No Screamy Scream

Miss Sophia is busier than ever. She is ready to be moving around. She rolls several feet across the floor, and will change directions multiple times. She's got to be the squirmiest baby I've ever encountered, especially when it comes to giving her a bottle and changing her diaper. She's so wiggly during diaper changes that poop ends up everywhere; in between her toes, all over my clothes, on her legs. It's pretty gross. Yale and I have both given up trying to hold while feeding her a bottle. We have to lay her on a pillow or on the floor to give her room to roll and flail. Needless to say, milk ends up all over her face, but it's far easier than trying to hold her still on our laps. Sophia has started babbling. She says "bababa" and "mamama". I'm pretty surprised about the "ma" sounds because I thought that usually came later in the babbling stage. Maybe Sophia will say "mama" before she says "dada". I would kind of like that because it took Olivia forever to say "mama". Lately, Olivia especially enjoys pretending that we're riding in a car. She's driving and I'm sitting in the backseat in her car seat. She likes it when I scream and throw a fit about being strapped in the car seat. It's pretty funny to see how she reacts. Sometimes she tells me I have to be strapped in because, "It's kinda cold." If I really throw a fit, she'll wag her finger at me saying, "No screamy scream!" Every time Grandma Golter comes over, Olivia asks if they can go sit in her car. Sometimes they're out there for almost an hour pretending to drive around. I don't know who gets a bigger kick out it, Olivia or Grandma. Yale and I have been really surprised at how well Olivia knows and can identify letters. I would guess she knows about 80% of the alphabet. Now that's with her magnetic letter set. It's probably lower with letters in print, but she's knows quite a few of those. Yale and I were recently talking and wondering if this is a typical age to learn the letters. I know when I was a Reading Specialist, there were often Kindergartners who coudln't identify all of the alphabet, but I don't think this is the norm. Of course, as proud parents, we think she must be a genius. :)