Lila's updates!

If only I could record every single funny thing Lila does... I could have written I huge comedy book!  She is so entertaining! LOL  I also wish I could have a camera running 24/7 so we could have a video recording of her conversations and all the cute things she does all day.  She's growing up way too fast.  It's sort of depressing getting emails from BabyCenter now because they read "Your Preschooler this week" instead of "Your Toddler this week"... I remember how upset I got when they stopped sending me "Your Baby this week"... LOL  It's bittersweet!

She's been counting to 10 in English and Portuguese for a while but, recently, she started counting to 20 in Portuguese... this is how it goes:
"um, dois, twes, tato, xinco, ses, sete, oto, ovi, dez, onze, doze, teze, tatorze, quinze, deseis, esete, eoito, hehenove, inte!"  Most times she'll skip "3" and "13" and I have no idea why!  I think it's pretty funny... LOL  She also knows a lot of colors now: pink, purple, white, gray, beige, green, blue, yellow, orange, red and brown.

Lila loves to sing...she sings "Twinkle-Twinkle" (which she's singing right now but with different words...she just made them up now...).  Her other performances include: Barney's "I love you", a few Veggie Tales songs but she'll only sing them along with the Veggie Tales characters, "The Clean Up song" and others I can't remember right now.  She'll surprise us every once in a while with a new song she learned by herself.  In Portuguese she sings "Tres Palavrinhas", "Florzinha de Jesus", "Meu Barco", "Aos Olhos do Pai", and other songs from DVDs we put on for her to watch.  Then there are the songs we made up that she sings along:  I do this little singing version of "who is the most beautiful girl in the world?" but in Portuguese and she answers singing "Eeeeuuu Soooooouu!" (meaning Iiiiiii Aaaaaam!)  :-)   There's also this one: "mamae ama a Lila" (which means "mommy loves Lila") but she took it upon herself to change up the lyrics whenever she feels like it and she'll replace mommy with "papai" (daddy), "vovó" (grandma), "nenem" (her dolls), "au-au or puppy", "cookie", "dedeiê" (it's what she calls her cups)... it's adorable!   She's also started a band.  She'll sit by the toy piano or keyboard and will give me or daddy a guitar, flute or drums so we can play along.  She also learned that in order for her to play the piano, she needs to open a book and make it stand on top of her piano so she can "read" the music while playing.  Go figure!  My sister sings beautifully, her husband sings, writes music and plays a few instruments, my brother-in-law plays the piano and so does my mother-in-law, and my sister-in-law's husband plays the sax.  I think there's a chance she may pick up an instrument if I expose her to one soon enough. :)

Lila is also very polite.  Every parents dream come true, right?  She struggled with her pride and only recently she started saying "please"... we had meltdowns whenever we asked her to say "please" when she wanted something.  She constantly says "oots, sorry" (that's right, it's OOTS not OOPS...)  She has dropped the "no way" (or at least, it's not being said as frequently as before) and now when we ask her if she wants something she says "no, thank you much".  :-)  I love that! 

A few weeks ago, daddy took over the task of giving Lila her bath.  I've found he does a much better job at it.  Probably because he doesn't stress out as much as I usually do.  Now she takes her clothes and diaper off by herself and even attempts to enter the bathtub by herself which I HATE because I'm always so scared she'll slip and fall.  Ms. Independence here also tried to use the toilet by herself a few weeks ago and managed to fall in... LOL... I caught her just before she could seriously hurt herself, but her butt got wet anyway.  Lila's also very into trying on all her clothes and shoes, sometimes, all at the same time... needless to say, there's a daily clean up going on in her room.  BEDTIME:  90% of the time, daddy is the one that takes her to her room at night.  They sing together and my favorite part of the evening is when we put Lila down and we say: "let's talk to Jesus and thank Him for today?" to which she replies in a sweet voice: "yaaaay!" Jesus, I want to love to pray that much.

Aguilar and I are still amazed at how much Lila changed.  She used to absolutely HATE the car seat and car rides.  I'd always ride in the back and had to have a whole plan set up to entertain her but now she loves it!  Sure, having a DVD player in the car helps out, but she actually enjoys looking outside.  She'll constantly waive to people in traffic and say "bye! I'll see you".  So cute!  She loves going out now... her first words in the morning are usually "car" and "outside".  She'll get her purse, put on her sunglasses, put on shoes and grab her toy keys, then she comes to me to say "bye mommy, I'll see you" and then she grabs a doll, hops on her play car and waves bye-bye. :-)

Her eating habits have been weird... she loves her sugar, like me.  A few weeks ago, I gave Lila her first drumstick ice cream... She tasted it a couple of times, then closed her eyes and said "thank you for i-cream, amen"! :-)  If you think you wouldn't survive on tomato and french fries, you're wrong.  Lately, that's pretty much all Lila wants to eat.  We actually just experienced a meltdown here because she wanted Dora popsicles...it's 9 a.m.  At least she didn't ask for help from The Wonder Pets.  That's right... the other day, we were grocery shopping and Lila asks to get out of the shopping cart (as usual)... and I say no a bunch of times. Out of the blue she starts with "help, Ming-Ming, Tuck, Linny, Help!"  My daughter, ladies and gentlemen! 

About being a big sister:  I think Lila is still clueless about this.  When asked "where's the baby" she lifts my shirt and points to my belly but now when I pull my shirt up and say "look, it's Lila's little sister, Mia" she pulls my shirt down and says "night-night baby"... I'm not worried, but I think it's pretty funny!

I tried to make it as short as possible but, like I said, Lila has been up to a lot lately.  We'll be back soon!

Be blessed everyone!