Quirks

Eliza is getting to an age where she wants things done her way... and of course she wants it NOW! We're trying to pick our battles and letting the random, harmless stuff go. Like every day last week she wanted to wear a towel wrapped around her, on top of her clothes. When the huge towel inevitably fell off while she walked around, she was furious! This week she's become obsessed with her 2 baby dolls. She carries them everywhere we go and she sleeps with them. She also nurses them. So cute. She wants to "dip dip" all her food in condiments. Yesterday she ate a whole waffle dipped in both peanut butter and bbq sauce! Her hair looks adorable in pig tails (and she finally has enough hair for pig tails) but 90% of the time she immediately rips them out when I fix her hair. She insists that most everything is yellow, although she can also say brown, blue, green, etc. She counts to herself when she climbs stairs (S taught her that), but she only says "1 2 1 2" over and over, occasionally throwing in a 9. She adds the word "the" in front of everything. Last weekend she looked at the window and yelled "the papa the papa!" when my parents arrived. She's fearless, jumping off the side of the pool, the couch, anything. She'll go down almost any slide, no matter how big. She's also pushed the emergency button in an elevator recently, almost got us kicked out of the library for being too noisy and threw her bouncy ball into a fountain and screamed for 20 minutes saying "ball went bye bye in water!" over and over. This of course was after I specifically told her not to throw it and she grinned at me and did it anyway. Ah, she's not even 2 yet. Luckily for us, she's adorable most of the time, if a bit um, demanding.