18 & 19 Months

What I've Been Up To:

 Playing Outside

 My first backpack

 Mountain baby

 Learning to climb

 We made it!

These past two months have been super busy.  Aurora runs around, climbs, sings, dances, counts, sorts shapes, does puzzles, feeds herself entirely, plays music: keyboard, drums, tambourine, maracas, whistles, & shakers, has full conversations with others, talks in complete sentences much of the time, swims with floaties, digs, and so much more.  She keeps us guessing what she will do next.  Aurora is an incredibly smart, adorable, fun child. 

Firsts for these months: going on a backpack, closing herself in the turkey pen & fed the goats and horses when we visited Aunt Dana and Uncle Rich's farm, feeding her baby dolls and reading to them and wrapping them in blankets and putting them to sleep, feeding herself entirely, sleeping (sometimes) in her princess toddler bed.

Other developments: using a fork or spoon for most meals, sorting shapes in record time, putting her puzzle together by herself, singing along with songs, recognizing when foods/drinks are hot or cold, requesting foods/drinks, helping more in general- especially with cleaning up, asking to watch Dora and Move It (from the movie Madagascar) frequently, and saying "please" and "thank you" more often.