Oh, this girl.
She starts each and every morning by crawling into my bed and saying repeatedly, Peppa Pig TB? Peppa Pig TB? Peppa Pig TB?! because she wants me to groggily hand over my iPhone so she can turn on YouTube Kids and watch looped episodes of Peppa Pig.
She is passionate about food and eats roughly three times what Jude eats at every meal. And yet, she stays at a very shrimpy size, wearing 9-12 month clothes. She is so tiny, but is a good talker. Often when we are in public, people will hear her talk and be startled since it seems as though full sentences are coming out of a 10 month old!
Ella was a very opinionated and strong-willed child, even as an infant, but it was paired with her timidity to take on the world and cautious decision-making. Cecilia has got all of the strong-will of her oldest sister, but backs it up with brute force and volume. If she wants something she will plow-through, climb over, push down, or go around whatever is in her way. This past week she has begun physically fighting with Jude when they want the same toy and she has spent many 2 minute stretches in Time Out for hitting.
She is the funniest mix of sweet and demon. There is no in between. One moment she is speaking to you in the smallest, gentlest little voice. She will put her hands on either side of your face and give you repeated kisses followed by "I luv voo". She loves cuddling stuffies more than any child we have had and likes to snuggle with 3-4 Beanie Boos at a time,
The very next moment she is diving off of furniture while screaming Weeeeeee! and knocking over Jude's tower of blocks so he cries. She loves grabbing things from his hands, not because she wants them, just because she wants to take them from him. She has a deep, throaty, Mr. T laugh that is hilarious and it doesn't matter how many times she gets knocked over while jumping with the big kids on the trampoline, she just gets back up.
She takes one nap each day after lunch (at the same time as Jude) and recently I have been trying to wake her from that nap since she got into the habit of waking up exactly at midnight every night and keeping us up. She is not a very good sleeper and wakes multiple times each night. Sometimes she just talks a bit and goes back to sleep, but other times she cries and cries.
She has not completely warmed to Nursery in church yet. She goes in spurts of playing happily and then noticing I am not there and sobbing for a while. The nursery leaders have figured out that if they wait through the short, crying jags she just gets through it on her own and goes back to being fine without me coming in.
The instant we get into the car she requests Big Block Sing Song and sings along in the cutest way to her favorite songs. When she is joyful, all the world is joyful! She is a burst of sunshine and energy and life. She wants in on all of the shenanigans, no matter what they may be.
I had a rough go of adjusting to the idea of this little surprise baby that came into our life. Last week I was playing with her and realized we would be absolutely lost without her. She is so very adored. She is a strong, wonderful, little person who is making our family better and is going to make the world a better place. We needed her.
