18 Months Old

8/22/2014
21.6 lbs
30 and 3/4 inches
size 4 diapers
size 12-18 month clothing

So we finally moved Brooklyn into size 4 diapers, not because she grew out of size 3, but because I had over 400 size 4 diapers sitting up in her nursery that I wanted to make sure got used before she was potty trained and I got tired of buying smaller packs of size 3 thinking she would out grow them soon.  Anyways they are ginormous on her but they stay on so I figure we are good to go.  Brooklyn's favorite thing this month is playing copy cat.  She does something and wants us to copy her and then she'll do something else and we are supposed to copy her and so on and so forth.  Most of the time it consists of folding her arms (which she does really well during prayers), clapping her hands, touching her nose, and reaching her arms up in the air and she will go on forever if we don't stop her.  If we accidentally copy her doing something then she thinks we have started the game and there goes 5 minutes of our lives.  She just broke through her last 1 year molars, so her tooth count is up to 12.  She has started to enjoy bell peppers and loves anything with carbs, especially pasta and rice.  She learned a few new words this month including cheese, chip (she is obsessed with Pringles, she even knows what it sounds like when Craig opens the lid and she'll run into the kitchen), teeth, keys, and hat. Every once in a while she will say a word like up, hi or chip without me asking her too, but other then that she just jabbers until I ask her to say something.

She loves all of her stuffed animals.  She has started bringing them in the car with her.  She also likes to make them say Hi.  She will wave their hand or paw and say hi.  She will also try to wrap them up in a blanket or one of her burp clothes and put them to sleep. She still loves her baby and now she will burp the baby after she feeds her and then rock her.  Craig also thinks its funny to tell her to spank the baby.  She learned a few new body parts, knees and bum-bum.  She still likes to dance and sing songs.  She is getting better with the hand motions for head, shoulders, knees and toes, itsy-bitsy spider, wheels on the bus, and is really good at patty-cake.  She loves to dance to the music on her new guitar.  She still loves going to the gym and she has gone to nursery at church for about an hour the last few weeks and did fairly well.  A new thing this month was that she puked for the first time.  A few weekends ago she was having a rough night and I was trying to let herself cry back to sleep, but I finally go up to her room and it stinks and there is a couple piles of puke in her crib and the poor thing had puke all over her face.  We got her cleaned off and in new jammies and a new sheet on her crib and she went right back to sleep and woke up the next morning like nothing happened. I felt super bad that I made her hang out up there in her puke for a little while, but she had never puked before so I wasn't expecting that.  Luckily she wasn't really sick and it just happened that once.

She loves play group and is finally interacting more with the other kids.  We are so sad to see so many of our friends leaving for their externships.  Brooklyn and I are going to be really bored the next 8 months, I guess I might have to actually try making friends.  We have had so much fun over the last 3 years and can't wait to see everyone at graduation next May.  We had one last get together down in Mississippi with everyone.  Brooklyn had a ton of fun swimming and petting the dogs.  We are really going to miss everyone.

All of the kids from playgroup

She has been making a lot of funny faces recently

Rockin out with her guitar and crazy hair

She likes to help me cook and loves to stir things so I have started to give her a pot and spoon so she doesn't make a mess of the real food.

Playgroup at Overton Park

Lovin on all of her stuffed animals

She was obsessed with these dogs and just kept sticking her arm in to pet them and they would lick her.  Luckily they were very friendly dogs.

She did not want to get out of this car.

At the splash pad with the playgroup from the ward

Cooling off in the backyard

She didn't want a slice of pepper, she wanted the whole thing

Trying out a dum-dum for the first time, she loved it.