Yaya Dane Turtis

It's time for another of those... 

"What I don't ever want to forget about you" posts...

Photo Cred: Whitney Putnam at WP Portraits 

Oh Zella, you me crack up... 

You are now almost two and a half years old.. You are full of life, and I am amazed how much you learn everyday!

You are very friendly and talk to anyone who will listen. You introduce yourself to everyone, "Hi I Yaya (Zella) then you introduce me saying, "Dis Yaya's Mommy" Most people can't figure out your name when you say it because you say a "Y" sound for the "Z" and "L's" in your name. You also tell everyone, "Nice to meet you." -Even if you have met them before... 

You are very polite and use your, "Tank you" "Pleeze" "You're Weltum" and "Cues me" all the time. You will also tell me, "Sorry Yaya's fault" even if it wasn't your fault at all. 

You're favorite shows to watch right now are: Justin Time, Dragon Tales, Bubble Guppies, and Daniel Tiger. But you also enjoy Curious George and Chuggington. 

You have gotten to be a stinker about eating, because you refuse to sit in a booster seat, and it is impossible to keep you up to the table. You are just too busy to eat... 

You still LOVE Kitties!!! and you want to be a Kitty Cat for Halloween, but you also love: Puppies, Horsey's, and Fish. Bamma recently gave you a small barbie sized cat that you take with us everywhere. You show everyone and tell them, "My Bamma dave it to me." This kitty also helps us get you to do things you won't do for us, if the kitty wants you to do it, you will!

You also still love books. You have most of your favorite books memorized and can help Mom read them. Two of your very favorites are your Zoo book and Princess book.

When you get frustrated you say, "Ahh, Tom on." You will also say, "So Close" when you are close to doing something. 

You love to dress up, and this usually includes a tutu. Whenever you hear music you will tell us, "It's time to dance." and pull us up to hop around with you. 

You continue to love music and you are a very good little singer. You like to hum, and sing everything you do. You will be painting, and while you paint you will be singing about what you are doing... You are very good at making up songs as you go. 

Your favorite songs are "Twinkle Twinkle" and "Rock a Bye"

Right now everything is Yaya's... Yaya's house, Yaya's Bamma, Yaya's Kitty Cat, Yaya's car... and so forth. Also when we ask you what your babies name is your response is "Yaya's Baby" or What is your Kitties name? "Yaya's Kitty" 

You also talk about yourself in the 3rd person all the time... and you are learning to say your full name... "Yaya Dane Turtis" 

Your favorite number is 7 for some reason... You count, 1-2-7... no matter how hard we work on the number 3! You also love the letter B, and go around saying B7 a lot. We joke that it sounds like you are playing battleship:)

You are still learning to share... and you have picked up spitting, so we started putting "hot stuff" on your tongue... this was not fun for you, and you have learned to stop spitting pretty quick.

You did so well transitioning without a binky. Sometimes you struggle with naps, but have gone right to bed since the first night without it. 

You might not be able to tell by this picture, but you do not like to cooperative for pictures at all...  

Gosh we love you Zella. Thanks for being YOU!