In recent news:
1. Cousin Claire: Reese's first cousin arrived early on Wednesday night, April 28th. Reese got to visit her the following Sunday and spend some time at Aunt Kate's house while Mommy tried to help Aunt Kate out. At first, Reese's opinion of the baby was similar to that of the family cats: inspect briefly and then ignore. After a few days around the Claire, though, Reese was ready to help Claire by giving sharing her toys, holding her, and always keeping close tabs on her blankets pacifiers and diapers. (Mommy sterilized quite a few pacifiers that Reese got a hold of and decided to decorate her toes with.)

3. Numbers, Letters, Shapes, and Colors: Reese loves counting items. She can count to four without help, but needs some prompting to get to ten. If I start counting and stop anywhere between one and ten, she can fill in the next number. Reese tries to read everything she sees. She understands that print has meaning, and she'll point to signs, posters, magazines, and anything she can get her hands on and start making up words and stories she sees. She even points to the words as she "reads" along. Thanks to a talking shape puzzle from Grandma Righter, Reese also loves shapes. The other day she told me that the button on the dryer is a diamond (it is), and that a piece of craft paper at story time was an oval (it was). In the color department, we're moving beyond blue and Reese now recognizes other colors. For some reason purple and orange are consistent hits, while yellow is still a mystery.
5. Potty Time: While we were visiting Aunt Kate and Cousin Claire last week, Reese announced that she wanted to go poopy on the potty. I wasted no time with her request, although sitting on a big potty was a little scary and Reese wasn't able to go. regardless, Reese is showing more interest in going poopy in the potty. We had several successful attempts yesterday and a few more today. This morning she even stopped me at the park to tell me she had to go and she went in the adult potty at the park grounds. Her timing is still a little off, and she seems to start going before stopping to let us know--but it's an encouraging start. And, yes, we're rewarding her with lots of praise...and jelly beans. She gets VERY excited when she sees that she's made a deposit in her potty and will run around clapping and cheering afterward. So far, potty time requires a lot or props. Sometimes it's books, other times it's toys, but without fail Ellie and her blankie have to be there. I'm not sure it's modesty, but she insists on covering herself up with her blanket when she sits on her potty. Whatever it takes, I guess...
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