This is such a fun and at the same time challenging age! Peyton is so interactive and funny and makes us laugh all of the time. But she also definitely has an opinion and says "no" quite often. Sometimes I wonder if "yes" is even in this girl's vocabulary! On just about a daily basis I hear "no crib," "no clean diaper," "no read books," "no bath," "no cheese" (or whatever food I have asked her if she wants to eat. She doesn't like brushing her teeth these days and is very opinionated as to which pajamas she wants to wear at night. Oh, and she has a definite opinion on who does what around here---"daddy do it!" or "baby do it!" Most nights she wants Matt to bathe her and do bedtime but every once in awhile she will ask for me to do it.
On the fun side of things, she is super girly and I LOVE IT! She loves carrying a purse, talking on her pretend phone, wearing her sunglasses, having tea parties, and playing with her babies. We have started drawing outside on the driveway with chalk and this has quickly become one of her favorite activities. She also enjoys coloring inside and playing with stickers. I can't figure out yet what I think she is going to be into as she gets older, but she absolutely LOVES music and always has. She loves dancing and is constantly asking for me to turn music on for her. She has also started trying to jump although most of the time she can't quite get both feet off of the ground. She likes to do forward flips on the floor which makes me wonder if she would like gymnastics. She gets super excited to see both sets of grandparents, and is constantly asking to go to GP and Granddad's house or call Nana and Pops on the ipad. And speaking of ipad...this is something that she has started playing with that I have mixed feelings about. Apparently Matt showed her how to "play" Angry Birds one day, and I use the term "play" very loosely, and now she wants to play "birds" ALL of the time whether it's on the ipad or one of our iphones. She knows how to unlock the screen on our phones and can open the app for Angry Birds and several other games although she can't really play any of them by herself. A few other games that she likes to open on the ipad/iphone are a paper toss game where you try to throw a piece of paper into a trash can, a golf game where she likes to watch the demo at the beginning of the game, and a sounds game where three items are shown and you hear a noise and then touch the item that corresponds with the sound (this game she can actually play and I justify it by fact that she is kind of learning something right!?!?)
