18 Months- Dayvia is One And A Half!!

A year and a half…..

A YEAR AND A HALF?!?!

How did that happen?? She is growing so fast, so TALL, so smart, so beautiful. We are basically obsessed with her.

FIRST CLEAR SENTENCES
"Whas dis?"- (what's this?)
"Mama? Where's da dada?" (da = the)
"Mo peeese"- (more please)

NEW WORDS
"Maddie" or sometimes "Manny" (cousin and her friend Maddie)
"knock knock"
"poo poo"- (when she has to go #2!)
"woah woah woah"
"wait wait wait"

ALL THE WORDS SHE SAYS (i'm probably forgetting a lot)
Mama, Dada, baby, Bubba, ball, book, pay (play), shoes, socks, onside (outside), mo (more), peeese  (please), gahsahs (gracias), thank you, seep (sleep), oh no!, nana (banana), apoo (apple), pear, muk (milk), aqua, kakaw (cracker), feeesh (goldfish crackers), cheese, dooce (juice), pissa (pizza), fok (fork), Dash (her friend), Raydoo or Ach (aunt rachel), Elmo, sit, walk, gas (grass), eyes, nose, hair, teeth, ears, feet, toes, hands, knees, chin, mowwwse (mickey/minnie mouse), counting to 10

FAVORITE FOODS
Maccaroni and cheese
Pizza
Broccolini with lemon, garlic, and salt
Black bean soup

FAVORITE TOYS
Little figurine dolls. Specifially superman, wonder woman, mickey mouse, minnie mouse, Princess Sofia and her friends.

FAVORITE TV SHOWS
Princess Sofia
Sesame Street

FAVORITE BOOKS
Pajama Time
Goodnight Gorilla
Goodnight Moon
Dora Goes To The Beach

FAVORITE ACTIVITIES
Going to the park
RIE class
Mommy/Me at Temple Beth Hillel
MyGym 
Playing outside in the backyard
Taking walks in the neighborhood

BEST FRIENDS
Dash Wanger (18 months)
Roma Bloom Willis  (18 months)

DEVELOPMENTS
Counts to 10 in english! Can count to 10 in spanish with some assistance. 
Dayvia loves to pretend. All she wants to play with are her dolls or anything kitchen related. She feeds her dolls, bathes them, covers them with a blanket. And then she whips something up for dinner with her bowl and whisk and pours lots and lots of drinks and "sips" them. 


This month cousin Maddie came to spend the weekend with us! Maddie is a special kid. She is incredibly generous, compassionate, intelligent, and responsible. Sometimes she will be talking and I'll look at her and think, YOU'RE TEN! How are you so wise??!! AND- Maddie came up with the name Dayvia- so she's super creative and we owe her for picking the coolest most unique and beautiful name EVER!!!  :)

Dayvia's due date was one day before Maddie's birthday, so one day I had this conversation with Mads.

Mimi: You know there is a possibility that the baby will be born on your birthday, how do you feel about that?
Maddie: Oh! It's great!!! That would be the best birthday present ever!! Plus… we'd save money on parties!

Maddie is always making us laugh with her quick comebacks and memorable one liners.
Two of my favorite moments from the weekend were these:

(saturday morning at breakfast)
We sat down at the table, Mike wiped down the high chair, I put the disposable place mat down, we wiped her hands, put on her bib, set her up with her toys while we waited to order.
Maddie- "so…yeah….this is a lot harder than I thought. I mean, I just thought… you sit down, you give her some food."

(saturday night, 10:30pm, Mike and I just got home from Erin & Mike's wedding.)
Maddie had stayed up with the babysitter and Dayvia who wasn't sleeping. We open the door and Maddie comes to greet us. Her hair is in a messy side bun, her eyes are half closed, she has the look of a new mother adjusting to lack of sleep. She says, "good. you're home. I'm going to bed."

We love you Maddie!!! Come stay with us anytime!!!!!

The month was full of fun times. Maddie, Bubba & Grandpa, some time with Aunt Rachel, play dates and lots of time outside.
We are enjoying the end of summer… although it is HOT and it feels like summer is here for a while longer!

Dayvia Hope- you are our joy!!

Mimi, Dayvia, Maddie

Playdough with Bubba

Lunch with Roma and Lia

""make a silly face" series

She loves avocado rolls!

"You all just go ahead and follow the silly directions… i'll observe."

Pizza night with Aunt Rachel

Flu shot… more upset about the bandaid than the shot!

"Oh Roma…."

Dinner date with Dash