Terrible Twos!

I know Natalie is only 16 months old, but I swear she is entering the terrible two's!  She gets so upset about everything that we misunderstand, or if we tell her no, or anything.  Of course, so does Alli so maybe it's just inherent of my children!

We may be in for an interesting year with all the temper tantrums occurring in our house!  Crazy kids!

Smart Little Cookie

Since Natalie still isn't clearly speaking many words, I always think she's still the baby blob of old.  But she's really smart and knows what's going on.

The other day when we were changing her diaper, she wanted to look at her number poster.  So I asked her where the butterflies were.  And she put her hands on the butterflies and said "bu.."  Then I asked where the frogs were and she pointed to the frogs and laughed.  Asked about kitty cats, turtles, dog, bunnies.  She knew them all!  I was pretty impressed.

And this morning, she woke up early and wanted to watch TV.  (That is communicated by pointing to the TV and saying "T?"  I said no, it was too early and I didn't want to wake up her sister.  So I said "Natalie, why don't we read a book instead.  Go get a book."  She toddled over to the stake of books in the living room, picked one out, and brought it back to me.  We sat on the couch and read together.

It's really impressive how much she understands.  Her vocabulary is sorta there - beginning sounds of a lot of words.  Too bad almost all of them start with "b"!