Likes and dislikes

These are a few of Syra's likes and dislikes as of today. I cannot believe my baby girl is almost 10 months! That is sheer craziness to me, I still remember being pregnant with her. But it is so exciting to watch her grow and learn how to do new things, saying new words, understanding what I am saying.

The other day my cat came in and was meowing and I knew that she wanted food, so I said to Syra, "come on we need to go feed the kitty", and with that she grabbed this book that has a cat in it and opened the page, pointed and said kitty. It brought a tear to my eye. She is a smart cookie.

LIKES
+ Snuggling mommy and daddy, and giving us kisses
+ Snuggle Bear, a gift from Bonika when she went to Belize, it white and super soft
+ Cheerios (not the honey ones)
+ Animals
+ Giving herself kisses in the mirror
+ Jamba Juice, so much now that she will rip the straw right out of your mouth, I have to get some in a separate kid cup so she has her own
+ Balloons
+ Good food, she was never into the baby food, she would look at you and be saying why are you feeding this to me? She enjoys pretty much everything we cook. She especially loves our apple-banana pancakes
+ Baby Einstein
+ Books, she loves her books, she opens them and gives kisses and says a story while flipping through the pages
+ Being naked she has figured out how to get her diaper off, to the point of where I have to keep bloomers on her
+ Water, she loves showers, the pool, playing with the water in the sink, drinking it
+ My art stuff, she thoroughly enjoys getting into my art stuff, and cracks up when I tell her no, I move her only to find her back in her same spot in less than a minute.
+ Getting sung to sleep, I have a special song I sing for her when it is nap or night time
+ Being outside, she watches the trees blow in the breeze, she will stare and point at the moon in the sky, going for walks
+ giving kisses
+ Clapping her hands together, we have a song that we sing and clap our hands to, now that she figured out how, she is always doing it
+ She likes to pick out her outfits, I give her two choices and she picks what she wants to wear
+ Playing peek a boo
+ Having her picture taken
+ Jewelry, she loves to touch it, look at it, she loves her little necklace that she gets to wear, she just holds on to it in her hand
+ I have a brown and white polka dot bikini top, and she gets a hold of it and tries to put it on, maybe because that is the suit I wear when we go swimming? Anyways once you put it on her, she is happy happy happy, not so happy when you take it off.
+ Music, she has some drums she likes to bang on, she also sings along with it sometimes, and sometimes she doesn't even need music to sing, sometimes she sings with me when I am singing to her, sometimes she just sits and sings
+ Swinging in her swing outside as long as she isn't near any flowers


DISLIKES
- Flowers, if they are real and you get them near her, she freaks out, especially roses
- IRobot, we have an irobot in the house and when she hears it, her eyes get big, and it gets near her and she is on the floor, (she cannot walk yet), but she is running away from it screaming. Even when it is at it's "dock" charging or sleeping, she gives it dirty dirty looks
- not being able to talk to communicate yet, she gets frustrated sometimes
- going to sleep, she fights going to sleep most of the time, hence the singing to her, she relaxes and then eventually goes to sleep. It as if she doesn't want to miss anything
- Strangers, random people come up to her and say something to her, she looks them and then looks at one of us and seems to say, "do I have to acknowledge them?" It makes us crack up. The other day a lady touched her arm and Syra grabbed her finger and threw it, it totally offended this lady, I was doing everything not to burst out laughing.
- Hats, she has gotten better on this one, sometimes she will wear them and sometimes the moment it touches her head she rips it right off


Well I am sure that there is more, but for now that is all I can think of