18 months

Alli has hit her 18 month mark-it's hard to believe we've all made it this far:)  She is a sweet, funny, social, loving, crazy, active little gal and we love her to pieces! 


She had her first day of Nursery this past Sunday(Mother's Day) and it was great-for her and for us.  It was the best gift Alli could have given me:)  We were able to listen without any distractions.  We dropped her off, she ran right to all the other little kids and toys and started playing-not a shy bone in her cute little short body!  Brian and I checked on her in between meetings and she was talking and playing away.  When Brian picked her up she said "dada" and ran over to him, but then she just kept looking back at the toys and kids-its difficult for her to leave a good time:)  Church is going to be a lot better now for all of us:)  


After church-all smiles-at least I was:)  Alli was starting to lose her energy after all that playing and talking at Nursery...

 Alli ran out of gas...

She loves to try to help with whatever we are doing

She is finally getting some more hair-it is actually getting longer and we are able to have a few options with style:)   Alli doesn't appreciate having anything in her hair, however, so she takes every clip or cute accessory out of her hair within minutes...

Loves to play outside!

Is getting better at feeding herself-still really messy though:)

Is no longer afraid of the stairs and is quite the climber!

Alli is doing so many fun things its hard to keep track-her vocabulary is growing daily it seems.  Brian and I were trying to remember everything that she says and thought we might want to document it somewhere so we don't forget:

mama or mommy

dada

baby/babies

"dobby" for boppy-she loves this thing!  It is her substitute for a security blanket:)

"ereal" for cereal

juice

nana-for banana

"ite" for kite

bee

Bo-for boy

"mow" for more and she signs it when she says it

shoe

sock

ball

wow!

"nummy" for when she wants a treat or snack and runs to the pantry to point at what she wants

hi

ollo-for hello-she says this when she is pretending to talk on the phone

bye bye

go

Oh!-whenever she gets excited about something

ouch-she loves to say this and gets a scrunched up face-even if something doesn't hurt:)

"guck" for stuck-anything she can't get to is "guck"

duck

"joe joe" for a dog-every dog is named "Joe Joe

No!

Yah!-she says this a lot more than no now thank goodness:)

cookie

cracker

hot

Ka Ka-anything that we don't want her to get into-she says if for most everything

guys-to get our attention:)

"dis" for this

that

poo poo-she hasn't necessarily correlated it for when she goes however:)

two-she has this mastered for when she turns 2

waffle

cheese

teeth

eye

"no" for nose and actually sticks her finger up her nose to point at it

"coot" for cute-she usually correlates this with "coot shoes":)

bubble-she LOVES bubbles

Keys-she is obsessed with keys and tries to open everything with them

"peas" for please

Night Night

"ook" for book

 "icker" for sticker

Animal sounds:

quack quack for duck-and we have a lot around here so she is constantly "quacking"

roar-she growls whenever she sees a tiger or lion

Ew Ew-for a monkey

cow

snake

dog

cat

horse

bunny-she scrunches up her nose

bird

rooster

pig

She knows all her body parts-head, hair, nose, ears, mouth, teeth, tongue, belly, belly-button, arms, hands, legs, feet, and toes.


Alli has her 18 month appointment this upcoming week so we shall see what her stats are-pretty sure she has grown a little because some of her pants don't fit her anymore!


There is never a dull moment with Alli-she is our little stinker and we like her that way:)