Maggie's New Year resolution: to sleep in a big girl bed. We bought a railing for our current guest bed and Maggie and I put it together in preparation for moving the whole thing into her room. That's her trying to hang parts of the safety railing on the tree like candy canes. So far she's been playing on her new bed every day and we talk about how it will become hers pretty soon. She likes to pretend to sleep on it and have me cover her up with blankets. So we're on our way I think.
Things Maggie is beginning to master: pronouns ("no, I can't" and "picture of you, Mama"); peeing on the toilet (she's beginning to tell me at least once a day when she needs to go); taking off and putting on shirts and jackets (she's not interested in trying pants or shoes or anything else below the equator); whining (I try to stay unemotional to downplay its effectiveness but gosh darn it if it doesn't grate on me). Things Maggie still needs plenty of practice at: pooping on the toilet (still only the one successful venture last week); smiling when told (it still just looks like a painful grimace when she tries to smile on purpose -- like in the bottom picture from a birthday party last week); eating green things (this has persisted from sub-one-year-oldness -- her only green foods are sometimes peas and sometimes bell peppers unless I go to great lengths to hide spinach or something else easily disguised).