26th month

Here's an update from July, Willow's 26th month:

- Willow is getting better and better at communicating, getting the majority of her points across on the first try. She's seeming more and more like a little girl all grown up.

- Willow continues to learn more letters of the alphabet and sings the ABC song pretty clearly these days. She's showing evidence of having quite an abstract little mind so far. We were eating curly fries and she held one up and said "See" (one of her favorite phrases these days), but later held another one out and said "Another C." Some of those curly fries sure did look like Cs! She's also held out a broken olive from her burrito and said "C." When eating Cheerios one morning, she looked at their shape on her spoon and said "flower."

- Willow is soooo close to being potty trained. She'll stay dry in her diaper all day if we remember to take her about every 2 hours, though she's not yet telling us when she needs to go potty (besides poops). I think that going potty on the airplane is a good sign that she's over her fear of public bathrooms!! She still has a fear of the air driers in public bathrooms though.