21 Months

10/22/2014
23.2 lbs
size 4 diapers
size 18 month clothes

Since getting back from Boise Brooklyn's speech has really taken off.  I think spending time with her cousins really helped.  She says a lot more words and is starting to put together 2 and 3 words at a time.  My favorite new word of hers is please.  She does pretty good about saying all by herself, but if she doesn't I just have to say "what do you say" and she'll say "pease".  For a while she was obsessed with saying "hi" to everything and everyone, but now her obsession has moved to saying "bye". She can't leave a room without saying bye to her toys, any person that is in the room, the T.V., absolutely everything.  It is pretty cute.  She also refers to herself at Baby.  I think this is just because she can't say Brooklyn.  She has gotten really comfortable with me leaving her.  Since I had so many doctors appointments recently and now work at the gym 2 nights a week, she will just give me a kiss and say bye and doesn't care one bit that I am leaving.  It is super awesome, which also makes taking her to nursery at church so much easier.  She has started to have issues with sharing.  The funny thing is she doesn't mind sharing with other toddlers or older kids, but if a baby gets close to a toy of hers or to me, then she freaks out.  I guess someone isn't quite ready for a sibling yet.

She has been eating a ton the last few weeks and sleeping really well, so she must be going through a growth spurt.  She will eat anything I put in front of her, which is so nice.  She still loves fruit and veggies.  One day for an afternoon snack she ate bell pepper, carrots, and cucumbers.  If she doesn't want to eat something then I will just give her a sauce to dip it in and then she will eat it.  When she's hungry she says "eat" and starts walking to the kitchen.

We finally had her start sleeping with a blanket.  She gets so excited when we tuck her in at night.  She doesn't always keep it on her,but hopefully it keeps her a little warmer.  Next we need to have her start sleeping with a pillow.  A new thing she does is she recognizing sizes of things.  She has three stuffed animal dogs and the biggest one is the daddy, the medium one is the mommy and the smallest one is the baby.  She does this with everything, crayons, trash cans, pens, bowls, shoes, etc.  Luckily the biggest thing is always the daddy and not the mommy. A new thing she has started is blaming her toots on Craig.  If she ever toots or burps she automatically starts giggling and then says Daddy.  She will even accuse him if he isn't home.  She thinks it is hilarious.

She still loves to read her stories and go to story time at the library

She had fun helping me make treats for my primary class

Showing off her new boots that I got for $6

Wearing Daddy's BSU hat

Having fun at the park