18 Months!!!!

Our baby girl is a year and a half old!  Seriously, it's so crazy to me to think of that.  The past 18 months have been amazing and terrifying and so rewarding.  She amazes us every single day, seriously.  She will do something, and Aaron and I will look at each other in amazement.

We had her 18 month appointment last week with Dr. Pak.  She weighed 20.4 lbs (4 percentile for actual age), she was 28.6 inches tall (1 percentile-short like Mommy) and she actually got weighed on the big kid scale (standing) and measured on the regular height measuring thingy (technical-I know).  She's grown 2 inches since her 1 year check up and gained 2.7 lbs.  The doctor and nurse were very impressed with how she is doing.  Besides her being little, she is right on track for development!  It's such a relief to hear them say that every time we go to the doctor.  We love Dr. Pak because he is SO cautious with her.  He still doesn't want her to eat peanut butter, strawberries or any kind of fish until she's two.  Since those are the easiest foods for kiddos to be allergic to, and since she was so premature, he just wants to be extra careful.  Of course we are totally on board with this plan, but it's kind of hard sometimes since I tend to eat peanut butter and strawberries almost every day.  I just don't eat it in front of her.  She is developing quite a pallet for "grown up" food, but sometimes she is really picky.  She LOVES to eat cheese, and doesn't always like potatoes.
 Here are the photos from the past month, followed by the 18 month facts-enjoy!

18 Month Facts:

Weighs-20.4 lbs

Wears 12 month size clothes

Wears size 4 shoes

Wears size 3 diapers

Drinks about 5 oz of milk whenever she wants

Clearly is still working on using a spoon (sometimes licking the plate seems to be more fun)

Will stop what she is doing to "sing" and dance to the Lion Sleeps Tonight

Likes to watch Disney Junior (Sophia the First, and Octonauts seems to be her favorites)

Bedtime is between 7:30-8 and wakes up between 6:45-7

Is a CHATTY KATHY-words include:

Mama, Dada, Pop Pop, Papa, Baby, No-No, yeah, Don't, Hi, Bye Bye, please, Bear, ball, Kitty (ditty), What's That (sounds like "WssAt?" while she points) Puppy, Poppy, Amelia (A-BEE-YA).  

Makes funny duck lips, and Popeye face
Loves to give kisses to her kitty and puppy

Laughs at everything

Loves bath time

Can climb up on the couch by herself (eek!)

Can go down the little slide by herself

Is reallllllly good at problem solving

Is getting more bottom teeth

Loves to Facetime with Granny and Pop Pop

Loves to play at Papa and Grandma's house 

And is our sweet funny girl!

17 Months

Oh wowza, it's that time again!  Amelia turned 17 months old last Saturday.  I just looked through the 16 month post and can I just say that she looks so much bigger to me now.  She's a little wild woman.  We've had a super busy month.  We went to the Oliphant girls' dance recital, had a NICU follow-up (which was awesome, and she said that she wasn't sure that we needed to come back), we went to Kansas City to see some of my family, Aaron and I went to see Rock of Ages at the Civic Center, we've had crazy weather, but we've played outside a LOT.  Here are tons of pictures and the 17 month facts!

anyone else see the resemblance? 

so excited to have 2 foo-foos

eating Zombie Burger after the NICU follow- up

ONLY sippy cups for this big girl-no more bottles!

someone loves Poppy Bear

Rock of Ages:

Helping Mommy bake:

 Playing outside with the girls!

Pig tails!!!!

 Playing at Papas house:

In KC, meeting family for the first time

 Some Silliness:

The girls donated their playhouse!!  We love it!

Don't judge Mommy, she let me play with an ipod cord because it made me happy and I screamed when she took it away.

17 Month Facts:
Weighs-I don't know, probably 20ish pounds
Wears 12 month size clothes, although there are some random small things that still fit
Wears size 4 SHOES! finally, we got her some real shoes-cute little Nikes
Wears size 3 diapers
Drinks about 5 oz of milk from a SIPPY CUP only (yay!)-in fact the week I posted about 16 months, I decided we weren't trying hard enough with a sippy cup, so we just did it.  It only took her like 3 days to be completely done, and she probably would've done it faster if her parents could get their stuff together :)
Loves to feed herself-she likes finger foods like green beans, chicken etc. but this girl LOVES to operate a spoon.  We practice with pudding
Her favorite activity right now is playing outside in the playhouse that Aunt Audrey and Uncle Zachy gave us.  She does NOT want to come inside (just like her parents)
Loves music-when we watch Big Bang Theory, she will stop what she is doing so she can dance to "Soft Kitty" it's her favorite
Favorite song on Pandora-"The Lion Sleeps Tonight"--every version of it.  She stops playing and boogies.
Bedtime is between 7-7:30 and wakes up between 6:15-6:45
TALKS, talks and talks some more.  She has little conversations with us.  In fact she is starting to say more words, they include:
Mama, Dada, Pop Pop, Papa, Baby (that was her word for a while-everyone was Baby), No-No, yeah, Don't, Hi, Bye Bye, PLEASE (thank you dear baby-sitter, Emily), Bear, Kitty (ditty), What's That (sounds like "WssAt?" while she points) Puppy, Poppy, Amelia (A-BEE-YA).  We try really hard to get her to say Granny, but the G sound is too hard. I'm sure there's more that I'm missing, and she does repeat a lot of what we say.
She does funny things like pointing at everything, shakes her head back and forth and nods (while she raises her eyebrows),  and makes pouty faces by flaring her nostrils and making duck lips....it's so hard not to laugh
Knows to swing her legs down first when getting off the couch
Gives kisses to everyone including the cat
Likes to bodyslam her cat
Giggles and screeches (in the highest pitch possible)
Loves bath time
Has been teething for a while, and yet you could barely tell by her attitude.
Loves to Facetime with Granny and Pop Pop
Loves to play at Papa and Grandma's house (and run down the hallway into the rooms where we forgot to close the doors)
Doesn't want me to put her hair up

She's a silly goose!

Some other things:
I had a great Mother's Day-Aaron and Amelia bought me a super cute bench at Junk Jubilee:


I'm sure I'm missing some important stuff....but I'll remember next time :)