18 Months!

Hard to believe that our little Miss Lyla Belle is 18 months old. We went to the zoo to celebrate the day. We have taken Lyla to the zoo a few times but this time was by far the best. She walked most of the zoo as she hates to sit in her stroller. She yelled "mama" most of the time and ran around and made animal noises at everything she saw. It was one of her most favorite days of her life thus far I think.

We had Lyla's 18 month well visit this past Monday and all went well. She is 22lbs which puts her in the 20th percentile and 31" which is the 29th percentile. She is just a little bean but FULL of spirit.

She says the following words: up, off, down, more, ball, airplane, go-go, arf, meow, car, home, bug, mama, dada, nana, tractor, wagon, moo, oh no!, all gone, Elmo, smoke, brush, please, fish, bun, no-no, bum, baby, cracker, hi, bye-bye, poo poo, help, back, book, frog. She also know an assortment of animal sounds and can point to her nose, eyes, hair, etc. when asked.

She loves to be chased and squeals with delight. She laughs at the dogs playing. She loves to climb all over things and has no fear. She will stand on the edge of the couch and just jump- thankfully we have been ready to catch her each time. She is very independent. She will just walk off when we are places, very rarely looking back to see if we are following. She loves to watch "Cat in the Hat" and refers to it as "go-go" because they "go-go on an adventure". She finally just tried cake- after much coaxing on our part- still no ice cream though. She holds her hand up and says "no-no". She has one nap a day at this point and only has a pacifier for sleeping (those days are numbered). She likes looking at books, though still doesn't like to sit to read them. She can give kisses which are very wet. When it's bedtime she kisses everything goodnight. Her toys, the dogs, the bunny and she blows kisses to the fish. Sometimes we ask her for a kiss and she says "no". So cute to see her assert herself in the most endearing little ways. It really is amazing how much we have fallen in love with this little person. Just when I think I can't love her anymore than I already do, she somehow opens up a new little piece of my heart.