I Love 18 Months Olds!

Yup it's yet another cheesy grin from my favorite 18 month old. She is so much fun and has such a personality. I know their first few years are full of growth but the stuff she is doing now is so different. It seems each day she learns so many things from watching us or trying new things. I have three fun stories about what she has been doing and about her.
First this next picture.

We Annie this "Manga Doodle" for our trip to CA. It's small, great for the plane and also has magnates on the back for a fridge. So when we got home this is where we put it. She will a few times out of the day walk by and dray something but the other night she was cracking us up. She grabs her favorite little chair, puts it in front of the fridge and, well you can see in the picture, starts to draw! She was so into it-it was cracking up us. Now if only she had her tongue sticking out in concentration, we would know she was just like her Dad!

Another thing that Annie has been doing it tickling people. She has the general idea of how to tickle, but what is funny is the places she decides to tickle us-on the forehead, elbow, upper arm, calf, etc. It cracks me up that she thinks of those places-like I tickle her there. We of course laugh and this cracks her up. She thinks its great that she can make us laugh.

The last story is an example of her independence (no not stubbornness-well ok maybe). Annie has learned how to take on and off a pair of sandals. Like most things she tries (like eating a push up) she does not need you help no matter how much you think she does. Anyway back to my story. Today I went to pick her up for nursery. They were just coming in from a walk. Up the outside stairs comes my Annie-barefoot. The teacher told me that she took her shoes off and refused to have them put back on, so she let her walk barefoot. Then when she thought maybe the sidewalk was hot (it was 90 today) she tried to pick Annie up and boy did she get an ear full on that! Annie wanted to walk and walk barefoot! I just had to laugh because that is my Annie! Now if only I could figure out where she got that.....