Chesney 18 months

 

 18 months, 1.5 years, my baby girl is growing up too fast!

Here is what you are up to at 18 Months:

• Weight: 26 lbs
• Length: 33 inches
• Clothes: You are wearing 12-18 months clothes but all your fall/winter clothes are 18-24 months, so we will have to transition you soon. 
• Shoes: You wear a size 5 shoe. 
• Diapers: You wear cloth diapers during the day mostly and size 4 diapers at night.
• Food: You love to feed yourself these days.  Your favorite things to feed yourself are applesauce, yogurt, and oatmeal. You do a fairly good job at getting everything in your mouth too.  We are trying to get you to eat more foods because you would eat cheese and noodles everyday if you could. You have figured out the difference between milk and water now and much prefer your "milka".
• Development: You are a wild child!  You love to run and have become quicker and steadier.  You can put on your crocs by yourself but prefer to walk around in mommy's high heels.  We bought you a little play set of heels recently, but you still like mommy's better.
• Words:  I thought your vocabulary was good last month; however, over the past month, you are talking even more.  You love to sing and will repeat any song we listen to on your baby CD in the car.  You walk around singing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" (and know most of the words) and "Monkeys Jumping on the Bed". You started combining words about 3 weeks ago and say full sentences at times.  Most of your sentences start with "I" like "I jump on (the) bed".  You love to say hi to us and we can't get enough of the "hi Mommy" and "hi Daddy".  Your nickname is peanut and when I say "hi Peanut" to you, you say that back to me but it sounds much cuter coming from you! Your little ears are always listening because you love to repeat us.  A couple things that I don't want to forget because they are too cute: when we walk past Milo you usually say, "hi meow".  When we went to visit Grammy and Grampy a few weeks ago, we rode in a wagon behind a tractor at the apple orchard.  Now you walk around and say "tractor ride" all day long.  Yesterday we pulled out one of Daddy's toy tractors and you actually tried to sit on it.  And lastly, you like to say "I pretty".  When I rock you, you will sit up and say "I pretty" when you are almost ready to fall asleep.  (I think it is because you know I will say "Yes, you are pretty."
• Sleep: You still go to bed at about 7:30 every night and wake up between about 7:00 am.  You have become too rambunctious with rocking so we lay you down at night and you talk for a bit and fall asleep.  After bath, we dress you, and then you brush your teeth during which time we always sing your "ABCs".  You must think brushing your teeth is call ABC because after we get your pajamas on you say "ABCD night" which we know means time to brush the teeth.  We read a book (or 5) every night.  You have started to enjoy picking your own books out which we love.  You nap around 1:00 every day for about 1.5 hours and wake up so happy!
• Teeth: Left upper lateral incisor came in yesterday.
• What I love about you: You are such a happy little girl.  You are constantly talking and singing.  You love to play with the neighbor kids but are happy playing by yourself.  You prefer to play chase me with mommy and daddy.  And you love it when we tickle you.  We love how you give hugs and say "ahh" as you hug.  Most of all, we love how happy you are everyday!

 

 

Little miss Chesney, we are so amazed at how quickly you are growing.  We love being part of this journey with you.  Happy half birthday peanut. We love you so much!