16 Month Old Communicator

Ah, my little angel. That's what she is right now. She loves giving hugs and kisses. She's good at it, too! When she hugs, she pats your back a few times, it's precious. It seems like she's grown up a lot in the past couple of weeks. Both physically and mentally. All of a sudden her 12 month stuff doesn't fit her anymore. Now she's 18 month sized. Her pants are all too short, poor baby!

Potty training is coming along. She will grab her diaper and say "pee pee". Up until recently, she's been telling us after, but lately she's been going more on the potty. On Monday, Apr 10th, she went poo poo on the potty for the first time! I was so amazed, and she was so proud! I cheered for her and took a pic of her next to the potty. She kept pointing and clapping for herself. Very cute.

She likes to draw now. She bring her magna doodle and says, "daw" for draw. She has so many words in her little vocabulary it's amazing to me. I can't even think of them all right now. A big one is please, "peez"

We were at dinner last night and the waitress had brought her some tofu in a bowl. She gobbled it all up and then told me "more". I told her we had to wait and ask the lady. When the waitress finally came, she held up her empty bowl and said, "peez?" It was so cute.

She asks very nicely for "dink". She'll bring me her little cups and say either "milk" or "dink". She drinks perfectly out of a regular cup, too. She can also drink perfectly out of a water bottle! For the longest time she didn't grasp that you don't put your whole little mouth around it... so it's neat to see that she's picked up that trick. I give her a cup and tell her, "now, don't spill..." and she walks so carefully to her destination so she doesn't spill. When there is a mess to clean up though, she knows to get a towel and rub it back and forth. It's so cute.

Strawberry Shortcake is still her favorite thing ever. She used to dance to it by lifting up one leg over and over again, but now she's thrown in a few spins. She's so stinking cute. I told her just tonight, "go around and around...." and she tilts her head to the side and spins! Then when we all clap for her, she claps too and looks at everyone, just to make sure that everyone is looking. She's a bit of a ham that one.

We went to visit Aunt Marie and Uncle Charlie the other day and she LOVES her Uncle Charlie. He had her laughing out loud for quite a while. One of the things he does to her is sing, "hello, Hello, HELLO" like a quartet or something. It was making her laugh. After a while he was just walking by and she sang, "hao" to him. She wanted him to sing hello to her again! And of course, he did!!!

Kat loves cats! We read her "Goodnight Moon" every night, and she always points out the cats, and they aren't even in the main focus. She has 3 stuffed cats and loves them all. If she sees anything that even looks like a cat, she's saying, "keee Keee" When we tell her to MEOW it sounds nothing like a meow, but it sounds the same every time. In her mind it must sound like meow.

She's still obsessed with her hair pretties. And she's getting better at saying "pretty". She used to say "pree" but now it's more like "prety" She'll put on in her hair and then just tilt her head and rotate her body back and forth and pretend to be shy about being pretty. Funny girl.

Right now she loves to watch me cook. She likes it when I explain what I'm doing, and she loves to try to help. Poor thing gets banished when the heat gets turned up, but she enjoys being in there when she can.

Her climbing is getting better, which is terrifying. She can get in and out of the tub by herself now.

Oh a big one! She can feed herself a whole tub of yogurt with a spoon! I used still help her a bit with the runny stuff but she cries now if you don't give her the spoon. She's getting so big so fast and it breaks my heart.

Communicating with her is getting so much easier. When she whines, we tell her to "use her words" and usually, she does. She points or says words or shows us, but she's very good at getting us to know what she needs. I love her so.