18 Months!

To my beautiful girl on your eighteenth month of life,

You are such a sweet and sassy little girl.  Your attitude and personality always shine for me and daddy and everyone else to see.  You make us laugh so much with your actions and your facial expressions.  You look at people like they are so stupid and I feel so badly about it. You also look at me sometimes like you can see my soul.  You still nurse and we are going to try and be done with that by age 2.  you have also started peeing in the potty, I just wish it was on a more consistant basis but I'm still pretty proud of you.  You are so young and it was all your idea to potty train.  You seem to pick up the good habits from your friends, not the bad ones which makes momma really happy! 
You say A LOT of words, some clearly some only momma and daddy can understand.  You basically can repeat any word that you hear and most of the time you retain it for future use.  It seems that we only have to tell you something one time and you remember.  You are very good at following directions, I hope this carries over into your teenage years :)  You are such a social child but you have hit the stage where you get a little bit shy.  You are shy for about 30 seconds and get over it.  You LOVE babies and never seem to get jealous if mom is holding one.  Your daddy thinks you can smell babies because no matter where we are you will yell BABY and sure enough there will be one.  Momma is pretty sure you would love to have a brother or sister.  A couple of days ago you heard a baby crying, looked at me with great concern and say - momma, baby kying.  Yes, you are able to put 2 - 3 words together when you speak.  You are pretty advanced for your age and you love your little airplane daddy brought you back from St. Louis.  It makes noises like a plane taking off and landing.  You knew what to do with it as soon as daddy handed it to you.  You love to watch the planes fly over our house and always point to them and smile. 
You really are such a great baby, we are so lucky to have you.  You make our lives so great and exciting.  We have such a good time together and there isn't anything more I could ask for in my life.  WE LOVE YOU!

--MOMMA!