Madeline is 18 months old!

Gosh, she is getting so big. Her well-baby appointment was last week and she is still in the 75%th percentile for height and weight at 32.75 inches and 26 pounds. Her personality is such a trip now too. She talks and talks and talks all the time. Most of it is babble but she sure knows what she is saying. She has upwards of 30 words or better and adds more and more every day. She loves to give us kisses and her favorite things to do are dance and read books. Her teachers comment all the time how she loves to listen to music and dance. She is most definitely Daddy’s little girl and asks for him from the moment she wakes up in the morning. She goes to him to read her books or to fix her boo-boos. Unless of course Daddy is the cause of the boo-boo, then Mommy gets to make it all better. She has Daddy’s funny sunlight tick where when she goes outside and is hit by the sun, she immediately sneezes. So strange, but they both do it.

She finally was able to climb up on the couch by herself for the first time this weekend. So all she did for an hour was go get a book, climb up on the couch and read to herself. It was the cutest darn thing and she thought she was so cool. Putting the remotes on the top of the couch to keep them from her isn’t going to work anymore. She likes to turn the TV on and off and make our DVR record random shows.

With her new age, she moved up to the Toddler Room at daycare finally. Oh my lord, she absolutely loves it! She throws tantrums now when I go to pick her up because she doesn’t want to leave. They have a sandbox, a computer and all kinds of arts and crafts in her new room. Plus she gets to go outside on the big kid playground. She sleeps in a cot there now too and she is doing great with it. I ask everyday and they say she lays right down and goes to sleep. Hopefully she does this well when we move her to her big girl bed at home in a few short months.

Speaking of tantrums, those are coming back. We got a small taste of it right after her 1st birthday but then they went away. She is doing it much more frequently now. Thankfully we haven’t had to deal with one in public yet (with the exception of daycare). I’m not looking forward to that.

It’s amazing to see how much she has changed and grown in such a short amount of time. It will be interesting to see how she does with her new sister. Less than 6 weeks away! She loves to help and is very loving so we think she will be a great big sister!