18 Months

Man, how time flies! I can't believe my little baby girl is now 18 months (ok technically she's almost 19 months but I slacked off). She is growing up so fast! Can someone remind her that I want her to be little forever?? I really am loving where she's at right now and all the personality that she has. I was always so afraid that having a little girl meant that she would be daddy's girl but so far she is definitely mommy's girl. At night, she'll barely go to Shawn. She wants to cuddle with me. I love being loved by her. 

She is so much fun! She loves playing pretend. She'll pick up purses, put them on her arm and tell us bye and blow kisses. She loves to talk on her phone and even paces around while she does it (I wonder who she gets that from, LOL). Her other favorite toys are Shawn's hats. She loves to take them off of him and put them on herself or put them on me. Apparently it's really funny when I have the hat on. She has to make sure the bill of the hat is perfectly even and will fix it if it's not. Then she dances when it's on right. So cute!

 She is obsessed with her teeth. If she goes into the bathroom or sees a toothbrush, then it's all over. 'Teef, teef, teef' is all I hear. She loves to use our toothbrushes rather than her own and she loves for me to put water on them. Then she "brushes" her teeth, hands me back the toothbrush, and says 'teef' until I put more water on it. Morning, noon and night.

 She is having a hard time with two things lately. Nursery and men. Scared of both. We had a new couple get called into nursery and the poor wife had to hold Addie crying for two hours on Sunday. What an initiation. Oh and she's 7 months pregnant. I felt so bad for her!! We're hoping Addie does better in the coming weeks. She is also terrified of men. Luckily, right now it's only strange men and not her dad, grandpa's, and uncles. If some man that she doesn't know comes up to her she gets super shy and will sometimes even cry. And even at 18 months she still rolls her tongue when she cries. It's the weirdest sound!!

 She loves bathtime still and we have so much fun with her, as you can tell. Her hair is getting super long so we love to play with it. She has these bath crayons that she uses every single time.

 Addie loves to dance and sing songs. She dances to any sort of music and her dancing is seriously so silly. She looks like a gangster. And she loves to do the actions to Itsy Bitsy Spider and Patty Cake. She will walk up to me and put her fingers together or clap and I know she wants to sing songs. We sing those two songs a lot.

 Addie is speaking so much lately. She has never been the biggest talker but lately she imitates everything we say and we can understand her so clearly. She says between 30-40 words and makes about 10 animal sounds. And she is FINALLY saying Mom!!! It's the best! My favorite words that she says are shoe, swing and no. She has said no for awhile but now she actually knows what it means. She gets this concerned look on her face, shakes her head and says no. I love it!! Even though it usually means she's being difficult. She says shoes all the time and wants to put on her shoes. But my very favorite is swing. She says "swee" and always says it like a question. Most mornings it's the first thing she says. She could swing all day long. I love hearing her speak!

Addie is also realizing when she is wet or messy. She comes up to me, points to her diaper, gets a sad look and says "pee". I wasn't sure at first that she knew what she was talking about but most days she does it every single time. The other day I had just changed her and she came up to me and said 'pee'. I checked her thinking that she just thought this was a fun thing to do and she would keep doing it, but she had actually peed. It wasn't much at all so I wasn't going to change her but she got really upset with me. So I changed her. It's been crazy. I'm not going to push her cause I don't think she's ready yet but it's nice to know that she is starting to pick it up!

We love this little bug so much! I love watching her learn and grow and develop and I'm so super excited to see how she does with a little baby in our home. Should be an interesting next few months!!!