18 months....

Samantha is officially 18 months now.  We celebrated by going to the pediatrician and getting 4 vaccines (I mean, nothing says I love you like passive immunity right?).

Here's a little taste of what she's all about these days:

Weight: 24 lbs  50th percentile

Height: 33 in      75th percentile

Foods she loves: yogurt, fruit smoothies, pears, cheese, eggs, pancakes, Oh's cereal, pasta, peanut butter/honey sandwich (no crust, and she must open it if folded in order to get it to stick to her fingers prior to ingesting), and M&M's (she is obsessed with them.  I can't even check out at the grocery store anymore without being handed 10 packages of them).  She is very persnickety when it comes to eating.  I have learned the only constant is that she has no constant.

Words she is using: Mama (usually with great exuberance), Dada (whenever the phone rings- she gets more phone time with him than face to face time), No and Yeah (both with varying tempos and with varying enthusiasm), Elmo, Coo-kie, kitty cat, me, I, bubble, pop, tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle, go-go-go

Things she loves to do: jump, jump, jump, climb on everything, open the fridge and pull stuff out, open the pantry and pull stuff out, climb some more, play the piano, read books (often the same book 6 times until I tell her she must choose a new one.  Anything with Elmo is an instant hit at the library and she carries them around with her until I sneak them back because they are all so dumb), run around (she now runs so fast I can't just fast walk to catch her- I too have to run), swing, wink, jumping jacks and dance.

Naughty things she likes to do: take a drink and then spit it out all while looking at you and giving a naughty giggle, puts things in her mouth like rocks and beads and as she does so she says "No", bolts out of the garage and across the street the minute the garage door opens

 First day of piggy tails

 So much for using a spoon

 Standing on her head

 Playing tickle monster

 Why swim when you can play with dripping water?

 No obstacle is too difficult for this girl to master

  A little sandbox time with the white old man

 Sorting aka Eating beads

 This is her when I told her to wink at me

 She recently discovered a new place to climb

 She is quite the tower builder- Chris didn't believe me that she could stack 5 blocks by herself.  As you can see, she is also a great tower destroyer.

Things she can't get enough of: Elmo, M&Ms, school buses, airplanes, putting her hands under running water, climbing around in the car (she literally throws a fit if we take her out before letting her play jungle gym in the car for 5 minutes) and bath-time.

She is growing like a weed and getting more fun by the day.