18 months

Time for a Chloe update. She is 18 months, leaving babyhood and entering the toddler world! She just had her 18 month checkup, and she is 18 pounds. She may be small, but she has a BIG personality. She is so much fun!

 

She loved going to the waterpark all summer. She had no fear of the water and especially enjoyed the pelican waterslide. She did it over and over and over....

 

She still loves baths, as long as no one gets too close to her. She does not like to have anyone infringe on her space. Same thing goes for the car. Don't touch her car seat or she might scream. She is a screamer!!

She has gotten a bunch of new teeth over the past couple of months. It's woken her up in the middle of the night a few times.

Her bangs are down to her chin, but she does pretty well letting me put them up. Whenever I say, "Should we do your hair?" she touches her hair and smiles. Then she plays in the sink while I comb it. 

She loves to play, "Where's your...?" and points to all her body parts. She understands almost everything we say. Yesterday I said, "Chloe, you have a sore on your thumb." Brennan asked about it, and she showed him her thumb. She totally knows what's going on. I say, "Time for prayers," and she runs to the coffee table and folds her arms.

 

She's always entertaining at meals.

Playing in puddles from the sprinklers. It's just so fun.

 Looking snazzy in her olive festival crown.

 She loves, loves, loves the beach. Mostly she likes to eat the sand.

She even leaned over and licked the sand last time. Yikes! How does this not drive her crazy? She had sandy diapers for 2 days.

That's one gritty marshmallow.

She loves to play with her brothers! They put her on their shoulders or take her around in the wheel barrow or wagon. I was worried she would be super sad when they all went back to school, but she is content to play with just Levi or by herself too. She's good at self-entertaining. 

 

This face looks so much like Brennan! 

 

She is talking more and more. Here are some of her favorites:

 

-some? again! (those are her 2 most common)

 -up, hot, shoes, uh-oh, welcome (when we give her food), me, mommy, daddy, amen, ball

 

The other day we all sat around her telling her things to say, and she'd try to say everything.

She didn't get them all perfectly, but she was close!

 

She loves animals. Dogs are still her favorite, but she really enjoyed the goats at Avila Barn too.

This could explain how all the marshmallows disappeared from the Lucky Charms last week. I'm not sure how she got up there. I'm guessing it was a brother.

She LOVES books. She brings them to me to read all the time. Often I find her looking through books on her own. She points to things and talks and laughs. She also loves to snuggle with her blankets.

She likes to join me in my exercises. It's so cute to watch her try to do what I'm doing.

 

(Somehow I don't have any recent pictures of her all dressed for church. I'll have to take one and post it here.)



She likes to go around and show everyone in the family how cute she is when I get her dressed for church. She especially likes to show off new shoes. She started going to nursery a few weeks ago. She doesn't like being confined for lesson or singing time, though. Remember, she needs her personal space. Her favorite things are snack time and reading books.