Esme-isms

Esme's been talking up a storm lately especially with all the new words she's learning this holiday season.  Allen put lights up inside the house and she makes sure to remind us all that they're "dada's lights."  She loves to point to the Christmas tree and name off the things that she knows - tree, lights, ornaments, presents.  And then she points out the window and says all the neighbors names when she points to their lights.  She's a very particular girl...and also VERY bossy!  She loves to tell Allen and I what to do and she prefers when we copy her faces or movements.  If we don't, she stamps her foot and says "do it!" Esme definitely likes being in control.  She narrates whatever we're doing throughout the day and then when she doesn't know she asks us "what doing?"  She also likes to help, even if it does slow us down.  It makes her feel soooooooooo important. 

Last weekend we went to a small birthday party and midway through Esme turned to me and said, "mama, I tired."  I didn't truly know if she knew what she was saying but then just 30 minutes later she looked at me and whined "mama, wanna lie down."  Luckily we were just a few doors down from our house so I immediately took her home and put her down for her nap.  It was the most bizarre thing!

Her favorite song right now is Baby Beluga and she can sing most of it by herself.  However she prefers to dance and sing to it at the same time.  When she requests it she says "Boo-guh-la."  She's also got a huge pike of favorite books and loves to recite the words she knows when Allen reads to her at night before bed. 

Esme's getting pretty good with feeding herself with her silverware but she prefers asking Allen or I for our fork, spoon or chopsticks and then she tries to give us hers in exchange.  Thankfully she's still a really good eater.  As for potty training, she continues to go potty with all the other kids at school but she also goes in her diaper.  And just in the past week she's been requesting to go to the potty at home but only after we've just changed her diaper.  She's getting there I guess :)

Here's a pic of her visit to Santa last week.  As you can she she wasn't happy to be out of her mommy's arms :(