Views From A Vet's Wife: 18 Months!

Caylee is 18 months old (last week, but her well check was today). I can't believe she is already a year and a half old! Caylee is still in the 80% for height and 50% for weight. She'll be tall and on the thinner side if she keeps it up. The past three months (since I last updated on her) have brought quite a bit of changes! She is such a good helper with Micah and LOVES helping around the house. She'll wipe down couches, "dust", push the grocery cart, give Micah his pacifier and it's a REALLY good thing she loves the dogs because she ALWAYS checks to see if they have water. If they don't... well, watch out bc she will stand there pointing and saying "uh oh" and "more" until you get them more water.

We're working on speaking. It's a slow process, everything still sounds the same, but if you know the context of the conversation you can figure it out. She loves to agree with everything "ya, ya". She has mastered saying "ya" (yes) and nodding her head yes at the same time. Before, she'd say "yes", but nod "no". Her favorite thing is when she sees animals on tv and she'll make the sound. The tiger cracks me up bc it's a world wildlife commercial with tigers being poached and she'll get so excited and say "roar!". It's a sad commercial, I know, but it's so funny!

She has quite the personality.... she can be SUPER happy and loving and then turn around with the biggest lip and tears you've ever seen. We have started "time-outs" bc sometimes she's rough with Micah, or throws toys at him. I tell her no, but if she doesn't listen, the time out follows. She knows though and is always ready to give me a hug and kiss afterwards.

She gets so excited when we pass Walmart!  (Yes, all you walmart haters, that is where we shop... why? because that's ALL THERE IS!). She also gets excited when we pull into the church parking lot. I love that she will walk straight down the hallway to her class, say "hi" to everyone and go right in with no problem. She is such a friendly girl!

She is also very intense and likes things done properly. In the evenings, we've started making her put her toys away. If you put it in the wrong spot, she'll take it out and move it. She likes to close doors and when she puts her dirty clothes in the basket they have to be all the way in, not hanging out.

Caylee loves her baby dolls and does with them EXACTLY what I do with Micah. They even have bottles that they get when I feed Micah. She bounces them, dances with them, pats them, puts them everywhere Micah has been. It's very cute and sweet.

She's already in some 24 month and 2T clothes, but still plenty of 18 month too.

Caylee is still a great eater, LOVES fruit of all kinds!  If I want her to eat other things I can't even put fruit on the plate until the end. Otherwise, she'll just ask for more. We still don't do sweets. I refuse to get her hooked on candy like her daddy :) There are a time and place for sweets and until she gets older she really doesn't need them anyways... fruit is sweet enough! She gets sweets on special occasions only... and small amounts bc it never makes for fun diaper changes later!

We love her so much and she's such a sweet girl! She's turning into a fun, super smart, caring, loving kid. Often if we are sitting on the ground she'll come up and just give us kisses... I love that! Every morning when I get her from her room, she gets her bible book, gets a blanket, puts them both on the chair and waits for me to pick her up to read. The blanket HAS to be over us. We read, she closes the book, puts it down, gets down and goes straight to her closet to help me pick out clothes. She say's "bye bye" to her monkey and we leave. She's such a routine girl and very, very good at it. I love that she wants to sit and read with me each morning. It's such a special time!

There is SO much more to say and remember... but that'll do for now. We do love her, she's a fantastic daughter and great sister :)

Preview of what mornings are like...