Almost a year and a half...

My kid said, "Dang it all" the other day.

One guess who she learned that from.  :/

She can say "shoe" but it comes out more like "shoo-hoo"

She can say "Phoebe" (beebee), diaper (dye-puh), mama and daddy.  and kitty-kitty-kitty

18 months old is a scream. 

She is asserting her preferences whenever possible. Demanding where her morning bottle will be consumed: NOT in her room in the dark where mom hopes she might fall back asleep at 6am but out in the living room with all the lights turned on and cats accounted for.  She points to different places in the kitchen depending on what she is hungry for: the bread box, the fruit basket, the cupboard with the goldfish crackers, etc. 

She wants to pet the kitties SO BADLY.  She's getting much better about not hitting them but instead pets gently and wants to cuddle them.  All. Day. 

 

 

The other day she was watching Goofy cartoons with a fistful of Cheerios in one hand and a graham cracker in the other.  She was leaning on 1 foot against the couch and when Goofy did his yell off a cliff she giggled.  It was so...innocent.  pure. fresh.  the laughter of a child that made all the drama in the world just drain off and fade away.  She brings so much light into our world.  The way she pads around the house in her sleep sack in the morning looking like a little ghost or how she runs across the kitchen floor when Ken is on all fours chasing her.  The belly laugh she does when either of us makes puking noises (still not sure why that's so funny...apparently she has the sense of humor of a 12 year old boy.) 

 

She's in a very lovey phase right now.  She might crawl up in your lap, grab your cheeks with both hands to make her face her and then plant a kiss right on your lips.  over. and over. and over. and over.  and she won't let you turn your face away.  We're going to have to go over this kissing etiquette eventually...

 

Case in point...this is Liv trying to give her friend Noah a kiss...

 

 

She's also really attached to me right now.  I knew that would be a hard phase but it's especially hard that she won't let Ken give her a bottle before bed.  Now that it's much more difficult to have her with me all day at work occasionally it makes it harder for me to consider some child care options with her being like this.  Ahhhhhhh, the transitions of babyhood.  sniff.

 

Luckily, she also takes pretty well to people fairly quickly.  I love watching her play with Sami and Grandma Dixie at church, Rocky and Michelle at the office and Macy and Brooklyn whenever she sees them.  She plays so well with kids of all ages...so grown up on the inside....as evidenced here by curling up in a blanket just like daddy:

 

And blessed is she who believed that there would be a

fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.”  

Luke 1:45