Our sweet little girl is 18 months!
It is hard to believe I was pregnant with her when EC turned 18 months. Both sweet little girls, but very different!
AB still loves jabbering on her phone. She will go to town talking to someone on the other end, but I still am not able to understand half what she is saying!
She has started saying sister, that's sister's, sister's shoes. Yes she is still obsessed with shoes! She brings everyone their shoes, whether they are going somewhere or not is not relevant. Everyone must wear shoes!
She has gone potty twice now. Both times she woke up with a dry diaper, so I sat her on the potty and both times she went potty! I still don't think she is ready for full time training, but if she keeps taking off her diapers I may not have a choice. Twice now she has walked right out of poopy diapers and the second time was a disaster!
My favorite potty story was when she came into the bathroom. She insisted on taking off her diaper. I could tell she just went potty because it was still warm. She sat down for a second, then stood back up, and got one piece of tissue paper. She sat back down to "wipe" her bottom. She stood back up to throw the paper in the big potty and said, "all done". She totally missed a step, but it was pretty darn cute =)
She loves to use her new words like car and fish. She kept pointing to cars and saying "car" when we were getting our van serviced at Volkswagon. On vacation last week, she saw fish pictures every where. So of course pointing and saying "fish" was only appropriate! We also went shopping and she said, "a ball" with great excitement and then a word that resembled glasses when she saw sunglasses.
She loves to throw things in the trash. When we are cleaning, that is one job she is always enthusiastic about. I'm just glad she doesn't confuse the potty with the trash any more =) That was a fun time!
She still loves baby dolls too! She has started taking them every where we go. Baby Maggie (EC's Cabbage Patch doll) joined us at Sam's today. And she does NOT like to share her babies. Hands off people!
Other words she likes to use are "up peas" (please), cup, ice and boo boo. If she says boo boo, she fully expects to receive a bandaid on the place of her choosing. She also started saying "bye" more regularly this week. She has been waving for a while and said "bye" a time of two, but now it is fairly regular. She walked out of Pop and Gran's house on Sunday practically yelling "bye!" Oh, and she actually walked up to Pop and Gran to give them hugs and kisses goodbye. Typically I hug them with her in my arms. AB has not really liked guys in general for a while, except for her daddy. She will warm up to Poppa, Pipo, Austin, and Uncle Craig if she is around them for a bit, but typically she can do without guys. So choosing to walk up and hug Pop by herself was a Huge deal!
She also says "woof woof" or "quack quack" when you ask her what sound a dog or a duck makes. She loves to point out her body parts, head, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, knees, toes, and cheeks. She also loves to wear "panties" like her big sis. She can put pants and panties on by herself. And she has even put her shoes on the correct way a few times!
She still loves to read and will ask anyone and everyone to read to her - even a five year old!
She loves her Riley!
Last week was AB's first beach trip ever and she had a great time! She loved being out in the waves, but also liked the shore line.
She tolerated the sand ;)
She is still attached to her sassy, even though she will go without it for most of the day. She will take it out for pictures, if you ask her to and if she is in the right mood.
Having a kiddie pool to play in under the tent was a life saver! Even the big kids loved it!
Most of all, we all loved being at the beach with friends! We met the Gordon's last year at our couples bible study. They are such great people, we are blessed to call them friends!
AB loved being one of the big girls during our trip!
It is funny how EC asks if our friends are family members too. I wonder if AB thinks the same thing =)
AB even got to see her first movie, Brave, while we were on vacation. All thanks to tropical storm Debbie.
This was only EC's second movie in the theater, so she was loving it too! It was a little exhausting clapping and saying, "Yay!" during the fun parts, so AB closed her eyes for just a few minutes at the end.
Annabelle loves to clap and say "yay!"
She also loves kisses from daddy!
And she will always be my sweet baby, no matter how old she gets!
