Here are some things about 18 month old Brooklyn:
- words Brooklyn could say: Mama, dada, go, hi, milk, all done, apple, uh oh, oh man (pretty funny, she would drop her cup on the floor and it would spill and she would say Oh Mannn)
- She is a daddy's girl. She gets SO excited when Reed comes home from work. And Reed loves it!
- When people come in she is very insistent that they take off their coat and shoes - especially when Reed comes home from work. He will pick her up and she will immediately start tapping his shoulder. If that doesn't work she will start to unzip his coat and pull it off.
- She is very particular about her bed time routine. We put on pajamas, brush teeth, and then go to her room. We usually sit on the floor, or she sits in the rocking chair and I sit on the floor. Then we read books. She insists on 4 or 5 books, and she wants all of her stuffed animals on her lap, as well as all 5 books on her lap while she read. It can get kind of crowded. Then we turn off the lights, sing a song and put her in bed. Then I tell her I love her and we blow kisses and I leave. If we leave out any of these elements, or try to shorten it a little she will throw a huge tantrum.
- She scratches when she is mad. Micah has taken the brunt of this but all of her brothers have had scratches on their cheeks from her nails.
- She is doing better about keeping her hair bands in. She will sometimes leave it in for a couple of hours.
- She loves peanut butter, butter, bananas, and cheese. A couple of weeks ago I caught her carrying a stick of butter around. It was partially unwrapped and she was licking it like a popsicle - bleah! Silly girl!
Here are a few pictures of 18 month old Brooklyn:
She can stick her bottom lip out pretty far:
Sharing an orange with Dad:
I went to check on her during her nap and this is what I found. She had piled all of her stuffed animals in a pile, and then put her blankets on top of that and then she fell asleep on the pile. It didn't look very comfortable:
Here is a look at 21 month old Brooklyn:
- her vocabulary suddenly exploded at around 19 1/2 months. Now she says tons of words and I feel like she adds a new one almost everyday. Her favorite words right now are "no, mine, baby, ewww". She also loves to sing "e I e I oh!" from Old McDonald had a farm.
She actually stays tucked in sometimes (my only child to do so at this age):
Playing peek a boo:
She loves to do things with Micah. It has been fun to watch them the last couple of months because they have really started to play together more:
Her hair can be pretty crazy sometimes, especially if it was wet when I put it into pig tails, and then she pulls out the pig tails after it dries:
She is getting so big!
