18 Months Old!!

Can you believe it's already been a year and a half! My sweet little baby is now a sweet little toddler! I took her to the doctor today for her check up and she came in at 25 pounds, 13 ounces (about 50-75th percentile), and 34 inches long (97th percentile!!) so it's looking like she'll end up like her brother, tall and skinny! She is currently getting over strep throat and scarlet fever, but doing just fine. Other than that, she checked out fine, right on schedule developmentally. I had to laugh when her doc asked if she could turn the pages in a book because that is seriously all this girl does! She will sit for hours and just look at books, so sweet!

So here is some more of what she is up to these days:

She loves to play "tackle" with her brother but she usually ends up biting him :(

She likes to eat most foods, she is a big pizza and spaghetti fan, and she loves marshmallows! She is getting better at eating with a fork and spoon, she's got the spoon down pretty well, and she knows what to do with the fork, it's just not quite there yet. She likes to try and drink from a big girl cup (one with no lid), but she still needs someone to hold it for her. She has to have her own plate and I think her high chair days are coming to an end.

She loves to climb on anything and everything. She has finally figured out how to climb up her slide that Santa brought her, but now she wants to climb the shelves and onto the kitchen table and yesterday when I got her up from her nap she was trying to climb on her crib bumper, might be time to take that out. I really would like for her to stay in her crib for at least another year, but if she's anything like Timothy she'll be jumping out of it soon! Guess we should get a mattress for that big girl bed!

She talks non-stop! Most of it is gibberish and the other half consists of her screaming "mommy", don't get me wrong, I'm glad she can finally say it, I just wish I didn't have to hear it so much! But she talks quite well and she knows several animal sounds and names of people that she sees a lot. She is a little chatterbox, but I love to hear her sweet little voice!

Her favorite toys are her books and her babies. She carries her babies around wherever she goes and reads to them or feeds them or covers them up and says, "shhh" or "nite nite". It's so fun to see her little imagination at work already.

She loves to sing songs and she's learning some of the words. Her favorites so far are "If You're Happy", "Wheels on the Bus", "I'm a Little Teapot", "Old McDonald", "Row Row Row", "This Little Light", and "Jesus Loves Me".

As always, she loves to go to Bible class and loves all of her teachers. She lights up every time she sees them which I love because I know she's enjoying herself which means someday that she'll learn a lot from them.

And as always, we are so blessed to have her in our lives! She keeps us laughing and keeps us on our toes! I just still can't believe that in six months I'll have a two year old little girl, every day with her is so special!