Eighteen Months

Juliet is a year and a half old! I look back just at her 12 month photo and I can't believe how much she's changed.

Juliet got two more molars this month. She is usually a pretty obvious teether but these both snuck up on us and I didn't notice them coming in.

Juliet's language has exploded this month. New words include mine, drink, snack, night-night, bath... Most are still just words we recognize, but everyone can tell when she says hi, bye-bye, night-night, and MINE!!!

At this age I had a good feel for the types of toys and activities that Ben liked most - trains, cars, etc. With Juliet it's a little harder to tell. She loves pushing toys like the stroller and shopping cart, and she's more into fine motor skills like stacking and sorting. One thing is for sure - she is our water baby. At a pool party on Saturday we tried Ben's floaty on her and she ran right to the edge of the pool and threw herself in. She comes to the sink when I'm washing up and wrings her hands together to let me know she wants to wash hers, too. And I think every night lately we've spent at least some time out with the water table Pete built.

Ben is having so much fun with Juliet as she gets older. It warms my heart to hear "Juwiet, come play in my room! Juwiet, let's hide under this blankie! Juwiet, let's go play on the playground!" They play together quite well, though there are the usual occasional sibling scuffles. In fact, we had to remove them from church Sunday because Juliet wanted to share the cars Ben brought and that didn't go over too well.

Sunday Juliet took a 3 hour nap! And still slept 11 hours at night. She is our champ sleeper. Fingers crossed she doesn't grow out of this!

Juliet has quite a wardrobe right now. She can wear some of the summery clothes we got her last fall but is mostly wearing her 18-month clothes with some 24-month thrown in to get more wear out of them. She's wearing size 5 shoes, which I can't seem to stop buying for her. It will be a few more weeks before we get in for her 18-month appointment so I'll try to remember to update with her height/weight.

This is what we dealt with trying to get this month's picture!