EIGHTEEN MONTHS

Little Miss Kitty is officially 1-1/2 years old! She is as sweet as ever, giving away kisses and loves any chance she gets. She is spending a good portion of her days getting into absolutely anything and everything she can find.....bathroom drawers, pantry snacks, dog food bowls, computer desk, you name it! She is screaming a lot, too, not because she is sad or mad but because it's fun! Her favorite place to be is outside wandering around and she has LOVED the hikes we have done as a family the last couple of weeks. Kate can out-walk the big kids! Her diet is completely meat-free, despite all I have done to try to get her to eat it. She'll even snarf down my spinach mushroom eggs before she'll touch a slice of turkey bacon. Today she was eating red pepper hummus and I wasn't sure what to think! She loves oatmeal with applesauce for breakfast, cheesesticks, chips, apples, oranges, bananas, crackers, chocolate milk, blackbeans, rice, Raman noodles, etc. so she is certainly not starving!

Her vocabulary is growing quickly, too. Her words at 18 months:
Dada
Momma
Hiiiii! (Hi. Used to greet everyone, including moving cars and strangers)
All done (either sign language or screaming)
Nana (banana)
Hot!
Pup pup (puppy)
Woof woof
Lo-la (and accompanying song)
Baby
Ewwww!
My! (mine!)

LOVES: Lola pig, dancing, going for walks, babies, hats, sitting in mommy's bathroom sink, wearing bras/undies like dresses, teasing her family whenever she gets a chance

HATES: going down for naps, being brought back inside the house, getting her hair fixed, being taken off the kitchen table or computer bench, anyone trying to feed her, washing her hair in the tub, when Charlie eats her cheese stick right out of her hand

I love this little sweetheart. As busy and sassy and independent as she is right now, I still wouldn't trade her for the world! She is my little buddy and seeing her smile and all those little teeth everyday just make me so happy!!