17.5 months and counting...

I can't believe how fast she's growing!!

Favorite books: Shake a Leg, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, Head to Toe
She loves making all her animal sounds... especially "meow", "moo", "quack quack", "roar"

Her latest talents include raising her shoulders like a buffalo, stomping like an elephant, clapping like a seal and my ultimate favorite... make a muscle!

She's a hoot. 

My latest strategies to redirect - Coloring!  Which includes me taping large amounts of paper to the counter top.  Finger Painting! - Oh so messy...but we've mastered the clean up. Chalk drawing! - Thanks goodness for the shaded patieo and of course water!  Lately when I go to get her from her crib, she clasps her hands together and tries to wave them around like a fish.  This means she wants to swim.  Sadly our last swim class is next week.  She really did love it.  I can't believe how fast the summer is coming to an end.  I guess you could say this was her first true summer :).  I'm so glad she got to see the beach this summer too.

Marlow finally moved into the big girl bathtub this month and she couldn't be more excited for bath time.  In our defense, we have a very large oversized sink.  We finally gave up the sink when there began to be more water on the floor instead of the sink :(.  My favorite part of the bath is wrapping her up in a hooded towel and then attempting to chase her down while singing The Imperial March.  She looks like a little Darth Vader with a towel cape behind her.

Let's see if I can remember some words she's saying now...  she'll say just about anything you tell her.  There's no way I can remember all of them but here are some fun or new ones.

"Amen!"

"Mama"
"Dada"
"Nana"
"PoPo"
"Bampa"
"MehMeh"
"Auuud" Which is for Audrey
"Bell" For Bella
"Ta" Auntie Tammy

Usually she'll say her friends names like LiLi, Ad-um, Claire...

Funny words
"Uppa" (Up)
"Wok" (Work) sadly she knows this so well because she ALWAYS asks me where daddy is but then answers for me with "Wok".
"Chuk" (Chalk)
"Car"
"Uth-Oh" for some reason she uses this for open
"Wah Wah" (Water)
"Milk" - she just started saying this clearly

Greetings she uses
"Hi!" love this
"Adios"
"BYE!"
"Olah" (Hola)

More summer highlights...