Pretend Play

I have to say it is amazing to see your child grow, learn, imitate and explore.

Today as we were getting ready to go, S3 and I were hanging out in the living room and she brings me 2 Weebles and a Weeble car, I think the first time she's ever paid attention to the car. I have her set the car on the ground, hand her a weeble and instruct her to put it in the car, same with the 2nd weeble. After the Weebles are situated I tell her to push the car and she does! Pretend play with a little instruction.

Just a couple of minutes later she is given her stuffed puppy dog and walks over to the couch where I am sitting and without any prompting runs the puppy along the edge of the couch saying "woof, woof." She has been working on animal names and noises and I'm sure it has been assigned to this stuffed dog, but she got the dog and started to pretend play with it all by herself!

An update on the big bed
S3 is still sleeping in her big bed and has only fallen out once, but went right back to sleep after P1 rescued her from the floor. Last night she decided to climb out of bed instead of going to sleep, but was able to get herself back into bed, curled up on her pillows and went to sleep when no one came to rescue her from her room. Nap time today was a slight struggle after about 10 minutes of being in her room she came to her bedroom door and started banging on the door. Since we already had food in the oven we brought her out to eat. After eating she went back to her bed which she then climbed out of, but again was able to climb back into bed and take a good 2 hour nap. Tonight after a very tired fuss she went right to sleep!