Chloe, at 2 years and 5 months old

- Chloe still loves Dora the Explorer, but now also loves Bubble Guppies and Super Why.

- Chloe loves to read. Her favorite books right now are: I Am Small, The Napping House, The Elephant and the Bad Baby (which was a book that MY own mother had when she was a child).

- She loves to jump on the bed.

- She's a mommy's girl and always wants to be with me when we're home together.

- She weighs about 26lbs.

- She absolutely loves going to bed. No sarcasm. I hope this phase never ends.

- She can sing the ABCs perfectly. She can count past 10, to about 15 without a problem. She can count to about 8 in Spanish. She knows a few colors (orange, yellow, blue, green, red) and gets them right most of the time. She never gets orange wrong.

- She loves swimming and bath time.

- She loves Cheerios and raisins and bagels and cheese.

- She loves playing with her babies and Little People. She plays pretend with little figures and dolls, actually making them walk and speak.

Chloe and her Quirks

Kids have so many quirks. I love it. 

I've noticed so many little things about Chloe lately. 

Like how she sticks her tongue out a little when she's feeling shy. 

She wakes up so happy almost always. And lately, she immediately asks for something. This morning it was a hat she saw in her closets, sometimes it's Madi. 

She needs to point out shoes. Always. She loves shoes. 

She has finally mastered the word 'mommy'. There's no more 'mama' it's all mommy, and she says it all the time. She has also noticed what things are mommy's - she knows iced coffees are mine. She points to them and says mommy. This morning my flip flops were near the back door. She pointed to them and said 'mommy shoes'.

She says so many words really well lately. 

She absolutely loves books. I'm glad she does. When she sees one, she wants it, and sometimes it's hard to get her to let go of it. She'll sit quietly and look through them. She isn't usually rough on them at all. I hope she continues to love them. 

She gets frustrated so easily these days when I can't figure out what she wants. She wanted a sweater on, so I put it on her. She wanted it zipped up, so I did it. Then she got mad when it was zipped, mad when it was unzipped. I just couldn't figure her out. Maybe she wanted to do it herself, but she gets mad because she can't do that either. 

She loves putting the dirty diapers in the garbage. If one of us just leaves one on the floor and she notices it, she'll drop what she's doing to bring it to the garbage. She also likes putting her sippy cup in the sink. 

She also likes to dump her plate onto the table. That quirk is a little less cute. 

And she thinks everything is a cracker - chips, cookies, crackers, cereal - and loves them all. 

She know Elmo, Dora the Explorer, and Backpack.

On June 4th she moved from the baby (toddler) room at daycare, into the slightly older toddler room. The one with the slide. She seemed hesitant to go in at first, but then took off running. I'm a little sad that she's moved, but now she gets a locker instead of just a hook on a wall. She shares a locker with a little girl named Marielle. Such a cute name.

While we're talking about Chloe, I want to throw in a few stats.

Like how she has a full mouth of teeth, and I didn't mark the dates they came in in her baby book.

She's in size 4 shoes, but some of them seem to be getting small (already!)

She's wearing a few 12-18 month clothing, but a lot more 18-24 and even some 2T. It's like she took a huge growth spurt. Just a couple of months ago she was still in size 6-12.

She's still in size 3 diapers, size 4 nighttime diapers. We have about two boxes of diapers in the closet and I think she'll be into size 4 by the time they're gone, or sooner.

She finally likes hats, and will mostly keep hers on her head. Sometimes she requests it for no real reason.

She still loves almost anything pasta, bread, cereal, anything that looks like a cracker, yogurt, cheese, potatoes, etc. She isn't very picky, but she still hates green and yellow beans (I don't blame her), frozen blueberries even when they're thawed, broccoli unless you mash it into something else.

She's been completely off the bottle for a few weeks now. She still has a sippy cup of milk at nap time and at bedtime. I know it'll be really hard to break that habit, but I'll deal with it later.

Overall, she's just so much fun. I miss her when I'm at work and she's at daycare. 

Chloe is 18 months old

Every time I open up a blank post to write about Chloe, I feel like so much has changed since the last. I thought time was flying by before, but toddler time just goes by so much faster. She's learning new things faster than I can even keep track of them. So let's go through some stats first, shall we? 

Weight: A little over 20lbs. 

Height: About 30cm

Diapers: Still size 3. And size 4 overnight diapers. If I don't put you in overnight diapers, you're a mess in the morning.

Clothing: Still 12-18 month pants, mostly from Old Navy. You've outgrown all 6 month clothing, and almost all 6-12 month clothing. Some 12-18 month stuff is huge on you, and some fits well. For that reason, it's hard to know what sizes to buy, especially for summer. Right now you're in size 4 shoes. 

Feeding: You still love pasta and tomato sauce. And any vegetable I hide in there you'll eat except green or yellow beans. I need to really much those up or you'll find them and spit them out. You seem to really enjoy toast, oatmeal apple cinnamon baby cereal, yogurt, fresh blueberries, and regular old saltine crackers (minus the salt). You still don't eat great, but you eat more than before. You're on homogenized milk now, have been for a little while. You have a bottle for your nap, and at bedtime. Usually about 5oz for nap and 6oz for bedtime. You'll have more through the night if you wake up. I'm trying to get you to drink more water out of a sippy cup, but you're still not in love with that. 

Teeth: You have a ton of them. You recently popped out a bottom left tooth. I can't wait until teething is done for good. It's not a fun process for anyone. 

Sleep: You're usually in bed from 7:30-8pm until 7am. You sometimes sleep a little later on weekends, but through the week I have to wake you up at 7 about half the time. You wake up through the night a lot more often lately. Usually just once a night, sometimes more. Sometimes you just want to play in the middle of the night. That's hard on me, but you're so happy that it's not so bad. When you go back to bed, you usually sleep until morning. 

Personality: You are little miss personality. You absolutely love waving to people. You do it all the time, even when people aren't paying attention to you. Although you do grab peoples attention pretty quickly by doing it. You're really good at making strangers smile that way. You love to talk, whether its gibberish or actual words. 

Your words these days: hi, bye, mama, cracker, no, go, baba, baby, Pepe. You tried to say 'thank you' once or twice. It was adorable. 

Lately you love climbing up on the chairs, then getting on the kitchen table. I am not a fan. You like to play with dolls (babies) a lot, and especially love sitting in the doll play pen and pushing your baby around in her stroller. Once I even caught you trying to put your baby in your play kitchen's microwave. 

You're really smart. You know how to identify these body parts: nose, mouth, eyes, hair, fingers, ears, toes, belly button. When I tell you to go get something, you seem to always know what I'm talking about and bring it to me. You can put your own hat on most of the time. You try really hard to put your socks and shoes on, but can't yet. You can sometimes put your sunglasses on. You like to dance and wiggle. 

You're absolutely hilarious, and a ton of fun. I wish time would slow down because I love this age.

I can't believe you were 18 months old yesterday. Stop growing up so fast!

Adventures with Chloe, Lately.

Oh Chloe. 

You have turned into one handful of a child lately. 

It seems you're always sick or teething. Our good days seem few and far between lately. Luckily, Sunday was one of those great days together. We went bargain hunting at the flea market, and you charmed people at Michael's when I let you carry our purchase to the cash. Yep, Sunday was great. 

You sat with me on the couch and let me read the whole book  Love You Forever (part of our flea-market finds) by Robert Munsch.  You played happily with your new (from the flea market) Tonka trucks, complete with sound effects. You even tried to take them to daycare on Monday.

We got into a tickle war, which was when I realized your need your nails cut since you left a scratch or two on my belly.

You learned about wearing sunglasses in the car, and how it keeps the sun out of your eyes.

We had our first conversation that went a little something like this:
- Mommy: Chloe, come put your coat on so we can leave.
- Chloe: No.
- Mommy: Okay then, I'm going to leave without you. Bye.
- Chloe: Bye.

You say 'bye' a lot. Rarely to people in public, but you say it all the time at home.

You've mastered the art of the temper tantrum, complete with kicking and rolling around on the floor. It's not cute anymore.

You love yogurt, flavored apple sauces, crackers, soft flour tortillas, and especially Popcorn Twists. You don't like much else, and sometimes you're really hard to feed, but you're slowly improving. I hate making new food for you, especially food that takes awhile to prepare because (like chicken breasts) you tend to spit them right back out then refuse to eat more.

I really hope our good days continue for awhile. I think we're both more than a little tired of you always being sick and miserable.

My child got smarter

There are not enough words to describe how happy I am to have my baby home. After spending a week at her grandmother's, and the week before that in the hospital, she's like a whole new kid. 

Well, maybe not new, but new to me because it's been so long since she's been herself. 

I just couldn't stop kissing her and hugging her all weekend. But she didn't seem to mind too much - she likes kissing now, too, complete with the 'mmm' sound. 

I didn't mean for this post to be a Chloe update, but what better time to document all the new things she's been doing lately? This is Chloe at 16.5 months.

While sick, she was starting to get mean. Really mean. A lot of slapping people in the face, pinching, and scratching. As she got less sick, she got less cranky and violent, but my mom also unintentionally taught her to be nicer. Anytime she would be rough with Mom's cat, mother would tell her to 'Be nice to the kitty' and show her how to pet him. Now? When she hits me and I tell her no, she rubs my face and says 'nice', which sounds more like 'niiii', but it's still adorable. 

She started waving 'bye' a little while ago. Now? She says bye. 

She knows where her nose is every time. She's also learning eyes, ears, hair, mouth, tongue, belly and fingers, and she sometimes gets them all right without help. She also says nose, eyes and mouth.

She understands so much of what I ask her now. If I ask if she's hungry, she goes to her highchair. If I ask her for her baby, she brings me her doll. 

She says 'baba', and is she ever addicted to the thing. She gets it at night, and for her nap then it needs to be immediately hidden, or she'll just carry it around in her mouth sucking on air. Now that she's better, the first step is switching her to milk, and soon after that it's bye bye baba. 

After being sick, her appetite was basically non-existent, and she would barely eat a bite of solid food. Mom had her eating mashed food and baby cereal all over again. This weekend I managed to get her hooked on blueberries again, and eating pasta, cheese, bread, broccoli and cauliflower. Her newest addiction is regular old saltine crackers. As soon as grocery day comes, her diet will be expanded a lot, if I have any say in it. 

Moving on...

This weekend we had a storm, and got a TON of snow. I believe it was about 30-35cm. It snowed and blowed all day Saturday, and most of Sunday. 

Boyfriend tried to get out to pick up his daughter Saturday with no luck. He got stuck and gave up. Sunday, he finally managed to get out and get to work, after an hour of shoveling. 

This morning, we let Chloe sleep in while we dug my car out. That took another hour of shoveling, car pushing, and flying snow. We checked that Chloe was still asleep every now and then, and lucky for us I still had to wake her up when we were done.

Luckily, she's back to being a great sleeper.

But back to Sunday. For the first time ever, I bundled up my little bundle of joy, and we went outside to play and shovel a bit. I knew boyfriend's car wouldn't make it back in the driveway with the mountain of snow that the plows made at the end.

Chloe watched me shovel and laughed every time I threw the snow. She wasn't interested in playing at all though. She just stood an watched, until she finally got sick of it and we went inside.

Our shovel broke Sunday morning

The snowbank next to our driveway was almost up to my shoulders. 

So that was our weekend in a nutshell. 

To recap? I love having Chloe home. We got a lot of snow. 

I have a toddler, not a baby - 16 months old.

This kid of mine? So full of personality lately. She waddles around babbling all day. 

We had such a good weekend together that I miss her already, and I've only been at work for four hours. 

Some stats?

Age: 16 months on January 25. 

Weight and Length: She might be around 20lbs now. That's all I know, and I don't even know it. 

Diapers: Size 3s still fit good, and size 4 overnight diapers. If we don't use overnights, she wakes up soaked. 

Clothes: 12-18 month jeans (Old Navy, mostly), 6-12 month tops, some a little bigger. 12-18 month pjs. Size 4 in shoes. Size 3 still fits, but toes are too close to the edge. 

Sleep: From 7-7 basically. At home on weekends she takes super long naps around lunch. Both naps this weekend were about 3 hours long. 

Likes: 

- Mommy's toys - cell phone, laptop, any kind of remote or gaming controller.
- Taking plastic containers out of the cupboards.
- Shoes. If the closet is left open, she always goes in and grabs a pair.
- Taking the dvds off the shelf and throwing them on the floor.
- Mr and Mrs Potato Head.
- Climbing on the coffee table and couch.

Dislikes: 

- Sippy cups, but only because she'd rather her bottle.
- Getting her clothes/diaper changed.
- Being in a shopping cart for too long.

New things: 

- She waves 'bye' a lot, but that's not new.

- She blows kisses!

- She mimics a lot more now - sticking out her tongue, taking a sip of water then making the 'ah' sound. 

- She knows where her socks and hat go on her body, and can almost put them on herself. She can get the hat on sometimes. 

- Likes to dance and wiggle a bit more. 

- Climbs everything that she can. 

- Whines when she sees her bottle and wants it. 

- Passing stuff to people and saying 'tata'. 

- She's a little rough. Will stand up for herself by hitting/biting. Sometimes she'll hit for no reason at all. 

She likes food lately. It's about time. Foods she seems to love these days:
- Blueberries
- Cereal with milk
- Pasta and tomato sauce
- Potatoes
- Apple sauce
- Raisins
- Shepherd's Pie
- Cheese

Food's she's not much of a fan of:
- Muffins or cookies that are made with oatmeal and aren't sugar-filled
- Pickles
- Cantaloupe
- Toast with peanut butter and jam

She's just so much fun. All full of words and laughs and trouble. I still think she looks funny walking, and I love just watching her. She's such a Mama's girl - always needs to know that I'm nearby. She'll play alone, as long as she knows I'm close. She's my favorite.

And just for fun,
20 Ways Toddlers are Like Drunk People
and
Having a Toddler is Like Living in Poltergeist

Chloe is 14 months old

Being sick is interfering with my life. 

I missed almost two hours of work this morning trying to get some sleep because I had a horrible headache and felt weak and just plain exhausted. I haven't stopped coughing in almost two days. 

But onto other things. It's been awhile since I've done a Chloe update, so let's do a quick one. 

Weight: Approx 19lbs. I'll have to remember to check length sometime soon. 

Eating: She went through a spurt of eating amazingly. All finger foods, but she was eating a lot. She stills eats okay, but the past couple of days she's been throwing more food on the floor than actually eating it. Her favorite thing ever is still cereal bars, it seems. Or any food I'm eating. Typical child. 

Sleep: She usually sleeps through the night from 7-7. She tends to only wake up through the night on nights where I'm tired or sick. Thanks, little girl. 

Clothing: She's finally outgrowing some smaller clothing. I'd say for the most part she fits into 6-12 month shirts, and mostly only 12-18 month Old Navy jeans. She's size 3 in shoes. Still size 3 diapers. 

Walking: She still prefers crawling, but walks quite a bit now. It's so weird to see her just walk into a room. 

Other stuff: She still whines almost every time we're in the car. Some things never change. She's been sick again for awhile with coughing and runny nose. It'll be nice if we could all be sickness-free for a little while. 

She still likes daycare. She usually goes willingly to any of the workers. 

And that's about all. 

The cutest cheetah that you ever did see

Another Halloween has come and gone. Once again, it was a quiet one.

My little cheetah is a little too young, and it was a little too wet for trick or treating but I can't wait until we finally can do it. I couldn't pass up a chance at dressing her up and taking photo though.

She had two costumes - one that my mother got her, and a princess dress that I got her last year on clearance. She was a pretty good model for her cheetah outfit, but when I put the princess dress on after bathtime, she was not impressed.

Since her 13 month mark passed on October 25th, I'm going to do a quick, shorter update on her. I was going to stop at a year, but I'd rather keep track of the little things while they're still there to keep track of.

Size: 17.5lbs at her appointment on October 11th. Girlfriend is way too tiny. Still in size 3 diapers.

Eating: A lot of finger foods. Absolutely hates being spoon fed most of the time, so I've given up. She loves baby cereral bars, canned peas and carrots, bread, and sometimes spaghetti.

Sleep: She was sleeping so good for so long - 7pm, until I'd wake her up in the morning around 7am. Lately she's been waking up sometimes through the night, and getting up way to early around 6.

Daycare: We are one month in. She usually cries when I drop her off, but she's finally outgrowing that. When I dropped her off today, one of the workers said hi to her and she made one of her excited noises. I set her down to hang up her coat and she started crawling away. She's still happy when I pick her up though.

I'm still not sure how I feel about the daycare. They don't give me much information when I pick her up, which I don't like. It's hard for me to remember to ask all the questions I need to ask. But they're nice so we're not going anywhere for now.



Classic strange Chloe face



Bad things: She was sick for the first time at the beginning of October. I think it was due to coughing too much until it upset her belly. She was fine immediately afterwards. She's finally not sick at all anymore, but her teeth are messing he up, and have been for a month.

The day of her birthday party (September 23) she started with a teething fever and has been having them a lot ever since. Now, she's started to have teething effect her diaper region, both with a horrible rash and with her #2s. It's a huge tooth coming in on the top right side of her mouth.

Clothing: Her only fitting jeans are Old Navy's 12-18 months. I love them. She has so many pairs of jeans and skinny jeans. I just can't wait until she can walk so she stops wearing out the knees of the pants. Speaking of walking....

Walking: She took one step a bunch of times on October 14th. On Halloween night, she took 3 steps to pick up her bottle. I was so excited.

And that's my 13 month old girl. As usual, growing up too fast.

My happy camper

Such a joy

Anyone remember this little face from last year? Oh how she's grown up in a year.



Chloe is one year old

This post is a tad bit late, but baby girl you are a year old. Crazy, I know. 

Let's make this last update a quick one. Hopefully. 

Weight: 17lbs oz. Again. You didn't gain any weight. Fail. 

Length: I still haven't measured. Fail again. 

Diapers: Still size 3. 

Feeding: My God you're out to kill me with this eating thing. You eat great for a day, then spend two weeks eating horribly to make up for it. Since starting daycare on October 1st, they've been telling me you eat their food great. Good for you, but I don't believe it. You favorite things these days are bottled sweet potatoes, yogurt, bread, and cereal bars. And rice. You'll eat rice sometimes when I mix it with your baby food. Progress. Slow, slow progress. I guess that's why they call it baby steps. 

Sleep: Ugh, don't get me started. 

Some nights/super early mornings I actually have to let you 'cry it out'. I haven't had to make you do that in so long, but you've become spoiled. So I've stopped letting you get up every time you cry. It works sometimes. Some nights you sleep right through the night, but a few times lately you want to start our day at 6am. That's not cool. You take two naps at daycare usually. I've only been giving you one because you never seem to take two for me. Daycare seems like it works miracles. 

Talking: You don't say any new words, but you like to make a lot more noise lately. You say 'dada' a ton, but you still don't know what it means. 

Teeth: Besides the 8 you had when I did your last update, you've got a huge one making it's way in a little further back on the top. It made you pretty sick the week I started work and you were at Granny's. It doesn't seem to bother you now, but it still hasn't broken through. 

Mobility: I swear this walker is what's going to teach you to walk on your own. You walk like a champ with it, and even manage to move it around when you get stuck in corners. You're a pro. And finally, you've started standing up by yourself without pulling yourself up. You do it all the time now. Last week (the 12th), you even did it and stayed standing for about 20 seconds before you lowered yourself down. You'll soon be my little walker. Then I'm in trouble. You've also learned how to climb on the coffee table, but you only did that once so far. 

Personality: You're little miss personality. You have a new 'happy face' where you open your mouth wide as if you're surprised. 

You babble up a storm. You've learned how to wipe your doll's runny nose. Last week you also learned how to be silly by closing your eyes really tight. It's a game we play now. It makes us both laugh so much. 

So overall, you're such a funny girl. You whine like nothing I've ever seen, and your terrible to feed, but you make up for it by being so silly. You light up my life, little princess. 

Chloe is 11 months old

Chloe officially hit 11 months on the 25th. This is her last few weeks as a 'months' baby, because she'll be a year. Then for one whole month I can answer the age question with 'a year'. But once October 25th hits, she's 13 months and she's back to months again. By the time October 25th hits I'll also be a few days into age 25 myself. Oh the scariness of it all. 

I'm getting way off topic here. It's time for Chloe's 11 month update. Now, she lost her official 11 month photos with my laptop crash. She also lost every other picture she's had taken in her entire life, so these photos are super recent - so recent I had to upload them to boyfriend's computer. You know we're tight when I upload my photos to your computer, just sayin'. 

Weight: 17.6 lbs

Length: Time to measure.

Diapers: Size 3, and you'll be there for awhile.

Feeding: Back to being torture for all involved most of the time. You usually do great with your morning and night cereal (about 4tbsp each go), but your meals are rough. Usually I don't even try to feed you supper anymore, I just give you cereal at 6pm instead. You have a bottle when you nap, when you go to bed, and through the night but never any other time. You still love your baby treats, and love little pieces of bread. You love sucking on sippy cups, but not actually drinking the water. You also love yogurt. 

Sleep: You've been sleeping great lately. You sleep through the night a lot more often these days, because I now have a bottle waiting for you in your crib for you to just grab and drink when you wake up. It's worked many times. Sometimes you still cry for mommy, and I'll change you, kiss you tons and put you back down with your bottle. You usually go back down without a fight. You're great for sleeping in later if I keep you up later. You usually sleep between 10-13 hours from bedtime to morning. 

You've reduced yourself to one nap a day about halfway through August. For awhile you would just blab away in your bed through one of the naps, then sleep two hours for the other nap, but now I just put you in your bed once (unless you're super cranky) and you go almost right to sleep. I miss the two naps. 

Talking: You've figured out your first word. The first cute thing you started saying was 'uh oh' but I don't think that counts. Your first word is 'tickle'. You say it all the time. I guess that just goes to show how much mommy likes tickling you. 

Teeth: You popped I think 4 out at the end of July/beginning of August, then popped two more this past week. These past two must've been the worst, because I've never seen a baby so cranky for so long. Tylenol and Orajel are our best friends, but even that's not helping with the whine. We're going crazy, and hope it almost over with. 

Misc: You still hate the car. Maybe you hate being rear-facing but I can't help you there. You seem to love shopping, especially since we never do it anymore. You love being pushed in your stroller. We go for tons of walks lately. You stood yesterday (August 29) for about 5 seconds, after I pulled you up to your feet then wouldn't let you hold onto my hands. You weren't impressed. You love touching all electronics. You love climbing the back of the couch. You still absolutely love The Backyardigans and look at me with a huge smile every time the theme song comes on. You learned how to play ball in the past week. We can actually toss it back and forth quite easily. You also seem to love playing with this one car toy we have. Maybe a tomboy in the making. 

My girl is 10 months old

Well, my baby is officially past the 10-month mark. And it makes me sad. I wish I could get my teeny tiny newborn back for just one day. But just one. She was a tough newborn. So I'm putting off the wedding recap for a few more days to recap my little princess instead. 

Weight: Find out next week

Length: I'll have to measure

Diapers: Officially into size 3s, but I think maybe I'm just being picky, and needing them too roomy. Still, I'm not going back to size 2s now. 

Feeding: Finally FINALLY you are eating half decently lately. You typically love your morning and nighttime cereal. You're iffy at times about your daytime meals, but usually you eat them okay. You typical feeding day for the past couple of weeks is this: Morning cereal (2 tbsp of rice cereal mixed with 1 tbsp of wheat, raspberry and yogurt cereal - the past couple of days I've been giving actual yogurt along with it), a couple of ounces of bottle in between each meal, half jar of veggies and half fruit at lunch, same at supper, and same cereal at night, minus the real yogurt. 

I haven't seen you gag in awhile, but I've been sticking to a lot of the same things that you seem to either like, or are impartial to: creamed corn, sweet potatoes, squash, carrots. You seem okay with most fruit, and love custard. You also love your puffy treats and Baby Mum Mums. You love sucking on bottles and sippy cups, but it seems more of a soothing thing than drinking - since you never want to actually tip them back when you're on the go. You'll eat little pieces of toast or bread, or random things I give you to try. Oddly enough, you love lemon. I gave you one expecting a sour face, and got one, but you kept grabbing for it and putting it in your mouth and the faces stopped. 

Sleep: I don't think you've slept through the night in awhile, but you're still usually up only once. Twice if you know I'm really tired. And you'll wake up right at 11-12 when you know I'm trying to go to bed early. Usually you still nap twice a day, but sometimes you'll miss a nap. You now get your bedtime bottle in bed, most of your middle of the night bottle in bed, and all your nap bottles in bed. I fear I'm starting a bedtime/bottle addiction, but I'll deal with that later. At least you seem to be drinking more milk. You usually go to bed very shortly after 7pm, and are up around the same time in the morning. You still go back to bed through the night without a fight every time. I love it. 

Talking: You growl, you babble, you say 'dada' and 'mama', but it sounds more like 'mum mum', and you squeal and scream a lot more lately. You've got a ton of happy sounds. Your favorite sound is the one you make when you put your wrist over your mouth and move your fingers. You also love it when you make noise and I move my finger against your mouth to make a funny noise. You're quite the girl. 

You hate going for long car rides lately. You whine or cry for a lot of the trip. 

You have you first friend / sister type thing, boyfriend's daughter. You've spent a lot of time together lately and are starting to play together nice sometimes - except she's still bigger and rougher, and doesn't like to share so far. Still, you seem to idol her and follow her around. You always want to do what she's doing. It's pretty adorable. 

You're still a pretty easy baby. You might whine a lot, but for the most part you can have free roam of the apartment without getting into trouble or getting hurt. You still fall on your head every now and then, but much less often. You can pull yourself into the standing position now against furniture, and you walk very wobbly when we hold your hands. It looks funny because you're so small. I don't really think you'll walk before your birthday, but I wouldn't mind if you did. 

Overall, you kill me with cuteness every day. Adjusting to motherhood was hard at first, but I could never go back.