Mattea is now a year and a half! Time sure has flown! She weighs 28 lbs 4 oz and is 35 3/4 inches tall, so still well off the charts for her height but has definitely slimmed down. Those chubby thighs are no longer:-( She has a huge vocabulary and chatters nonstop (not sure where she gets this from???:-P). She seems to think that she is a big girl now and that she should be doing anything and everything that adults are doing. This means that I can't get away with doing any cooking or cleaning without her right by side..."helping":-/.
She loves to read, colour, do puzzles, and cook us all her favourite foods with her kitchen set. Her current favourite book is her Toddler Bible, and she wants us to read over and over that Adam and Eve should NOT TOUCH THE TREE! or they will be sad for disobeying God (I guess she can relate to this?!) Her favourite Christmas gift was a little dolly stroller (its always the $5 gifts that are the winners!), which prompted her to finally embrace her doll. Now that her dollies had a mode of transportation, she quickly named them on her own after girls from her daycare and now Allison and Michelle are subjected to her constant abuse...I mean...tender loving care:-)
But of all the things she likes to do, there is one activity that tops the rest by far! This little girl loves "shows" or "moo-bies"! She gets to watch 1 a day and will sing, dance and chant when she knows its movie time. She is in love with the Backyardigans and has memorized most of her videos and will narrate for us (just in case we didn't know what was going on after seeing it for the 100th time!):-)
Here are a few pics from December (17 months old):
And a few pics from November (16 months old)
