26 Months....officially VeRy LATE!

I am officially more late than EVER on my monthly Callyn post, but.....I guess as the saying goes "better late, than never." This month has been SO fun. Besides what I have already posted about Thanksgiving, Tech game, trip to the zoo, chuck e cheese, etc. here is what has been going on:

• I gained a new highly efficient office helper;) This girl still loves her electronics and will jump on any chance to play on the ipad, itouch, computer or watch a movie. Her favorite show is Blue's Clues. Although we only let her watch usually an episode in the morning and one at night, she will bring you the remote through the day and say "blue." I love how she sings and dances along with the music and says "bye Steve" at the end!
  

• Instead of ALL the extras, this year we JUST decorated our Christmas tree and hung stockings. No santas, no garland on the door, just a tree. And boy has Callyn loved this tree! *and climbing
  

She has also enjoyed our little people nativity scene and our advent calendar. She loves to find baby Jesus, mary and joseph.




And the FAMOUS football hat. Ever since the tech game Callyn puts this hat on every opportunity she gets! One morning she was sitting in her bed reading and already had it on. She also has semi fallen in love with Elmo. She doesn't have many elmo toys, but at her friend hannah's she spent most of her time loving and kissing on "melmo."




See what I mean about the hat??! One of our ALL TIME favorite moments has been watching callyn and her "Tree Routine." We have a remote control that turns the tree lights off and on. She loves it so much and will clap and yell YAY for herself. One night I filmed her on my phone doing just this. The next night she found the video.....set my phone on the table and acting out the whole thing play by play with the video. So cute! Went something like this....play....pick up clicker...turn off lights.....set down clicker and wait.....pick up and turn on....yell yay...drop clicker....pick it up and set it just right next to the phone....run to the tree and yell into it..the same thing every time. We wear IN TEARS laughing so hard!




We have been singing lots of songs, including Away in a Manger. This is "the little Lord Jesus laid down his sweet head" part. She has been doing the motions of so many songs for so long, but now she can either sing the tune or fill in the words!


It has been colder so we have gotten to bust out with cold weather gear and boots..so fun! Not sure if I ever mentioned it hear, but we were referred to ECI after my concern of Callyn's lack of speech. She was assessed and they said exactly what I knew....she understands far about her age (knows her letters, sounds, colors, shapes, etc and can follow directions) but is a little delayed on expression. She we will be doing therapy 2x a month! Excited to get some ideas to help! Right now our main goals are to get more spontaneous words and for her to use please and thank you! She has really started doing a lot more in the past 2 weeks!

And the other stuff: wears a 2t, still in diapers and a size 5, size 7 shoe, LONG blondish brown hair, one nap a day in her big girl bed (which often results in shutter slamming and LOTS of toys in the bed!) sleeps from about 8-8, loves to laugh and is increasingly becoming a funny, funny girl, loves "bubbles" bath time, starting to pretend cook and play with her babies, and SO much more!