*She is still wearing 18 month clothes. The 12-18 month stuff is getting small on her, so I think she has caught up with sizing. She is in size 5 shoes. She is in size 3 diapers during the day and size 4 diapers at night.
*We went to the doctor a couple of weeks early because somehow we missed out on the 15 month appointment. At her "18 month" appointment she weighed 23 lb. 9.5 oz. (43rd percentile) and she was 32.5 in (80th percentile). She was healthy as a clam and her doctor was very impressed with how verbal she was.
*Even though her weight percentile is low, she eats SOO well. She will eat just about anything and eat plenty of it. She loves ravioli (olis), mac+cheese, hotdogs, watermelon, canteloupe, pears, etc. We don't ever have to worry about her being hungry!
*We have had to institute time out at our house. I was spanking her (and I am not stopping, nor am I opposed to it) but it just wasn't working. So we started sending her to time out. We have a chair that I wrote Time Out on and we put it in the corner of the front room. It separates her from us, but lets her still see us. She hates it, which is a good thing. She shouldn't want to go there! I leave her for no longer than 1 minute and then I go and explain to her why she was put in time out, make her say I'm sorry, give her a big hug, and I tell her I love her. I want for her to understand, above all else, that even when she messes up I will still love her.
*She now has all sorts of friends in the crib with her. Sometimes it is just the normal gang (Daci, Bobo, piggy, pig, and elephant), but occasionally she'll invite some new friends in there with her. Hey, I'm all about her feeling loved and not lonely!
*Within the past week, she has come up with this crazy obsession with Dora. She doesn't watch the TV show at all and hasn't really seen her since Grands' Camp this summer. For her birthday she got a Dora outfit. She has worn it once or twice before this week. Now all of a sudden she goes into meltdown mode when she can't wear Dora. Jason's mom was with us this week and she found some Dora pajamas. Those also cause fits if she can't wear those. Today I went and got her a little $6 Dora figure and I am hoping that does the trick and lets her hang out with Dora no matter what she has on. Dora is in the bed with her right now and she is in her monkey pjs, so it may be working. It is crazy what they get stuck on!
*She knows ALL of her colors very well and knows all body parts. There really are very few words that she can't say that she needs. She also knows all of the Sesame Street characters.
*She LOVES to help me feed Harley. I get the food into the cup and then she carries the cup to his bowl, dumps it in, carries it back, and closes the lid. She asks if we can do it all the time.
*She loves Harley. When we are somewhere and she wants to get out of her car seat all we have to say is that she can get out once we get home and she can see Harley-boo. She'll say, 'Har-boo' until we get there!
*When you ask her where something is, she'll say, 'I on't know' and shrug her shoulders and look really concerned.
*She is still saying 'Oh, pay' or 'Oh, fay' for okay. I hope that is something that never goes away - even though I know eventually it will.
*She is a master with a fork and a spoon and she LOVES to drink out of cups and does a pretty good job already.
*We worked really hard not to make her OCD. We let her be dirty with the intention of her not having to be clean all the time. Well, her OCD developed on its own. She cannot have dirty hands and she'll say, 'Mess' any time something spills. We made smores and she could not eat them because her fingers were getting dirty.
*We can tell her to put her hands on the ground, then her head on the ground, and 'Go!' and she will do a forward roll! I think we have a gymnast on our hands!
*We have an elephant that blows colored balls into the air. Caroline could care less about the balls and just holds her head over the blowing air like a mini-Marilyn!
*She LOVES to wear hats and sunglasses.
*We got her her first puzzle recently and she LOVES it. She will put the animals where they need to go over and over again.
*We brought home some Legos from when I was growing up and she has LOVED those. She will build and build towers and talk about the colors. We recently got her some bigger blocks and she has LOVED those, too. She can even say 'tower' once she builds it high enough.
*When we get her dressed or I fix her hair, she'll look down and say, 'Cute!'
*She still loves to talk on the phone. She is getting better at it all the time.
*She loves to take a shower (which is funny because she was so scared not long ago). After drying off she will ask for the towel and when we wrap the towel around her shoulder she'll say, 'Cute!'
*Showers have also led to the boy/girl conversation. She can point to my lady parts and call it a tuta and point to Jason's and call it a wee wee.
*She still LOVES LOVES LOVES the Bubbles. She wants to watch it ALL the time, but she only gets on in the morning and one in the afternoon. Partly because I love that she will sit in our lap for that 20 minutes and not want to get up.
*Now that she has had something to drink other than milk and water she is all about having some of everyone's drink. She'll keep saying 'dink, dink' until someone shares-and she has said please!
*She likes to pick up things and take them to the appropriate person to make sure everyone has their stuff.
*Anytime we put on deodorant she'll run up and say, 'Some!' and we pretend to put deo on her.
*She eats cereal every morning. She loves plain ol' Cheerios with milk and fruit for breakfast. Can't get much better than that.
*Now that she has names mastered, she will just randomly scream out people's names. Today we went to lunch with most of my side of the family and she would just randomly scream 'Will!' or 'Papa!' or 'Mimi!' or anyone else's name and just smile when they looked at her.
*When she sees a baby she'll say, 'Baby!' and then say 'Aww!' with her head cocked to one side.
*Even though she can talk a ton, she is still only 18 months old and gets very frustrated. Lately she has been telling other kids to share as she is ripping things out of their hands and not sharing one bit. She is also a screamer when someone tries to get in her business.
*She loves watching Elmo videos on YouTube. I have a list that we watch on my Kindle Fire, so every time she sees it she asks for Elmo. She also asks for 'Stars' every time she sees Mom's phone because they watch 'Twinkle, twinkle' on there.
*I think she is going to have an awesome memory. A few times we have said something to her before bed and she wakes up asking for it.
*Her hair is long enough to make a ponytail. It is awesome. Her little curls will pull out of it and she'll have a ponytail with curls at the nape of her neck.
*When she gets really tired she'll say 'Night, night' and go run to her room. Can't beat that.
Thank you, sweet girl, for giving us the best 18 months of our lives! You are trying out those boundaries and we want you to do that - even though it frustrates the mess out of us sometimes! We know you are going to be your own person and could wish nothing more for you. We love you a bushel and a peck!
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