It's a Whimsical Life: 18 months!

I cannot believe baby girl is 18 months old today! Where has the time gone??? All I know is it has been a fun, amazing, happy 18 months. It's so fun to watch your babies develop personalities and independence. And let me tell you, Lili has a lot of both. My child is crazy, she does the weirdest things and we are always laughing at her because of it. But all too soon, she has a lot of the independence thing. She's in the climbing phase, trying to climb on the couch all by herself. Sometimes she gets frustrated and accepts help, other times if you help her she'll jump back down and try again. She also refuses to let me brush her teeth, she wants to do it. Which is cute and perfectly fine, as long as I get in there at one point to make sure each tooth is pearly white since she doesn't do it properly yet.

She also likes to throw things away now. I didn't even know she knew what to do with her wrapper one day until I saw her walking to the kitchen with it and then heard a cupboard slam shut. I went to go see what she was getting into, saw she didn't have the wrapper anymore, then started checking her favorite cupboards. It wasn't anywhere! So I checked the cupboard with the trash can and sure enough, her wrapper was in the trash! So now, I can tell her to throw something away and she does it! Very helpful with her own dirty diapers too haha.

She also will voluntarily lay down for me to change her--sometimes. A couple of days ago she did it every time I asked for a few days, but not at all yesterday. Still, it's better than her running away lol. She even holds her feet up for me now.

She also LOVES to help me put away the dishes from the dishwasher. She hears me open it and comes running. Of course I quickly get the silverware and any knives out of there first, but then she puts away everything in the lower cupboards, the drawers if I open them for her and she hands me the things that go up high. And she knows which ones those are, she's never tried putting the plates/bowls/etc away, just handed them to me. She knows when we say to put something away/back, that she puts it where she got it from...or at least tries to lol.

Lilian even likes to help me put clothes in the washer....now if only I could get her to FOLD them instead of destroying them....

She loves to dance, she'll start busting a move to just about any song haha. Her vocabulary consists of "juice", "Georgia", "Shoe", "Dada", "Bye", "Ow", "Kiki" for cat, "Cracker" and "cheese" while she's giving a cheesey smile...she tried "coat" the other day and we are working on thank you--which sometimes we get something that sounds similar, or similar to "thanks" lol. We get close to saying "dinner" too. She knows what everything is to, they aren't just words she says. I ask her where her juice is, she gets her sippy cup. If I ask "do you want to go bye-bye?" she goes and gets her shoes. The only one she relates something to that she shouldn't is Georgia. Not only is Georgia Auntie Courtney's dog, but it's Auntie Courtney herself lol.