aug, 15th - 17 and 18 months....

day 547:

17 and 18 months 

(i seem to have skipped a month)........

Dimensions & Weight:

Length - 82 cm

no change on:

Foot Length - 13 cm

Hand Length - 10.4 cm

Ear Length - 6 cm

Hair - not enough for pigtails....still growing..with curls....

Teeth - a major teeth growing month.....five at the top and six at the bottom (including three hard-to-grow molars)

Weight - 11+kgs

New Words - we've reached the parrot stage so there are too many words to remember....but some recent favourites are: ticklish, everywhere, neigh, roar, sleeping, bubble (for Mabel), wara (for her cousin), e (for her other cousin), nix (for my sister), shels yay (for my brother), tapa (for my dad)

Old Words - dada, mama, baba, duck, dog, uh-oh, bye-bye, bubbles, toes, more, baby, shoes, door, nose, eyes, hat, ball, doll, zozo (for zozo the zebra), pup (for up), nono (for my mum), nana (for una, the doll), mimi (for limi) and an obsession with row-row (as in row-row-row your boat......), tah, light, boo, horse, wow, 

shower (hugely popular, especially in the morning), flower, shirt, bird, ouch, down, mummy, pah (for please), boop-boop (belly button), cat, ears

Sentences - three and four word sentences...whoohoo.

This Month's Likes & Dislikes:

Likes -

• fountains in France
• keys and doors....especially trying to open door locks using keys...still
• butterflies {see day 497}
• us, entertaining her with our song list...still
• tap dancing {see day 503}
• her cousins...adores her cousins

• showers.....by herself....stands rooted to the spot as the water rains down
• cats and dogs...still
• swimming in rivers {see day 539}
• skyping the family
• toes and shoes.....obsessed

• ice...eating, melting, playing with......

• doing up clips....especially in the pram...most definitely still, still, still
• stomping and belly buttons

Dislikes -

• unfriendly cats

• being away from her cousins
• walking past cigarette butts, leaves, flowers, gum stuck to the pavement
• not being able to run down every cobbled street in France