Explosion!

So Natalie has exploded! She is a walking talker! Good thing, because she’s 18 months old 🙂

Words:

• toe (if you ask her where her toes are, she’ll hold up her feet and say toe! she’s also recently learned about her belly)
• shoe
• spoon “boo”
• Mama, Daddy
• Oh wow!
• Oh no!
• no (unfortunately)
• thank you “tay-too”
• bubble
• baby (thanks to Aiden)
• Jesus “she-she”
• Here you go (actually sounds exactly like that, very well enunciated)
• dog
• cow
• moo
• baa
• meow “mow”
• turtle “tay-tay”
• penguin “pay-pay”
• whale “way-ol”
• duck/quack “gawk”
• book “bok”

Favorite things:

•  blanket
• having us read to her. ALL DAY. Some favorite books are The Pout Pout Fish–she calls it “pout-pout,” Noah’s ark, any animal books, sesame street books, etc etc
• being chased–she laughs hysterically and “runs” away
• animals–we got little plastic animal figurines and a little treasure chest for them, and she goes straight for those every day. Those or the books. Or both. She loves dogs (not too up close) and will keep barking enthusiastically every time she sees or hears one
• going on walks (she’s in stroller), going to park
• trying on shoes
• latches, e.g. she could spend hours trying to latch and unlatch a bike helmet. Or a cookie monster necklace.

She’s got awesome dance moves

She’s got high fives, fist bumps and a congratulations handshake down pretty good

She’s been having a great time in nursery at church for the past few weeks

I love going to get her from her crib in the mornings. She stands up, holds her blanket up to be taken with her, and just babbles away in such a good mood. She’s such a cutie pie and we love her so much! We’re now entering the stage of disciplining and teaching behaviors; I’m sure we’ll be asking for lots of advice…