Things That Will Too Soon Be Forgotten, Part 2

I wonder what we've forgotten already...

1. Otter's favorite place to sit is on top of the refrigerator.

2. For a while, when she laughed, she used to stick her tongue out.

3. Now when she laughs, she wrinkles her nose. My friend calls it the "I smell something bad face."

4. She has a hard time eating anything with texture. She just doesn't like it.

5. She can flip her tongue over, and does it often.

6. If she really doesn't like a food, she'll make herself gag. At least one time, to the point of throwing up. It's extremely, overly dramatic.

7. She's recently learned to shake her head no. It's her favorite new non-word.

8. If she's eating something good, she'll make a "Nyum, nyum" noise. I wonder if we can consider it her first word.

9. She loves strings and adores playing with her stuffed giraffe, Guiermo's string tail.

10. She loves paper - crumpling, folding or just holding. She destroys magazines, holds labels tightly.

11. She's begun sharing. This is usually done by shoving whatever she wants to split with me into my mouth, as forcefully as possible.

12. She adores, and is fascinated by the dog. She'll look for him, babble to him and try to feed him her crackers. When he licks her hands, she shrieks.

13. She loves the "Shaken Baby" game. Hold the baby in your arms, and shake lightly but quickly while calling out "shaken baby, shaken baby, shaken baby!" My FIL is alarmed. Having written this, just waiting for Child Services to show up at my door.

14. Otter loves to hang, swing, be thrown and turned upside down.

15. She loves high-pitched noises like "Wheeeee!"

16. We often have shrieking contests.

17. If you laugh to hard at something she did, she may take it personally and cry. We've all offended the Otter this way.

18. She hates getting any part of her face cleaned.