Precocious is an understatement!

I am continually amazed by how aware and engaged Court is on a daily basis. She's like this miniature adult with stubby legs. She doesn't stop talking from the moment she awakes in the morning (very casually saying "MOM!" into the monitor to get my attention) to the time she goes to bed and says "night, night". Things have changed from her merely mimicking (sp?) us to actually knowing what she's communicating. It must be a great relief for her to be able to tell us what she's feeling or what she wants, though there is some frustration when we still don't give her everything she wants. She looks at us incredulously as if to say "but I said PLEASE!"

She knows most of her body parts, she counts to 3 on her fingers (she's actually copying a Baby Einstein video...she has no idea what counting means), she pretends to read books out loud in this matter of fact tone of voice, she points to pictures on the fridge and identifies me, Casey and my parents (papa and nana). My husband farted last night and Court laughed and made a raspberry sound with her mouth. That was a first also, but I'm not quite as proud of that one! I'm starting to lose track of all the cute things she's doing. I might have to post more often.

My parents took her to Chuck E Cheese for the first time on saturday and she had a blast! Apparently, she dragged my dad around by the finger to all the different toddler rides and was in love with the Chuck E Cheese puppets performing on stage, pointing to the them and yelling "Mira, Mira" (Spanish for "Look"). What a character! My mom said she is constantly being stopped by strangers who tell her how breathtakingly beautiful she is, especially her big blue eyes. It's strange because Casey and I aren't exactly extraordinarily goodlooking people, so I guess our genes meshed pretty well! She got all the traits from my husband that I wanted her to get (and I few personality quirks I hoped she wouldn't). I don't believe anyone really wants their child to be miniature versions of themselves, at least I don't, so I'm glad she's a good mixture of us both! Can't wait to see what develops next!