Lordy. I have not signed in for ages because I literally could not remember how to do it. But I was determined, because today, Beanie turned 20 months old. She calls herself "meme" and "meanie".

Since I've been away, I've been:

1) back in Jamaica during their Carnival. Beanie has started calling the airport "Mama."
2) moved offices (new HQ is in a big fancy office, I have my own cubicle, the desk is already messy as hell)
3) went to a multitude of easter egg hunts
4) we started to have wee wees in the big potty.
5) Beanie started saying "no." And discovered the wiggles. Simultaneously.

and not just "no." But the cutest little "no" ever. "noh." And she says Nunu. Finally. FINALLY. She finally "uses her words" before she actually shoves her hands under my shirt and rips my underwire apart. All this, and I'm trying to wean her too. She gets night nunus.

If you get her on the potty in the morning, and wait a little, you will be rewarded with the cutest little tinkle time. She will clap for herself. She still likes to doodle out on the patio, sitting on the sliding glass door ledge, in the sun.

We brought in the travel crib and set it up. So far, so good for the most part. We get about 3 hours before I go to bed to hang out and watch CSI together on the couch without the baby, but we both get up to "check on her" a lot. We bring her into bed with us when she wakes up, but just having 2-3 hours? So great. And she's just totally precious when she's sleeping.

She broke the keys off our laptop. PF still needs to fix T, Q, and Control.

You can get her to go through the whole alphabet if you say "ah-ah-A! buh-buh-B!" and so on. She also says "six" and Circle.

Circle means circle, but it also means twinkle and star.

For example, "circle, circle, circle, circle..." sung to the alphabet song means she wants to hear Twinkle Twinkle. She still asks for Ring Around The Rosie with "ashes ashes".

The other day I was putting her in her carseat, and she suddenly started yelping "I do circle! I do circle!" Her first sentence by the way.

She flipped out when I said "No,sit down", and she was straining to reach the seat below her. I looked, and there was a fairy wand with a star on top. I gave it to her. She settled down.

I nearly cried. Her first sentence, I understood it, and we had a happy ride home.

Sigh.

Beanie, I love you.

Old photo, so cute: