Cute Things

Felicity says "mmmm!" when she tastes something she likes.  Today I gave her shells and cheese and she took some and her little eyebrows went up and she said MMMMMMM!  MMMMMMMMMMM! Then she ate an entire package of them, and this was after she already had lunch.  She would eat her weight in cheese if I let her, but as Marta and I discussed today, she doesn't have milk, hardly ever, so she can have cheese and yogurt til she busts, as far as I'm concerned.

She also says "noooo!" when you say "are you ready to take a nap?". I don't mean to ASK her anything, I should know better than that, but it's so cute I can't stand it.

Not cute:  she tears down the dvd's from the shelf all the time.  She will not stop climbing on the table.  She is getting very particular about what she wants to do, which is everything the bigger kids get to do.

But she is more fun outside, we found out last Saturday, she can be trusted a little better climbing on the playset, etc.  She is doing just fine.  Mmmmmmmm!, she is delicious!  Ha!

Isn't she something?  How we love our little Felicity, everyone does!  Maria in particular has gotten very cute with her lately, showing her how to do stuff, etc.  I wouldn't say she's the most patient teacher ever, and sometimes she is a little intense:

But overall she is nice and loves her so much, as do we all.  Felicity will be 18 months old on April 10 and she is right where she should be, I'm guessing.  She has some words, maybe 10?  They asked on her 18 Month Old Evaluation thing I am supposed to fill out for her appointment with the pediatrician.  She says Mama and Daddy, Water, Banana, Bread, Cookie, Me, No, Bee (for Max and Ruby), maybe that's it.  She points at everything, her receptive language is really good.  

God knows she climbs on stuff.  She is always, always climbing on the table, the chairs, the stairs, the beds, the furniture, everywhere.  She is everywhere all the time.  She wants to walk down the stairs like a regular person and she wants to do it while she is carrying stuff in both hands.  She terrifies me.  I don't want to hold her back but I can't have her falling down the stairs, which were built in 1963 I think maybe expressly to kill small children.  When I think about those soft, cute stairs I had in my old house I want to cry.  I should have appreciated them more!  

She is sleeping well, she has a permanent runny nose which could be there because of a cold or because she's been getting teeth.  It could also be because we've had the heat blaring in our house for the last six months or whenever this horrible winter started.  

She still drinks a little bit of water from a bottle before she takes her one nap or goes to bed.  I can't see that being a problem, so I'm not worried.  I bought her some new cloth diapers and I really like them.  For some reason, the Fuzzi Bunz weren't working for her so I bought some Bum Genius and they are great.  Also, they are SUPER cute, I'll put up some pictures.  This one is my favorite, mostly because I love  black clothes on a baby.  

So - almost 18 months, sweet as ever, perfect in every way, looking forward to spring.