16 Months…

Sun flares or Cassidy curls? You decide…

Friends, my baby girl is 16 months old! It’s amazing how fast they stop being babies and start being toddlers. Although I can say with 100% sincerity that molars are the worst thing EVER and can really make our days suck, having a 16 month old is by far, the most fun we’ve had so far with Cassidy. She’s so stinking funny! Some of the things she says and does has us in stitches! Here are our 16 month stats:

Still sleeping great! We’re still at around 12-13 hours every night, although, she recently went through a phase where she wasn’t sleeping a full 12 hours. I’ll take it, though! Naps are a struggle. Lately, I’m lucky if I get 30 minutes out of her. Hopefully this phase passes quickly and she’ll start napping better.

Even though she still won’t really let any “new” people hold her, for the most part, she’s gotten over the whole “stranger danger” phase. I took her to a bridal shower last week and she was a little social butterfly! She went from person to person waving and saying “hi!” over and over! She still loves blingy jewelry and will walk up to anyone and play with their pretty necklaces. All the little old ladies at our church just love it.

She’s gotten really good at saying new words. She likes to repeat what we say (uh oh, we’d better watch what we say now!). Some of her newest words are “juice”, “oops” “hi, Bee” (she calls my mom’s dog Bee), ” blankie”, “hot”, and I know there are more, I just can’t remember them all right now! She’s on first name basis with our music minister’s little boy, Drew- she calls him “Dew”. Adorable. Is it too soon to arrange a marriage?

The curls. The beautiful, red curls. I have no idea where they came from, but I LOVE them! And they only get curlier and curlier! She’s really living up to her name, which in fact, means “curly headed girl”. Love my little curly cue!

Still eating like a champ. Not much change there.

She loves to play outside and dig in the dirt. We took her swimming yesterday and she freaked out for a few minutes, but ended up splashing and having a great time after that.

Loves, loves, loves to “count”! Anytime we do most anything, we count it out (ooooone, twoooooo, threeeeee!) and she loves to count along. It usually comes out sounding like, “dooo, doooooooo, DOOOO!”, but we know what she means. She counts out her toys, the silverware in the dishwasher, “ingredients” when she’s “cooking”….she counts all the time and we love it.

She doesn’t have any new teeth this month (we’re still at 9), but she’s working on a new one right now. Fun times.