I can't believe she is 19 months old!!

There are days when I still feel like Maya was just born yesterday.  I look at her and can’t even begin to believe that she is already 19 months old.  Where does the time go?  Although I feel like she just got here I also can’t remember what life was like without her.  I feel like I’ve always known her and she has always been a part of our life.

She is doing so many new things.  Independence is her big thing right now.  She has to do everything by herself.  She has to eat her food all by herself, walk up and down the stairs by herself, tackle the slide without any help, to name a few.  She gets upset if you try to help her with something she feels like she can do all by herself.   She is even trying to dress and undress herself.  I still have to help her but she is starting to the get the hang of it.

Eating yogurt all by herself.

Trying to decide if she can do it by herself.

Another big change recently is her vocabulary.  Over the last few months she has gone from only a few words to well over 100 and a few 2 word phrases.  She will pretty much try to repeat anything you say to her.  A few of my favorites right now are statue, vacuum, shower, right back, and “my mumma” (which is what she always calls me!!).  Not only are the number of words she can say growing but she is starting to perfect a few words too.  For example she used to say “da du” for duck but now says “guck”.  She can talk you ear off, I still especially love when she babbles and laughs at her own jokes.

One thing that bugs me about this age are her temper tantrums.  Boy can she throw a fit.  I think we have a little drama queen on our hands.  Luckily she isn’t crazy with the fit throwing (most of the time).  Usually she is pretty easy going and good.  However, when she doesn’t get her way and is feeling a bit emotional the screams come out, the crying starts and into fit mode she goes.  It can sometimes drive me crazy.

I am still breastfeeding her before bed, although I am starting to get sick of it so I think I’ll start weaning her soon.  She is very attached to it but I think she’ll do okay.  I’m proud of myself for sticking with it even with a rough start.  I know it did her and I both a lot of good.

Her appetite is awesome.  She eats really well at all her meals.  I’m so glad her extreme pickiness went away.  There isn’t much she won’t eat now.  A few of her favorites are a bagel with cream cheese, cheese stuffed pasta, bread of any kind, fruit of any kind, tomatoes, cheese, chicken and anything sweet.  So far her nut allergy hasn’t posed to much of a problem yet.  We read the labels carefully and haven’t come across too much that we wanted to buy but couldn’t.

It is hard to believe that she will be two in just 5 months.  I know a lot is going to change between now and then.  I can already see more of the little girl in her and less of the baby.  I can’t wait to see what she does next.

Such a little ham