Saturday, January 15, 2011

Mattea - 18 months old


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)



2 comments:

Darla said...

She is sooooo CUTE! That pic with the boots from Nov takes the cake. That is the cutest outfit I've ever seen! Wish we were closer! She really must have thinned out...Grey is only 1 lb lighter than her now!

Lauryn said...

Thanks:-) I think she is pretty cute too but of course that is just mho and I might be slightly biased:-)

and if you ever want to slim down your kid...put them in daycare:-/ Poor baby was constantly sick with colds and even the stomach flu! I was looking back and she hasn't really gained any weight since she started. So sickness combined with running around means that she is now rockin' her skinny jeans and leggings! Although I much preferred the big fat thighs in tight little pants:-)

And I wish we were closer too! Mattea would love hanging out with her cousins!