- Finished ISR lessons!
- Understands the following words: Daddy, Mommy, Auntie Kali, Grandmama, Bella, food, milk, more, ball, book, bed time and shoes.
- Delay tactics to avoid nap and bed time
- Cuddling, asking for milk or water, wanting to read
- Picking up on social cues way more
- Anything that makes us laugh she does more of
- Hugs our legs (especially when upset about something)
- Fake crying as if the world is over before naps
- Frantically asks for headband (and sometimes her stuffed animals) as soon as she wakes up
- Said "Daddy" and "Doggy" first
- Plays hide-and-go seek
- Likes playing with the door stopper
- Loves wearing shoes (hers and her parents)
14-15 Months
- Discovered Siri and tries to enable it on the phone so she can 'tell' it what to do
- Loves Baby Signing Time and asks for it by signing "baby"
- Knows where her toes, nose, eyes and ears are
- Understands almost everything we say
- Hunching shoulders and daintily asking "more" when she really wants something
- Frantically grunting when the fridge opens asking for either milk or cheese
- Helped us
- Primary sign language: please, thank you, down, food, more, milk, water, ball, keys, shoes
- Now also says "cheese" and "Kali" and "hot"
- Try to get her to say "Mommy" and she just points to herself (because that's what I do and it makes me laugh)
- Blows on her food like she sees us do when we tell her the food is hot
- Squeals in delight:
- when doorbell rings and goes running to answer it
- when Geoffrey gets Bella all riled up
- when she runs and tries to throw a ball (tends to simply drop it), picks it up again and repeats the process
- when she plays with the tennis ball and Bella
- Loves squeezing daddy and mommy's noses to make us 'honk'
- Loves climbing!
- Rocks back and forth with body and/or head to ask for music
- Loves "Seeds of Faith" music online
- Loves books
- Loves being scared
- Mommy hides behind door or counter and jumps out at her)
- Loves looking out the front door when it's open as the weather cools
- Loves going outside
- Loves bath time
- Thinks it's hilarious to pour water with cup
- Loves her dolls
- Runs to the garage to see Daddy when I tell her he's home
- Hands up in the air with a high pitched questioning noise when I ask where someone or something is
- Starting to point to my belly when I ask where baby is
- Waves hello not just goodbye'
- Understands almost all the instructions she is given now including getting her shoes, putting things away, cleaning up
- Thinks it's hilarious when she claps and we mimic her
- Makes a basket with the ball and hoop when instructed to
- Running and as a result falling more
16 & 17 Months
- Understands naps
- Loves playing with a blanket
- Stacking rings toy
- Climbed onto table
- Cleans up after herself when she spills milk
- Tries to help me with laundry
- Telling her more frequently to wait and she does not like that
- Now loves using a spoon (kind of claps to for the sign) at every meal
- Loves milk
- Now knock when we go in to get her in the mornings and she replies with "ehh?"
- Geoffrey started watching wildlife movies with and she calls it "birds" using sign language and scrunches her shoulders cutely when she asks
- Now takes pictures using my phone
- Also likes accessing the calculator on my locked phone
- Prefers hair clips over head bands
- Smiles by scrunching her nose whenever she sees me pointing the camera or phone at her
- Pushes the little tikes car around the home
- Loves swinging and can't get enough of it
- Same with spinning in circles with Daddy
- Loves climbing on the bunk bed to bounce on it
- Bailey doll and plastic keys are her favorites
- Pushes crib away from the wall using her feet and the crib slides because of the jars, discovered the clothes packed away underneath and played with it a couple times delaying naps twice before I wised up
- Basically tries to climb up anything she can
- Geoffrey showed her how to climb up the 'rock climbing wall' on the slide
- Over Thanksgiving discovered she loves playing in the sand
- Loves trying to get Bella to chase the ball and does the same with Trigger who always obliges
- Asking every meal for a spoon and almost mastering how to eat with utensils
- Becoming very opinionated about what goes on her hair and trying to set a new trend of multiple hair bows being worn at once
- Climbing on everything she can and sometimes getting stuck
- Closing any open doors, cabinets or drawers which is usually great but sometimes hinders me putting away the laundry and dishes :)
- Discovering her pjs unzip which is how she has been spending the first ten minutes of each morning lately when she wakes up
- Discovering how to honk our vehicles horns and how to ring the doorbell
- Enjoying "driving" in Daddy's car and riding in the passenger seat of the van while in the garage
- Finding it hysterical whenever anyone copies what she's doing
- Having opinions on where she wants to sit and what she wants to eat
- Helping herself get dressed
- Learning how to clean spilled milk, put dirty clothes in the hamper and knock on the door when someone's in the bathroom
- Loving getting her finger and toe nails painted by her aunts
- Mastering how to take blurry selfies using Mommy's phone
- Moved into her big girl bed
- Pretending she's talking on the phone as she walks around the house
- Randomly requesting to have her teeth brushed throughout the day
- Rotating her square based cup 90 degrees thinking that will solve the problem of not getting water in her mouth instead of tipping it more :)
- Scrunching her nose and eyes whenever we tell her to smile
- Touching the ground in a froggy position every few steps to imitate Mommy doing squats
- Wrapping her doll Bailey in her favorite blanket and pushing her around in her doll stroller
- Every day that Christmas lights were up would tilt her head back and frantically say please to get me to turn both the tree and garland lights on
18 Months
- Doing an "oh" face when she knows she's doing something she shouldn't or an accident happens
- Telling me when her diaper is wet!
- Loving reading books and talking the full time about the 'doggy' and 'hat' and 'bird'
- Loves Jesus Is With Me
- Moved to booster seat (for training not to whine purposes)
- Play time in room with gate instead of pack-n-play
- Organizes ducky, bottle and cup on the tub shelf when taking baths
- Loves tackling her unicorn pillow
- Enjoys being goofy
- Helps with choosing her clothes and putting socks away
- Tries to tickle us now when prompted and sometimes on her own initiative
- Recognizes the food court at Costco and immediately asks for food when we pull up
- Putting any clothes I give her into her hamper when I say to put them in her room even when they aren't dirty
- Loving the basketball hoop and playing with the plastic balls
- Pushes her train, car and stroller around the house
- Loves putting her sippy cups and phone in the bottom pouch of her stroller
- Knows who Stuart and Agnes are
- Figured out how to open and close the garage with the keys for walks
- Asks for Daddy if I'm the only one to go get her in the mornings
- Stomps her feet in excitement when she gets food she is asking for
- Grabs the dryer balls every time I open the dyer
- Makes sure Bella has her food and water full
- Loves using the stool to wash her hands
- Regularly asks to get her nails painted
- Frequently asks to go in the swing
- Finally figured out to point at me when asked where mommy is instead of herself
- Points to her 'eye's when I say 'ice'
- Enjoys taking all the letters off the ABC board and then putting them back
- Told her to clean up the water and she went and put the rag in the water bowl instead of cleaning up what was spilled on the floor
- Knock on her bedroom door and she says 'eh?' when we ask if we can come in
