Our Karina is now 13 months old and an active little girl. She now crawls or walks everywhere in the house (where there aren't baby gates.) She likes following around Mommy, Daddy, or her big sister and likes getting into cupboards, drawers or anything else. Here she is dragging stuff down from the shelves in the pantry.
She's saying the word "ball" and "book" (in both English and Portuguese) and she is signing "all done", "more", "ball", "milk", "water", "please", "dog", "bird", "fish" and--very important--"eat." She's stopped grunting but now just makes a whiny sound when she wants something. She is still a voracious eater, and likes a wide variety of foods like teriyaki chicken, ham, white rice, bread, scrambled eggs, watermelon, blueberries, and cheese.
Here is Karina gnawing on a piece of bacon. (If she sees something we're eating, she'll cry and whine until we let her have a piece...even if it's something that she can't really chew on.)
Here she is trying out Eliana's rocking chair. Karina is obsessed with chairs right now, even though she doesn't really have the ability to get in or out herself.
Karina is also an avid copycat and is copying EVERYTHING she sees. Here she is trying to figure out the mouse.
When Eliana sits down to read a book, Karina grabs herself a book to "read" too.
Especially when the weather was hot, we had a hard time making sure the girls stayed hydrated. But one way of doing it was to make them share the same glass of water. When one would see the other drinking, they would copy her until all the water was gone!
Then they used the straws as toys!
Every morning Eliana changes out of her nightime diaper and into panties. Karina saw her doing that and started trying to put on panties too. Elvin thought it'd be fun to grant Karina her wish. Since then, Karina is perpetually taking underwear out of Eliana's drawer and carrying it around the house. We find random pairs of undies all over! She also tries to put them on, by laying them on her foot...she doesn't quite get it yet...
Karina has also seen Eliana use the little kid potty in the bathroom. So Karina wanted to see what it's like to sit on it.
Eliana enjoys using the Swiffer vacuum to clean our kitchen.
So Karina wanted to join in too.
A couple of weeks ago, Eliana got a pair of fake Ugg boots from her grandparents. Karina grabbed them and tried unsuccessfully to put them on. So Elvin decided to help her out.
Karina had fun walking in boots too big for her and we had fun watching her.
Karina also likes to accompany Daddy into the backyard to pick cucumbers. We've been getting about 5 a week, with the recent hot weather.
Up until last week, Karina was still taking 2 naps, but was getting harder and harder to put to down for her naps. So we decided that Karina was only going to take one nap per day. For a few days, she would go down at about 11am or noon and would sleep for about 1 hour and sometimes 2 during her mid-day nap. Right now, she alternates between just one nap and two.
Eliana is very attracted to Karina's crib. She loves climbing into it and in the instance below, piled in a bunch of her prized possessions from her own room next door. Then she made a little nest for herself and pretended she was a baby sleeping in the crib.
As soon as we hear Karina waking up from a nap, Eliana asks to "go check on my sister". And tells us (usually Emily) "don't come yet, I want to check on her mySELF". She then climbs in with Karina, and they will play and goof around for quite awhile! Emily has to run upstairs when the playing deteriorates to crying (on Karina's part). Karina has gotten to the throwing fits stage, and when things don't happen the way she wants, she will lay herself down, scream and cry, and sort of writhe around on the ground. Disturbing and entertaining...but a sign up her growing up!
Here the girls are during some happy moments in the crib together:
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