Wednesday, November 21, 2012

18 months

It's almost thanksgiving and yesterday our baby girl turned 18 months! This time last year she was just a little chunk sitting at the table in her bumbo eating a cranberry squeeze pouch for the first time.



What she's doing

-voluntarily gives kisses
- tries to count and say her abc's
- fav things to watch: bubble guppies ("bubble"), baby einsteins ("nines"), and veggie tales ("bob")
- claps and sings at the right time in songs (i feel like this is genius!)
- wants to find foxy's food and feed her one piece at a time.... and has a huge interest in carrying the water bowl from room to room
- such a helper doing laundry and dishes
- LOVES to read books- one day her teacher said they read about 40 books twice! ha
-LOVES baths (will ask for duck and bath after dinner)
- coloring 
-she'll take all the bows out of  the canister and put them back a million times and say "yay" after each time
- skipping
- definitely a momma's girl
- closes her eyes and bows her head when we say grace before dinner
- At night she will either say "bed" or point to her crib (around 7)... and we lay her down, kiss monkey, kinsley and baby monkey, then do eskimos to each, then we say bye and wave all the way out the door
- she has 10 teeth
-size 4 diaper
- 12-18m in clothes (except H&M runs big)... she can still fit in 12m but the arms and legs are getting shorter
-21.4 lbs is what Gray weighed her this morning
-long attention span
- known as the FASHIONISTA at school
- I'm a proud momma when I hear how great she is and how advanced she is at school- the teacher is always surprised at how much she can do and how well she obeys
- When I pick her up she yells "mommmmma" and then "walk!"- because she loves to walk down the hall (as all the students are looking out their classes saying "awwww" then head out to the Lion statues and give each one a kiss
- loves our phones and baby apps- especially "bees" "gaff" and "ducks"
-going to the mall and throwing pennies in the fountain
- getting a free cookie at harris teeter
-kinsley and foxy must be watched when food is around
-she finally warmed up to the grandpas and great grandpas
- sings along with songs (knock knock, little light, happy and your know it, B-I-B-L-E)
- ride a little pony on my leg while I'm editing
- SUCH a mommy's girl- daddy says I'm the shark and she's the fish that follows?
- Fav new animal "roo"... kangaroo (from the animal app on my phone)
- calls women with gray hair "maw maw" whether it is really hers or not
- now men with gray beards are "santa" ha! i laughed hysterically at harris teeter when i realized that's what she was calling this random man

What we're eating:

- i try to cook as much homemade things as i can or buy 5-ingredients or less products- the new whole foods is awesome!
- bagels and creamcheese
- roasted tomatoes
- homemade pizza with goat cheese
- organic whole milk- finally got her to drink plain instead of vanilla
- stoneyfield yogurt
- whole wheat
- justins peanut butter
- apple butter
- eggs