18 Months!

Tomorrow Miss Beanie Bean will be one and half! The last six months have flown by. She's such an independent little person now. She's really talking up a storm although a lot of it is in her language. Like this morning she had oatmeal with yo-yo's and uh-oh's in it, which might confuse you but is oatmeal with apples and raisins in Beanese. The Bean is a fiend for raisins. She really won't share them with you at all!

To celebrate this past half year, N turned Bean's car seat around so she can be forward facing. She was the last of her cohort to get turned---the new pediatric guidelines say 2 (the old ones said 1 or 20 pounds) but we saw how much more comfortable her buddy Nate looked and had to to turn her. She was also running out of room with those long little legs. N drove with her to the library and he said she was very into seeing! So yay!

I know I'm biased but Bean seems very smart. She understands a tremendous amount. Today she took the "yuck" aka lint I handed her from the drier, and with minimal assistance, walked into the kitchen, pulled out the garbage, threw it out, and then attempted to put the garbage back. Yesterday I asked her to tell N which friend she saw at the gym and after a few "babies" she actually she said the name of her friend. Cool stuff, Bean!

We're still on a baby kick though. She's really obsessed. It's pretty much baby, baby, baby all day long. By the end of the day, I'm pretty sick of it, but I know it too will pass. And happily, I think she's going to be a great big sister! Very hands on as N said, but hopefully the end of the reign of the Bean won't be too traumatic or require too much therapy.