18 Months Old

Ryane officially turned a big 18 months old on Saturday, March 29th. Where has the time gone? She is the smartest little 18 month old I know (just a bit biased!) She talks so much now and is starting to put two words together. Some things she says are pretty clear, but there are plenty of words that I think only Matthew and I know what's she is saying unless you've heard her say it before, then you'd know. Then, she has other words that keep getting clearer and clearer. Aside from talking, she loves to be a little helper and will imitate about anything to pretend to help. Now we really got to watch was we do infront of her! We recently remodeled her big girl room and if we'd put down a tool, she'd be the first to run pick it up to hand it to us or try to use it herself. Speaking of helping, she likes to help get herself dressed and LOVES to get herself undressed! We are still working on when the right and wrong time is to take off clothes. She's also a big helper in putting things back like her toys. We get compliments from day care about how good she is putting things back when it's time.

We are still lightly potty training Ryane. We put her on the potty each morning after she gets us and she'll go about 80% of the time if she hasn't gone in her diaper already. Later in the day, she'll set there again, but she doesn't usually "go", but she does like her potty.

Ryane is constantly amazing us each day with the things she knows and can do. I love the way her mind works. For instance this afternoon, I was showing her how she had pockets. Well, after putting her hands in her pockets she began to turn her circles. I knew what she wanted me to sing, so I began "Ring Around the Rosey"..."Pocket full of..." Then I caught on--she associated having pockets to the song with pockets--never would have thought of that myself.

For this special milestone, Ryane "had" to get her pictures taken. Well, I took a set of pictures on Saturday while we were home alone and when I went to upload them that night, they weren't there. I never could recover them and I just wanted to cry. Anyone tried to get pictures of an 18 Mo. old lately?! SO much work as they don't want to stay in one place. She could think of lots of other things to do besides look my way. I "thought" I had a least 3 good ones from the shoot and was happy with that. But, they were gone--still wanting to cry! :( Thankfully, Matthew helped me take her pictures again on Sunday. I think she's probably done with mom-and-her-camera for awhile.

Scrapbook page credits for all my free downloads: Embellishments = Bailey's Room collection from Raspberry Road Designs, Paper = Ecologirl collection from Bibouscrap and a Swanky collection, but I can't remember the webpage for it. I'll keep looking. Oh, and font used was Girls are Weird.