Zoe Louise | 18 Months

I knew it would happen.  This "baby" of mine if becoming a tiny human right in front of my eyes and it's all happening way too fast for my liking.  It seems like every day she does something new and cute and exciting.  I just want to bottle it all up so that I don't forget one second.

Helping daddy install the door nob.

We had her 18 month appointment and it was a NIGHTMARE.  She screamed anytime the nurse or Dr. Butry came near her.  Dr. Butry said that's perfectly normal for her age, but I hate listening to her screams :(  Supposably this is also the time she's going to become a super picky eater which I'm not supposed to worry about…she hasn't slowed down yet so we'll see :)

Stats:
27 lb 11 oz (95th percentile)
19 in head circumference (94th percentile)
32.5 in long (76th percentile)

She's really starting to be able to say more "words" and I love that we actually kind of get what she means now.  Even though she says cracker 5 million times before dinner and OMG child you need to eat real food ;)

She loves loves belly buttons.  And will try to lift our shirts at the most inappropriate times to poke them.  Thankfully she hasn't done this to random people...that I know of.  And when she sucks in her belly to find hers, I die of cuteness overload.

Cheese face!

She can now mimic ever single thing in her Eric Carle, "I Can Do It" book.  Cutest.thing.ever watching her bend her neck like a giraffe, thump her chest like a gorilla, waving her hands like a monkey, etc. etc.

She loves to help us put her lotion on in the morning and before bed.  She pretends to take the bottle, put some on her hand, and rub it into her legs.  Thankfully she hasn't figured out how to actually pump the bottle....yet.

She loves to wake up and get all of her animals out of the crib with her in the morning and squeeze them.  Then we say night night to them when we are done getting dressed and she puts them all back into the crib.  Those poor animals sleep for 23 hours and 45 minutes out of every day.

Taking my baby shopping.

We sing to her and rock her every night after we read stories and turn out the light.  She loves to snuggle and then pop up her head in the dark and start clapping.  I have a terrible voice but apparently Zoe thinks its awesome.

She gives the best iPad kisses to her Beeba and Nana every weekend.  She's a little stingy giving us hugs and kisses but she finally can blow kisses and loves to do that.

She can throw a mean tantrum when she doesn't get her way sometimes.  We're working on it. 

Playing with bubbles when it's too cold outside.  She was down to her diaper by the end.

She loves to help us throw anything away.  And will grab it from us when we ask and say, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah" all excited.  Hopefully her love of cleaning up continues.

She still loves to read.  Most nights after dinner, that's literally all we do until bath time or bedtime.

Her favorite hiding spot is in the small entryway.  She's not very good at waiting there for us to come "find" her but thinks it's hilarious when we walk around saying "where's Zoe" and then act all surprised when we see her and grab her.

So much fun at the park!

"MINE!" has become a favorite word lately.  Unfortunately, it's like nails on a chalk board for me.  I'm try to work on subtly correcting her.  I know it's just her age and it will eventually go away.  But I wish she'd just understand that not everything is hers.  

Her numero uno favorite word at the moment, "OU-SIE!!"  aka outside.  You can tell that poor child has been cooped up for too many months during the horrible winter of 2013/2014.  Because she literally wants to be outside 100% of the time.  She loves it!  And she doesn't even care what she's doing.  She'll walk around and point to things, sit at her picnic table, pull her wagon, kick her soccer ball, and we barely even need to entertain her.  I love that she's finally starting to play independently a little bit.  Now if only she could work on the total meltdowns while I'm making dinner (I know these are common though for ALL kids so I realize it's here to stay for a while).  

She's also started to hum and sing her own little songs.  So freakin cute.  Also related to music, this girl loves to get down and shake her bootie.  We usually have a couple of dance parties per week after dinner.  

Just cooking some dinner.

I could go on and on because as her mom obviously every little thing is the absolute cutest in the world.  She's just the cutest and I'll leave it at that ;)