21 Months Old

Today is Madeline's 21 month Birthday! 21 months sounds so close to 24 months/2 years, I can't believe she will be 2 soon.

We are making good progress with the toddler bed, she goes to sleep in it for all her naps at home and starts the night in it every night. She still wakes up in the middle of the night and joins us in our bed for the remainder of the night. The time she wakes up is getting later and later though, so hoping she'll sleep through the whole night one of these days. I do enjoy her snuggling up next to me and am sure I'll miss it when that day comes.

She is a very shy kid, but is becoming more adventurous. Her vocabulary has also grown, she tries to repeat so many words. She requests songs to be sung to her too, "row row", "wheel", or makes the wheel motion or spider with her hands.

She has become a much better stroller rider, we take walks daily (when it isn't raining), and will gladly ride along in the BOB, and usually falls asleep.

21 months finds Maddy:

• wearing 24 month, 2T clothes
• squeezing into the last box of size 4 diapers, we have size 5 ready to go
• has a new found love of climbing
• toddler bed!
• could eat miso soup all day long
• possibly made her TV debut while running a work errand with Dad to the courthouse (Lindsay Lohan was there too), E news was filming outside as Mike and Maddy walked by and she waved at the camera
• continues to LOVE babies (real and dolls), I think she is hinting she is ready for a sibling ;) (no, we are not pregnant)
• visited the Zimmer Museum twice in one week (we loved it)
• randomly asks for her cousin Bella (she says her name by saying "Bell" and sicking out her tongue and moving it side to side while saying the "a"
• "Peepa" for Grandpa, "Meema" or "Gamma" for Grandma, "Hahel" for Hazel, "Ja" for Jack

We love you Madeline Mae, thank you for being our sweet girl!

Love,

Momma and Dadda