Dennis Sheng-Nian Wang 19th & 20th Months

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December 2008 to February 2009 - Dennis continues to grow and explore, point and touch but still not talk. She's signing a bit more now, adding Tree, Dog, Book and Cat to her signing vocabuary. She'll talk to her self and have conversations with her toys and food and bugs, well pretty much everything she interacts with. Occasionally we'll hear what sounds like words like "day" or "turtle" or "ice" but it's not repeated.

On the manual manipulation front, she's getting better at solving puzzles and playing with lacing toys. She rotates the pieces to get them to fit, and is good at putting two halves together. She likes pulling her pull toys around downstairs, many a evening can be found us doing laps around the kitchen island pulling a dog, a caterpillar, a snail and a helicopter. Dennis is also very adept at playing with Tinkertoys and Lego Duplo.

For Christmas Dennis's Xiao Gu, (Aunt Peggy) got Dennis a set of Ed Emberley drawing books, and Dennis's taken up art using stencils and pencils and markers and crayons and finger paint

We went on several local excursions. We went to the Houston Zoo on Dec 29, 2008 and Dennis enjoyed look at the fish, frogs, giraffe and elephants. On Dec 30th, we went for a walk to a local park, Frankie Carter Randolph Park, and wandering onto the nature trail via a short cut, (this by the way is where we went wrong) We managed to complete the loop, but not without scrambling over and around fallen trees that haven't been cleared since Hurricane Ike.

In February, Winston's Best friend Roger and wife Michele (who's an artist, check out her work) can to visit on their cross country jaunt. They brought their ferrets, and Dennis enjoyed playing with Habibi. We also spent an afternoon at the Bay Area Park.

We celebrated Valentine's day by exchanging presents and going out to Olive Garden for lunch. Daddy had a lot of work relating to a "Flow Control Valve" and actually went to Florida just before I turned 21 months old.

We've been using the Wii Fit to store Dennis's weight. At the end of February Dennis was 31" tall and weighed 19.4 lbs.

Dennis is into stuffed animals and figures, like other kids might be into dolls. She points out there body parts, eyes, ears, mouth, feet, etc. She will try to move their arms and legs if possible, (lego giraffe and zookeepers for example).

21st and 22nd Month photos are next.