Rebekah Update: 23 Months

Rebekah has been busy this past month with the task of simply growing up! We are constantly amused by her word choices and her antics, and we are constantly challenged in knowing how best to raise and train her.

I couldn't resist posting the photo below, even though it is a little blurry. It's blurry because she was so excited and couldn't stop moving! Ah yes, our little sanguine. =)What is really amazing to me is that although she is SO busy with life and loves to have fun whenever and however she can, she is also very meticulous! When she is playing with certain toys, she has to have them arranged in a specific way. For example, when she is playing with her plastic animals, she categorizes them according to type of animal. In the picture below, you can see her playing in her room. If you look at the right side of the picture, you will see several small containers perched on a small shelf. I don't understand her reasoning for organizing them the way she does, but she certainly understands it, and knows immediately if something isn't the way she left it!

Hanging out with Aunty Marie and Uncle Ilung (whom she calls "Uncle Goon!!")

"Big Sister!!"

Yes, Dora the Explorer is still a huge part of this household! The other day Rebekah was playing alone in her room, and I heard her exclaiming "Big sister! Yay!" There is one Dora episode where Dora becomes a big sister, and that (as you might imagine) is the favorite these days. The photo above shows Rebekah in her "Big Sister Dora" pose.

Reading is ever a favorite, and Green Eggs and Ham remains at the top of the favorite list - especially when Daddy reads it to her. Nathan has taught her where the words "Sam I am" or "I am Sam" belong on each page. Now when we read it to her we pause before those words, and she will say them herself. She gets a big kick out of that!

Rebekah definitely has a mind of her own. She has opinions on everything - from which color plate she eats from to the type of shoes she wears when we are going shopping. Her favorite colors seem to be blue and pink, as most of her coloring sheets tend to be dominated by those two colors.

Our big little girl.... One evening Nathan and I were sitting in the living room with Rebekah (well, she wasn't sitting) just hanging out as a family. She decided that we needed our footstools, so she brought our footstools to us, made sure we put our feet up, and then went to get a footstool of her own. The end result was the picture above - she's sitting exactly like both Mommy and Daddy were sitting. =)

Rebekah is definitely growing. She often eats almost as much as her Mommy does - especially at breakfast time. She has been known to eat 5 small pancakes in one sitting! She now weighs about 29lb or 13kgs. Thankfully she is quite independent and doesn't insist on being carried when we go out. I am carrying enough extra weight these days!

Rebekah seems to have put the alphabet on hold this past month so she could work on her numbers. She is still gradually picking up on more letters, but it is numbers that she is really excited about right now. In just a few days she went from only being able to count to 3 to consistently counting to 11. She is taking a break at 11 right now, but she is VERY proud of that 11!

The Saji Thomas Family plus Rebekah

Nathan was getting ready to take a picture of this family when Rebekah realized that a photo was being taken without her. Horror! She quickly ran to make sure she didn't miss out!

Our little gypsy

Rebekah seems to be the unofficial mascot of our Young Adult Fellowship. All of the young adults enjoy watching her antics, and she is usually more than willing to put on a show for them! In the picture above, one of the girls had put a scarf on Rebekah, and she was cheesing for all of the camera phones that came out for the occasion.

"Sleeping" with Daddy

Rebekah loves it when we lay in her bed with her. The other day Nathan was helping her get ready for bed and he laid down on the bed. She promptly climbed up and laid down on TOP of Daddy.

Little Miss Mischief

Rebekah definitely has a mischevious streak in her. I guess that's unavoidable, considering the dispositions of both her parents! In the photo above, Rebekah was playing with some of her friends, and you can just see from the look on her face that she was plotting something. It turned out that she was getting ready to go pounce on her friend Mathew!

Rebekah is quite the little character, and we are constantly thankful for the gift and treasure God has given us in our gregarious little girl!