Update on Lydia

Lydia's favorite phrases:
"What are you doing?"
"What happened?"
"You do it."
"Open it."

She loves to dance (as usual) and listen to "zuzic" (music). Sometimes I play the keyboard or guitar and she enjoys dancing to it. The moment I stop the song she says "again."

She's getting more and more stubborn, like when she doesn't want to wear a particular item of clothes (I found her the other day in bed without her shirt on), but she's also more obedient about some things. I think that comes from more understanding of what we are asking of her. She usually eats the food we give her now.

We just started putting her in a real bed. We're trying to move her out of the crib so that Tyler can occupy it soon. She really likes the idea but has an amazingly small amount of self control. We give her three tries to stay in bed and then move her back to her crib. The first several days she couldn't even stay in bed for more than 10 seconds. She always heads straight for the door or the light-switch, which are dead give-aways. I figured that after the first day of putting her back in the crib (accompanied by much crying and screaming) she would know that we are serious and stay in bed the next time. But that was not the case. Even when she knew exactly what was coming, she still got right out of bed. I even laid on the floor one time to help her stay in bed, and she would sit up every few seconds to start climbing out of bed.

On about the fifth day we forgot about her and thought we had put her in the crib. In the morning I went to get her and was shocked to find her playing with toys rather than in the crib. Since then she's been doing pretty well in the bed (most days).

Here's something a bit scary (oh, that's also a word she likes to use now, "scary"). One day I found her in the kitchen cutting a grape on the cutting board with a paring knife. We're more careful about putting the knifes away now.