Thursday, September 6, 2012

Aurora - Eighteen Months



Aurora has always loved it when we sang to her, but now she is starting to sing along.  The words are still pretty much nonsense, but she is getting notes and intonation.  It is so much more fun to sing when she is singing with us :)  She has also started to sing something that is clearly recognizable as the "ABC's" all by herself.



She loves hats!  Mimi started wearing hats with her while they Skyped together, and now she can't get enough of them.  I think it is probably because it is the one article of clothing that she can put on all by herself.  It's pretty cute though to see her walking around in her hats.


She is becoming more and more gentle all the time.  She is still very interested in eyes, but she is finally responding when we tell her to be gentle or to not touch the eyes.  Wyatt and Chile are really liking this new development and aren't running from her the way they used to.




Everything has become a phone.  Last week I was cleaning up upstairs and I started hearing Aurora from the other room saying "Hi Dadda" over and over again.  At first I didn't think anything of it, but after 5 minutes of this I figured I should go make sure she hadn't really gotten ahold of the phone and called someone.  She was sitting up in one of the office chairs talking to Dadda via a calculator.  Too funny.


This girl is into kissing everything.  It used to be just Mama and Dadda when we asked, but now she walks around the room handing them out to all her stuffed animals... the chair... the table...

I love it that she is now saying "Love You."  I don't know that she has any concept what it means, but if you say "Love You" to her she will say it back :)



Aurora has also starting taking an interest in directing the dogs.  She has always loved to tell Wyatt no when he barks, but now she wants them to lay down where she wants them to lay down, or get off the couch just because.  They don't listen of course, but she tries.



Sleep has been pretty consistent lately.  She goes to bed pretty easily a little after 7pm and wakes up sometime around 6:15 or 6:30am.  She also takes a one-ish hour nap around noon.