18 months
Wow! You are so grown up. Today is your half birthday. It is a tradition on your mommy’s side to celebrate half birthdays. As you dad said, today you are three halves old so we are already learning our fractions!
I have really seen you change a lot this month. Your little mind is just working away learning so much. It is such a sponge. You imitate everything that you see. You grab any phone and punch the buttons and then say “hello”. You pause for the person on the other end to reply and then you start to talk again. Where did you learn that?
You love to play with your baby and your stuffed animals. You practice feeding them by putting them in the high chair or other chair and then spooning them food.
Today when it was time to change your diaper you went to get baby and then you changed her diaper. You were so proud. I am just glad that baby does not actually need a diaper because it was not on very securely.
Yesterday you tucked your bear in under a blanket and then put your finger to your lips to tell me to be quiet and then you signed “sleep”. Then you talked to me in a whisper. It was so cute. I had not heard you try to whisper before.
You are getting so creative and you love to play games. You love to hide and then when I pretend that I don’t know where you are you pop out and say “boo”. I love all of your non-word expressions. You say “wheee” when you spin around or go down a slide. You say “whooah”. Of course there is “Uh-Oh” when something is dropped, and then you are starting to tell my you like your food by saying “yummy”.
One of your new favorite words and games is “ouch”. I think your daddy taught you to say “ouch” when you bump or get hurt. Now you do it on purpose because it makes me laugh. You will be in your stroller and kick yourself in the head or hit yourself and say “ouch”. Of if you are in my lap you will bump my head with yours an then sometimes I want to say ”ouch”.
You like to try to do things to make me laugh. You love to tickle my feet. I used to pretend that it tickled but you have really gotten good at it and it really does tickle.
We are looking for a new favorite breakfast food. Youhave been eating a bagel with cream cheese every day for a long time. Now, however you seem to like to fingerpaint with the cream cheese and leave the bagel on the tray. Speaking of food, I realized today that you have not had any baby fod in a few days. I am so proud that you are finally eating real food all the time. This week you finally decided to eat some meat. You also discovered that you liked pizza much to my sadness. I have been very good about only feeding you healthy and usually even organic food. But we were out late and had not brought food for you when we got a pizza. You were hungry and we couldn’t not feed you. You probably ate almost a whole piece. Your favorite things to eat are peas, green beans, black beans, grapes, mandarin oranges, bananas, blueberries, cottage cheese and yogurt. Now you are wanting to try whatever mommy is eating so I usually end up sharing. You are still nursing more than I would like so we are working on that.
You are quite the communicator. I have actually quit counting your words but at last count you had about 45 sign lanugage signs and about 50 words. Only about half of them overlapped. You are starting to put 2 to 3 words together in phrases. I like that you are able to communicate your thoughts to us.
You are a very independent girl (like your mommy). You usually want to do things your way and by yourself. Tonight on a walk with your daddy you did not want any help going up a very big hill. you were determined here to carry your basket of books all by yourself.
