Personality wise, Stella is a big comedienne. She is like her Dada in that way. We had been calling her a comedienne for awhile now. A few months back, Mama asked Stella whether she was an American and she replied by saying "No, I'm a comedienne". If she does or say something to make you laugh, it just lights up her world and she will repeat it over and over again.
She loves being silly...again, because it makes people laugh. For example, in the series of pics below, she thinks it is funny and silly to wear her pajama top on her head and pretend that it is a hat. Silly girl!
Besides her Dada's comedic skills, she also has her Dada's impersonation skills, especially imitating accents. Months ago, Dada was going around repeating phrases from one of our favorite TV shows, The Flight of the Conchords, in a New Zealand accent and Stella followed suit by saying "How about you Jemaine, do you have a rapping name?" in a very good New Zealand accent as well.
She is very observant and is very difficult to trick her these days. For example, now that Stella has started drinking juice, we wanted her to be drinking Juicy Juice which is 100% juice as opposed to the Minute Maid Berry punch that Mama drinks which Stella has taken a liking to. So when we gave her the Juicy Juice, she wouldn't drink it insisting that she wants the "red juice", meaning the berry punch. So Mama told Dada to mix the berry punch juice with the Juicy Juice in 1:1 ratio and give it to Stella. Stella drinks the juice mix and insists that she doesn't want the "purple juice" but wants the "red juice". Dada says to her, "this looks like red juice to me, so drink it". Stella looks at him and says, "Well, this looks like purple juice to me."
She is also a very stubborn 2 year old who has entered the "terrible twos" with a vengeance in the past few months, giving Mama heartburn on a daily basis. But Stella wouldn't be normal if she didn't exhibit these typical two year old behaviors. Sigh!!!
She loves her brother to pieces but sibling rivalry has started as of last week. Now that Desmond is more interested in playing with toys, whatever toy he happens to be playing with, Stella wants it and just steals it from him, even though most of these toys are toys she has outgrown a long time ago.
Stella has adjusted fairly well to preschool considering she only goes twice a week. She no longer cries in the morning and when Mama goes to pick her up in the afternoon, she is no hurry to leave. Her teacher has said that she is more comfortable in her new surrounding and is talking and interacting a lot more with the other kids. But Stella and the other kids still do a lot of parallel play which is age appropriate at this stage.
Some of her skills:
She is very observant and is very difficult to trick her these days. For example, now that Stella has started drinking juice, we wanted her to be drinking Juicy Juice which is 100% juice as opposed to the Minute Maid Berry punch that Mama drinks which Stella has taken a liking to. So when we gave her the Juicy Juice, she wouldn't drink it insisting that she wants the "red juice", meaning the berry punch. So Mama told Dada to mix the berry punch juice with the Juicy Juice in 1:1 ratio and give it to Stella. Stella drinks the juice mix and insists that she doesn't want the "purple juice" but wants the "red juice". Dada says to her, "this looks like red juice to me, so drink it". Stella looks at him and says, "Well, this looks like purple juice to me."
She is also a very stubborn 2 year old who has entered the "terrible twos" with a vengeance in the past few months, giving Mama heartburn on a daily basis. But Stella wouldn't be normal if she didn't exhibit these typical two year old behaviors. Sigh!!!
She loves her brother to pieces but sibling rivalry has started as of last week. Now that Desmond is more interested in playing with toys, whatever toy he happens to be playing with, Stella wants it and just steals it from him, even though most of these toys are toys she has outgrown a long time ago.
Stella has adjusted fairly well to preschool considering she only goes twice a week. She no longer cries in the morning and when Mama goes to pick her up in the afternoon, she is no hurry to leave. Her teacher has said that she is more comfortable in her new surrounding and is talking and interacting a lot more with the other kids. But Stella and the other kids still do a lot of parallel play which is age appropriate at this stage.
Some of her skills:
- Stella loves numbers and can count up to 100...her attention span permitting. She also recognizes 200, 300, 400, etc. and 1000, 2000, 3000, etc.
- She can recite her alphabet (which she's known since 18 months or so) but can now recognize words like "and", "the", "off", "on", and "to" and will point them out to us when we read books with her.
- Stella has known her home telephone number since the age of 2.
- Can sing lots of songs...Twinkle, twinkle, little star; Mary had a little lamb (her favorite); Row, row your boat; Baa, baa, black sheep; Patty cake; Sunny days; You are my sunshine; Elmo's world, etc. just to name a few.
- As noted before, she loves to do puzzles. She does all six of her 36-piece jigsaw Disney princess puzzles now with ease and about a month ago, she completed the 48-piece jigsaw puzzle that had 4 princesses on it.
- She loves to color and her coloring has improved greatly over the past few weeks...she is staying more and more within the lines when she colors.
- Her language skills are good and getting better and better each day. She regularly speaks in 8-9 word sentences. But most often, instead of making statements, she forms her sentences into questions because most of the stuff we say to her are questions. For example, instead of saying "I went to school today", Stella will say "Did Stella go to school today?".
- She loves being outside, whether at the park, going for walks. or simply blowing bubbles.
- Her favorite color is red, favorite animal is the giraffe, favorite TV show is the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, favorite food is chicken tenders; favorite snacks are goldfish crackers or pretzels, favorite candy is M&Ms, and her favorite princess is Snow White.
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I feel like I know Stella better now! Loved the San Diego pics, esp Stella so sad to leave the beach :) I liked seeing Smitha and David photos!!! Desmond seems so easy-going. When are you all coming down to NC? I can't wait for intern year to be over!!!
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