Caroline - 18 months

Caroline is now 18 months! Wow, that went by fast. I can't believe she is now the age of some of the kids I use to work with at the nursery school. I think this is such a fun age...she makes me laugh so much every day with the things she comes up with.

At Carolines 18 month checkup she now weighs: 21.8 lbs (20th percentile) Height: 31 1/4 inches (50th percentile) Head: 18 inches (10th percentile)

She is healthy as can be! Lately Caroline's vocabulary has grown so much! She tries to say everything I say, she asks for things, she talks in the car, she talks to her babies. I love it! Some of the things she says and does that I think are cute or funny:

The other day Tom came home with a pizza and she shouted "SIZZA, SIZZA"...I didn't even know she knew what the box looked like.

She says, "poopoo" and pats her diaper no matter if she has peed or pooped. Nothing new on the potty...she still sits on it and has peed only once on it. She mostly just puts he babies on it and says "poopoo" "psssss" haha.

She tells me "no no Momma" when she is doing something she knows she's not supposed to.

She talks on the phone to daddy "hi Dadda, hi Dadda" over and over. The other night she talked to Papou on the phone so now it is "Hi Dadda, hi Papou, hi Dadda, hi Papou".

She can ask for things that she wants now (but sometimes she chooses to just throw a temper tantrum instead). She says "dink, dink", "wawa?", "eat"...and she signs them while she is saying them.

She says "down, up!" while putting her baby down and then lifting her back up.

When we open the door or she looks outside she says "brrr".

When she sees the stove she starts blowing on it "hot, hot".

When I say "Caroline, are you happy?" she almost always looks at me, puts her head down and says "no, I sad" while signing sad.

She puts her babies to bed and says "night, night" and then looks at me and says "shhhh"!

She asks to watch Signing Time ALL THE TIME. She says "sign, sign" while signing the song they sing...she loves it...she loves to watch it AND listen to it in the car. Drives me nuts because I have "Baby, baby, baby signing time" song stuck in my head ALL THE TIME! But, I'm glad she has learned to communicate a ton from watching it and learned words that we otherwise probably wouldn't have talked about much.

She likes to dance and sing now. I'm afraid I think she has my rhythm when it comes to dancing though. Some of her favorite songs to sing with me are "The Itsy Bitsy Spider", "The Wheels on the Bus", "5 Little Monkeys Swinging in the Tree", and now she likes it when I put on "Sweet Caroline" and we dance.

She takes pictures that she finds around the house of herself and she puts them in her high chair, buckles them in, and tries to feed them. Kinda weird, but it is so funny!

She LOVES to watch videos on YouTube with her Daddy! As soon as he sits down with his laptop she is right there next to him saying "cat, cat" or "woof, woof" because she loves to watch the cat, dog, and baby videos.

She loves dressing herself...especially in tutus and skirts. She will put them on and then say "oooo, pretty". When she saw a girl in church wearing a fancy dress she yelled in the middle of the meeting "tutu, tutu"!!

She loves to go to nursery at church and see her friends. She could care less that I leave her in there. I think she is glad to see me go...probably so she can see what she can get away with!

SO many things, it's just so fun to watch her learn. I feel like I have someone to talk to all day now...even if it is very simple conversation.

Love you Sweet Caroline!!!!