!!
21. If the old wives tale of...measuring at 2 years of age and doubling that to be an approximate height at her peak, Elina will be 6 feet tall (186 cm) The myth says a bit more for boys and a little less for girls! Wowzie!!
22. She's finally getting two more teeth, bringing her entire total to 14 teeth!!
23. Her red wagon is been wonderful to transport her back and forth to daycare
24. Her cousins in Norway sent her a watch, a cow watch which she lllllllllloves
25. She's got long bangs, and only occasionally lets me put ponies or barrets in her hair
26. At 2 years old she still has only 12 visible teeth - she's got a 13^th poking through the top, one of those eye teeth - Ped. says not to worry as it could only indicate that they will only fall out later and for us, only 12 teeth to try to brush!!
27. She calls a muffin a "fuffin"
28. She calls her daddy - Herman sometimes, and I quickly correct her
29. She loves icecubes!(broken small enough for her to eat them safely)
30. She still walks on her tippy-toes
31. Her first complete sentence - "Mommy I need a pooooon" (spoon).
32. She makes circles in the elevator when we're going up or down
33. She wiggles when she walks and runs
34. She head butts the cats to say hello - just like cats do to humans
35. She says oi!!
36. She signs the "change diaper" sign - helpful!! (taps diaper area)
37. She repeats daddy's "yea yea yea"
38. She puts hands on cheeks and say "Oh Nooooo!!"
39. She still helps setting the table
40. She still takes 3 bottles a day am, at nap at daycare and to bed! - hey...milk, isnt' it good for you.
41. She loves to brush her teeth, calls the toothbrush - "bee" "bush"
42. She loves to hug trees
43. She stops to smell the flowers
44. She loves Dean
45. She loves Raffi!! - Baby Beluga, Banana Phone and "I'll always come up with I love you...yaya ya yaya yaya yayaya"
46. When she hears a song she likes, she'll listen to it again and again and again!!
47. Sleeping wonderfully!
48. Hard to hear at difference between - please, cheese and juice
49. She loves her Dadddeeee - even calls me (her mommy, Dadddeeee!
50. She loves her gramma!!!
51. She doesn't like candy!
52. She travelled well, added Cuba to her passport (already contains Norway)
53. She's a little chatterbox, saying the cutest things!
54. She's still a very picky eater!
55. She loves her green veggies - broccoli, spinich, beans, and asperagus
56. She loves mommy's supper juice - organge and grapefruit mixed
57. She loves broccoli - its the stem first then the tree part
58. She loves a bit teaspoon of peanutbutter
59. She's growing up tooooo fast!!!
60. Her mommy fell last week and twisted her ankle - right after dropping her off - thank goodness!
61. She's fully recovered from the gastro thing..
62. When we pack (on backpack) from daycare to subway station - she likes to touch all the "trees" (honestly...she says and makes the sign for trees then wants to actually touch them.
63. She said a 3 word sentence the other week - "Mama, more cracker"
64. Her staple diet - crackers
65. She still doesn't like meat
66. I have tricked her into eating small pieces of ham and liver paté if you could believe
67. She eats with a spoon and a fork.
68. She alternates between showing us animals in books by making the appropriate sound or actually naming the animal - One day, Ruff Ruff, one day Dog!
69. She still goes to bed quite easily, eat, video, play, tubby, bottle, dance, lights out!!
70. She's a fantastic subway rider
71. She sings and finishes the ends of songs. Mom - "Twinkle Twinkle Little..." - Elina "STAAR!"
72. She's a year and a half - 18 months!
73. She says "aash" for something yukky (norwegian phrase)
74. She sometimes says "nei" to any question
75. She says "no" to any question
76. She says 3 word phrases, i.e. "mama more cracker"
77. She finishes the following...Old McDonald had a farm, with E,I,E,I,O
78. She put out her own light when its time to go to sleep - putters in her bed, in the dark for about 15-20 minutes before falling to sleep
79. She's eating alot better
80. She's ticklish on her belly
81. She sleeps now consistently from 7:30 to 7:30, give or take an hour or so at the end
82. She still is a climber
83. She knows when she's not supposed to be doing something
84. She knows cat, cow, sheep, dog, fish sound
85. She talks - babbles her own little language
86. During tubby, she doesn't mind the water, blows bubbles in the water and lies on her belly and back occasionally!
87. I measured her at 82 cm today (she grew 6 cm since her 12 month appointment)
88. She said "nei nei nei" (Norwegian for no no no!!)
89. She takes directions easily - "go give this to Pappa" and she does
90. She's sleeping through the night better and better - had a little adjustment with the daylight savings time fall back in time
91. She lost little tickle bunny - it was left on the subway this week
92. She walks down the stairs (holding onto railing) but in the standing position (not crawling down the stairs)
93. She still has only 6 teeth
94. She's doing a few more baby signs - "thank you" (hand from under chin and opening towards you), "bird" - (kind of like making a little beak with your thumb, index and middle fingers at your mouth), "cat" (outlining whiskers) to name a few
95. She llllllllllllloves her Ticklebunny!! (she's got both - the little one travels!)
96. Her favorite funny sign is "crazy in the head" - it should have been "hat" in sign (tapping the head") but she says it sometimes at the oddest times -it just fits!
97. She's said many many words, numerous to mention - she's a little copycat!
98. She did the motions to "You Do the Hokie-Pokie"
99. She's Ojibway and Norwegian, guess that makes her "Ojiborwegian"
100. She's beginning the "jiggerish" talk
101. She threw her first temper tantrum in the mall today!!
102. She liked the sound of fallen leaves under her feet
103. She's got 8 teeth - in varying degrees of growth (and that I can see)
104. She's continuing with the jibberish talk
105. She uses sign language
106. She loves dogs - which she calls puppies
107. She loves to dance to music
108. She still loves Baby Einstein!
109. She still wakes once in the night - sleeps through the night once a week (thank goodness)
110. She's stood for 31 seconds the other day - still not walking!
111. She's still a bit of a picky self-eater
112. She's not starting wholemilk yet, perhaps in a few more months!
113. She's eaten eggs, peanutbutter, strawberries without any problems
114. She loves to make spittywet "raspberries"
115. She swam in the north sea
116. She has a passport
117. She is taking swimming lessons
118. She loves the water
119. She did the "sign" for Milk
120. She loves to dance to music
121. She loves to sing to music
122. She loves to feed herself
123. Her favorite food is cheese
124. Her other favorite food is cheese!
125. She's hit her head so many times from her "cruising" (walking along furniture)
126. She loves to picnic - and play with her stroller
127. I'm sure she said "cat" today
128. She's love to copy what your doing - today she was clucking her mouth
129. She gives the cutest kisses
130. She's understanding "No" - she's been pulling at the cable and telephone cords on the wall
131. She loves to look at herself in the mirror
132. She's learning to walk with her new walker toy!
133. Her first sign was ... "more" and "together" and she reacted first to "milk"
134. She uses baby sign language using american sign language
135. She stood alone while I was at work
136. She still loves being with her friend Connor
137. She still loves Baby Einstein tapes...
138. She's got the cutest little fake laugh
139. She's cruising - and has bonked her bean (hit her head) several times after falling
140. She crawls up a storm
141. She still takes one bottle in the middle of the night - sigh!!
142. She crawls - on all 4's
143. She signed "bubbles"
144. She pushes the buttons to operate our elevator (knows #4)
145. She recognizes areas now..i.e. the park, then gets all excited
146. She loves the swing
147. She loves birds, dogs, other kids
148. She babbles and sings - ALL THE TIME
149. She loves to stand in the crib
150. She crawled on Mothers Day and her 9th month date
151. She seems to like feeding herself - more chunky food
152. She's back to not eating well again
153. She's beginning to love cereals!
154. She still hates fruit!
155. She still loves sweet potatoes, everything I give her must be disguised in sweet potatoes
156. She loves the swing in the park
157. She likes to share her toys with other friends, but mostly like her other friends stuff!
158. She says "mama", "dada", "baba", alot of gurgling and baby noise...
159. She still rolllllls, but has been tucking legs under belly but not going much further than that
160. She rollllllllls, anywhere and everywhere.
161. She's tried peas, beans and loves pears!
162. She doesn't like carrots anymore (always comes back up and I have stained two favorite shirts in bright orange)
163. Her favorite toys are the Luckson Cuddly Rabbit, the Lamaze Bright Friends Collection: Freddie the Firefly, and Lamaze Bright Friends Collection: Lamaze: Trotter the Pony
164. She loves to sing! Shania Twain is her favorite singer...really...I'll show you sometimes how she reacts to her "UP" song
165. She's gone through to squash and carrots - loved them both!
166. She started her first "solid" food - sweet potato today - Feb 26, 2004
167. She attend baby & mom yoga
168. She's signed up for Salsa baby (& mom) dance lessons
169. She loves playing with her feet!
170. She has started eating cereal (January 31, 2004)
171. She has a new car seat (grown out of first one) - an Eddie Bauer 3-In-1 Car Seat (good till 80 pounds) (hers is blue and black)
172. A second tooth is slowly coming through her gums
173. She sits up unassisted, still a little floppy but finding her balance...slowly!
174. She has a new stroller - a Zooper Air Walk
175. She has her first tooth - Dec 26
176. She razzes (burring wet sound with lips)
177. She has and uses a Jolly Jumper
178. She almost sits up on her own
179. She sucks her thumb - it used to be all 4 fingers but she's decided on just one thumb!
180. Her nick name is Ellie, or Snippa, or Princess Ellie or Snippa when she's fussy!
181. Elina means..."Shining light"
182. She points with her pointer fingers - really
183. She burps like she means it
184. The nurses called her "Blueberry" in the hospital - they were in season and she was bluish (due to bruising) when born!
185. She likes her gums rubbed (early teething I suppose)
186. She laughed out loud
187. Her eyes will probably be brown
188. Her hair is brown
189. She's bottle fed
190. She can lift her head slightly and move it from side to side! - just like the book says she could do at this time
191. She grunts when waking up or just as she's falling to sleep
192. She squeels after eating
193. She hiccups
194. Her belly button is an "outie"
195. Her belly button turned into an "innie"
196. She needs a napkin or tissue when eating, she likes to drool a bit
197. She likes music - Mozart for Babies especially
198. She doesn't mind noise while sleeping
199. She talks up a storm - favorite saying..."a gaa blue blug"
200. She ate every 3 hours until 10.5 weeks!
201. She sleeps in her own room
202. The walls in her room are Blue - Williamsburg Blue by Benjamin Moore
203. She likes to sleep in onesies (tshirt)
204. She doesn't mind car rides
205. She hates car rides
206. She is getting better at liking them again
207. She likes her cats Peps and Daisy
208. She's getting a second chin
209. She has a small third chin
210. Her daddy speaks norwegian to her
211. She already has her first boarding pass - flight from Thunder Bay to Toronto
212. She makes 100's of faces
213. She was born 3 weeks and 4 days early
214. Tries to sit up!! - LIke she's doing the 100's in pilates!
215. Pulls herself into sitting postion with help of mom or dad (holding up hands)
216. Pulls herself into standing postion with lots of help of mom or dad (holding up hands), then being supported with leg or knee (not as "contorted" as it sounds)
217. Recognizes her mommy and daddy's voice and turns toward that sound
218. She's found her hands and finds they taste better than any stuffed animal or baby rattler available
219. She's finally content while awake - loves to lie down and talk with us and herself
220. She easily gained the "birth weight" within the 2 weeks she was supposed to
221. She's tripled her birth weight with four months!

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