Kissing and Flossing and Brushing

These days, when we say "can you give mama/papa a kiss?", she'll give us a sweet kiss on the cheek or on the mouth, along with the sound effect "mwah, mwah". When she's playing with her Little People figures, she'll also have them kissing each other. It's so fun now that she's at the stage where she understands and can respond to things we say. I'll say, "go give that to papa', "go find papa" or something like that, and she'll run over to him.

Whenever I'm flossing my teeth, I always have to get an extra piece or two for Leah and it becomes a big sit-down affair. She loves to pretend to floss her teeth and started this quite a while ago, actually. But nowadays, the funny thing is, is that she tries to floss our teeth, too. We sit down on the floor, and she goes right up to us and is in there with both hands trying to floss, quite determined to figure out what she's supposed to be doing. It's cute because she'll be in our mouths looking really serious,but then look up and give us a big smile.

She definitely does not like getting her teeth brushed, however, and would prefer to be the one brushing our teeth. It's always a struggle, even with the two of us holding her down. But with almost a full set of teeth, there's no way around it. Pretty soon, I'll bring her in to see a pediatric dentist for a quick check to see how her teeth are doing and how well we're doing with the toothbrushing.

She can accurately point out all kinds of things now, when we say "where are your......?" So, when asked, she points to her nose, toes, eyes, mouth, tongue, teeth, fingers, hair, belly button. We're still working on finding her ears, though.