Wednesday, August 22, 2012

18 months

My sweet baby girl, yes you are a toddler, but you will always be my baby.  I took some time off from monthly updates because it is so hard to find the time to blog.  You are busy, busy, busy and want lots of attention from your mommy.

You are so curious about everything and have become quite determined when it comes to getting what you want.  You can point and show us what you want and become very upset if it's something we won't let you have, such as a cellphone, computer, or bottle of medicine.

You love your kitties so much.  You give them hugs and try to share your food with them.  We are working on being gentle, but this is a tough concept for you.  Especially since your kitties are extremely tolerant and do not provide you with any natural consequences other than running away from you.

You are pretty fascinated by all animals.  You love to find dogs, or as you call them "wow wows".  As long as they don't get too close, you are very excited to see them.  You love to chase after birds and get down on the ground to inspect bugs.  You are definitely an animal lover like your mama.

Books and baby dolls are still a favorite.  You especially like books with animals in them of course.  And you just like to spend a lot of time exploring the world around you.

You can climb up and down the stairs all by yourself and can even walk down them if you hold my hand.  You have a newfound freedom of running all over the place.  You love to run outside and to find rocks, leaves, flowers, anything really.

It is also hard to take you to the store now, because you want to run around and touch everything you see.  It is all so new and exciting!

Your favorite word is "uh-oh" and "mama".  You also like to hold up your hands and say "wheredhego" which is "where did he go", but you condense it into one word. Or "wheredugo" which is "where did you go".  It is so cute.  You have a lot of words even though you don't always use them on a regular basis.

You know where your eyes are and can say "eye".  You poke me or daddy or the cats in the eye and say "eye".  We still need to work on the rest of the body parts though.

You know a cow says moo and a cat says meow and I think you know that a monkey says ooh ooh.  But animal noises are another thing we will work on.

You had your very first airplane ride to New York and did wonderfully well on the plane.  It was a very fun trip!  Your favorite part was the day we went to the beach.  That was mommy and daddy's favorite too.

I think that is enough of an update for now.  I'll end with some pictures.  I love you so much baby girl!

In Tahoe.

You love your kitty!

Happy girl eating ice cream.

So proud to be sitting in your own seat on the subway.

At the beach in NY.