and quickly progress to kissy-face:
Mom and Natalie cracking up at each other:
A few days later: have I ever told you how absolutely DELICIOUS applesauce is?
Fun on a rainy Saturday:
Have I mentioned that tomorrow is my eighteen-month-birthday?
---------A few eighteen month updates:
-Natalie is talking so, so much. She picks up a few new words every day. She gets her point across very well sometimes (who can mistake the very pointed "PACI!!!" while also pointing at the spot on her dresser where the pacis are kept). Other times, she resorts to a sort of frenzied babble which nobody understands but her. Often tantrums follow this frenzied babble, because she gets so mad that I can't figure out what she's saying.
-During the last few weeks, she has really started to get excited about going to play school. Maybe it's because the holidays and the month of January have wound down (trips in November/December, and then January where she was sick so frequently that she couldn't attend play school very much). Or maybe it's because they have started to do some really fun crafts. Whatever it is, now when she sees her friends and the people who work at play school, she screams their names excitedly. She also talks about them at home with me.
-Singing songs continues to be a favorite. We run through the ABCs, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Ring Around the Rosy, etc. - and after I finish a song she yells "AGAIN!" She loves to twirl around in a circle when we sing Ring Around the Rosy.
-The hardest thing about 18 months so far has been her decisiveness regarding when she should and shouldn't be strapped into various apparati (car seat, high chair, stroller). We have had some very stern disagreements about these various issues. Luckily, the high chair argument can frequently be avoided because we have three different seats she can choose between (booster, bumbo, and high chair) - which still gives her a sense of control. The stroller debate has also been ok so far, because walks are optional and otherwise I've been able to carry her. I'm a little worried as my third trimester progresses about being caught somewhere with a stroller tantrum brewing, but she only weighs 23 lbs so really her size is quite manageable for me at this point.
The car seat debate? Don't ask. Just don't ask. It's not good. *sigh*
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