Second Year Calista Retrospective

Now that Calista is two and I've posted about her birthday, I thought I'd post a little about her growth this last year!
One year ago... Calista couldn't walk, could only say a handful of words, and still was not sleeping straight through the night without nursing. I am pleased to report what a difference a year has made! She is fantastic at sleeping (most of the time) and goes to bed/nap without a fuss (though we are still nursing right before bed/nap 1-2 times a day. If you are going to even think about judging me on that or telling me it's "gross" to nurse a 2-year-old, you can shut up now), she can tell you about her black pants or insist that she has socks, shoes and we GO!, and she can walk, run, jump, dance, spin, and fall over with the best of them.

A list of her likes and dislikes...

"Toys":

• DVDs - she loves to pull these out of the cupboard, and sometimes even put them back. And sometimes we let her watch them.
• Puzzles
• Wooden train set
• The cat

Bedtime items:

• Pacifier
• Two trout
• Alligator
• Orange blanket
• Green quilt
• (yes, she will look for and insist on all of these at bed)

Colors:

• Purple
• Green
• (or maybe these are just the ones she likes to say the best)

Food:

• Spaghetti
• Enchiladas
• Yogurt
• Cheese
• Peanut butter
• Milk
• "Cake" - which to her, is any special treat
• Fries

Animals:

• Hippos
• Lions (that roar!)
• Peacocks

Activities:

• Coloring
• Going - it almost doesn't matter where, as long as we go.
• Going to the zoo
• Reading
• Watching alphabet/numbers/colors/shapes/etc videos on youtube
• Jumping on the trampoline at her cousins' houses

Movies:

• Spice World
• Bride and Prejudice
• Pride and Prejudice
• The Avengers

Dislikes:

• Green bell peppers
• Peanuts

The year in pictures:
August 2012

September 2012

October 2012

November 2012

December 2012

January 2013

February 2013

March 2013

April 2013

May 2013

June 2013

July 2013

She's getting so big!

And, for the true gluttons for punishments, a (hopefully) complete list of all the words Calista can say at 2 years old. It appears to be about 180 words, give or take.

All done

All the colors

Ant

Arm

Baby (bee)

Backpack (bakbak)

Banana

Bath

Bear

Bed

Bee

Bib (Bah)

Bike

Bird

Blanket (blabla)

Book

Boots

Bowl

Bug

Bus (bap)

Bye

Cake

Calista (‘ta)

Camel (pahmel)

Car

Caribou (boo)

Case

Cat

Chair

Cold

Comb

Come

Craig (keg)

Crayon (cay’n)

Crying

Cup

Daddy

Dance

Dark

Dressed

Duck

Ear

Eye

Fan

Fish (ffff)

Flamingo (‘go)

Fly (ha)

Food

Fox (hawk)

Frog

Giraffe (‘affe)

Go

Goat

Hair

Hands

Hat

Heart

Hi

Hippo (‘po)

Hold

Home

Hop (rabbit)

Horse

Hulk

Ice

Iron Man (man)

It

Jacket (dack)

Jake

Jesus (hus)

Juice

Jump

Keys

Kirk

Kiss

Kitty

Ladybug

Left

Light

Milk (boop)

Mine

Momma

Moon

Numbers 1-10

Okay

Over there

Ow

Pace (Liz and Jake’s son)

Pacifier

Pancake

Pants

Pee

Penguin (penne)

Penny (Liz’s dog)

Phone

Plane

Plate

Please

Plum

Poop

Pray

Ring

Right

Right there

Run

Shirt

Shoes

Sing

Sit

Socks

Squeeze

Stairs

Star

Tail

Teeth

That

The entire alphabet

This

Thor

Thumb

Thunder (hun)

Tie

Tights

Toes

Treat

Tree

Truck (tuck)

Uh oh

Up

Water (ow)

Whale

Yes

Zebra (blrebra)

Zoo (joo)

Animal sounds:

Rawhr (lions and tigers)

Grrrrrr (bear)

‘ffff (woof/dog)

Baa (sheep)

Whoo (owl)

ASL (or Calista’s variation):

Bath (in conjunction with saying the word)

More (signed while saying “food”)

Milk (this “milk” is only signed and only refers to Mommy’s milk)

Done (in conjunction with saying the word)

Thank you

Please (in conjunction with saying the word)

Interestingly, “no” is not on this list. But trust me, when she wants to communicate no, she succeeds.

 Kyler is most pleased by the Avengers appearances of Iron Man, Thor, and (Calista's favorite) Hulk.