Nineteen Months

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Bailey, Bailey, Bailey. HOW is my baby nineteen months old already? It’s funny now to call you Muffin. You seem so tall and unsquishy (except your cheeks) and you are so brave and spirited and just not much of a baby anymore. I still call you Muffie (and so does Daddy and Grammy) but you know your name is Bailey. If someone asks your name, you tell them “Bay-eee.” It’s so cute.

Your very favorite things to do now are coloring and watching tv. You always ask for either Ernie or Barney videos. I don’t know how you picked those two guys out of all the things you have seen. You don’t like to talk to strangers. Once you warm up to someone you are very chatty, though. We took you to a wedding reception last weekend and you decided the prayer was too long. You started saying Amen quite loudly, and repeatedly, during the prayer. You got a few laughs from people around us but Mommy was a little embarrassed. You also know that you are cute. If someone says the word cute or calls you cute, you give the biggest hammiest smile ever. You enjoy demonstrating your jumping skills. You can hop across a room pretty fast. When you run, you remind me of Phoebe from Friends. I will have to show you that episode sometime. She flails her arms and legs out all crazy to the sides.

Lately, we have been going to the Magic House and the early childhood center and the mall play area, and we have had some playdates and friends houses. You are happiest when you’re out and about. You don’t want to sit still unless it is to color. You don’t even want to sit on my lap to read at bedtime lately. You pretend to sit and read next to your nightlight and then suddenly, you throw your book back in the basket and make a run for the living room. You’re tried that trick several times now. Your language skills are taking off like crazy now. People can understand you even without me translating a lot of the time now. You have a happy, cheerful disposition and endless energy. You never cease to amaze me, frazzle me, surprise me, and you make me the happiest mommy in the world. I love you, Muffie Muff.

Mommy

**I also wanted to update the vocab list- the words in italics were things she was saying before (only now with updated pronunciation),and the new words are in bold. This is really just for my own reference. Also she is combining two words at a time but not very often.

mama
dada
up
more
yes
no
please (pease)
go
moo
nay nay -horse
book (book)
home (home)
bird (birrrd)
ssss -what does a snake say?
roarrrrr -what does a lion say?
owl (owwullll)
hi
fish (shish)
cheese (cheese)
animal (me mi mo)
poop
rock rock -in rocking chair
slide (zide)
Dora (Dor-rahrah)
ah ah ah -what does a monkey say?
ball (ball)
toe
head
arm (ahm)
quack quack (duck duck)
tweet tweet (deet deet)
juice (joosh)
red
blue (bloo00) she can pretty consistently identify blue things
green (geen) at lights she now yells “Geen go! Go! Geen!”
dog
hello (howwo)
Elmo (Emmo)
meow
mom, mommy -instead of mama sometimes, so sad
papa -her great grandpa
help (hep)
OH NO
bad bad bad
Addie
Tiny (Tineh) great grandparents dog
sock
shoes (shoosh)
be bo -our word for belly button, from a Sandra Boynton book
knee
eye
nose (no)
mouth (muh)
ear
frog (fe ra guh) said in three whole syllables
Amen (ahmee)
love you (uvoooo)
bear
milk
more please
milk please
all done (ah done)
all gone (ah gone)
pee
pat -to pat someone on the back
hug
get down (geeeda)
get Dora (geeDorahrah)
tree (tee)
pillow
drink (dit)
penguin (peng)
turtle (turt uh)
cat
bunny
hop
jump (dump)
pumpkin (kump kump)
cup
chicky -for chicken, she loves chicken nuggets
fries (fwies)
baby
Donald (donnow) -McDonalds or Ronald McDonald tub toy
car
mail (meeeul)
man (meeeun) -snowman
flowers (flovversh)
color
paper
pen -pen or pencil
Kohl’s
play (pay)
Avon (A-not)
money
night-night (ny ny)
people
purple
black (blacksh)
yellow (lellow)
Zoe (zsjooo-eh) -from Sesame Street
cookie (cook cook or kee kee) -Cookie Monster
Telly (Tehleh) -from Sesame Street
Ella
Barney
Ernie
Bert
steps (deps)
class (clash)
ring
hair
bow
neck
cheek (keech)
hot
bye bye
scarecrow (geh go)
spoon (poon)
Grammy (Geeny)
Grandpa (Puh Paw)

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