Ava at 26 months

1. Ava's big news this month is that she started preschool. She goes Monday & Friday for 4 hours. She loves playing with the baby dolls, the kitchen and seeing her friends. She also enjoyed going school shopping for new clothes & shoes.
2. Ava has noticed my growing belly and started lifting my shirt and asking to see her baby sister.
3. Ava still wants to name her sister "Coco" and says she is very excited for her to arrive.
4. Ava asks questions all day,
-"Mommy, who is that?"
-"What ya doing, mommy or daddy?"
-"Where is daddy?"
-"What ya doing in there?"...if I'm in the pantry or laundry room
-"Can I see that?"
-"Where did you go?"
-"Let's go somewhere today!"
-"I want to go to church"
5. Ava says "Hey!" now. "Hey Mom!" or "Hey, my milk" or "Hey, I need a snack"
6. She likes for us to sing to her and requests twinkle twinkle cd in the car.
7. She is good at helping me pick up her toys when we are finished playing.
8. She prefers for me to sit with her and play rather than read a book while she is playing, so she will try to pick me up off the couch and say, "Mommy needs to sit right here" and once I sit on the floor she begins to hand me toys.
9. If a toy won't work, she says "new batteries, please"
10. Ava is very polite with "please, thank you, thanks, bless you." Here teacher even commented last month that she told her "Thank you!" for changing her diaper.
11. Ava is POTTY TRAINED. She decided at 25 months that she wanted to start using the potty. We bought big girl panties and did a 3 day boot camp.....which turned into a 7 day boot camp. It required a great deal of patience and she had many accidents....(at end of day 1, all 12 pair of panties were in the washing machine!) It took us about 10 days to really get it down, but now she's a champ. She still has an accident every couple of days, but does a really good job overall. She gets two pieces of candy for pee and a very small piece of gum for #2. She gets very excited about her potty successes!!
12. UPDATE: AVA IS NO LONGER POTTY TRAINED. About 10 days ago, Ava started going #2 in her panties every single morning and having #1 accidents throughout the day. So, I decided she wasn't ready and have put her in pull ups. She now goes in potty about 50% of time and in pull up 50% of time. I bought her an Elmo Potty DVD and Elmo Potty book and am hoping she will be interested in trying again soon.