Mommy In Training

Mariska has been so cute this week! This has been one of those weeks where they just suddenly grow up really quickly... she's started doing her puzzles all by herself, when normally we have to show her where each one goes. She's drinking from a "big girl cup", and even handled eating 'unthickened' chicken noodle soup by herself. There is a major noticeable difference in her ability to communicate, both in understanding what we say and telling us what she wants. And she's started doing a lot more pretending during her play... she was cradling her baby and says, in her own way, "You're scared? You're ok, you're ok" as she rocked the doll and started going, "sh, sh, sh, sh" like Brent and I do with her. While I was doing dishes she was in the living room playing, when I peeked in to check on her she was "changing her baby's diaper" and asked me to help...