Kailah 18months

Kailah is 18 months old now which means she is now in nursery at church! Yay! Even though she is allowed to go in by her self, I am still going to go in with her probably through the end of the year.  She has done really great in there, it's interesting to see how she is starting to take direction and listening to the teachers, well choice listening I should say.  There are so many kids in her nursery I feel bad for the leaders that are in there. 

Kailah is now drinking from a cup all by herself.  I still only give her water from a cup cause she still spills, but I am so proud to see her do this, It's one of those things that just makes you realize what a little girl she is and that she is not a baby anymore.  Although she's still my little baby and I still try to hold her and cuddle her, even though she hates it when I try to.

I think it's safe to say that she is officially off the BINKA! another YAY! Well sometimes it's a "Yay!" and other days it's a "Where the HECK is that DANG BINKA!" LOL!  I wasn't planning on totally losing the binky, but that's exactly how it happened this time, we LOST the binky. I can not find it anywhere, I have searched this apartment high and low and I just can't seem to find it.  So no more binka for Kailah.  Since not having a binky around, Kailah has had shorter nap times during the day, but she actually sleeps better at night. She used to wake up in the middle of the night wanting her binky and now that she doesn't have one it seems she understands that and she goes right back to sleep.

Kailah loves to talk, as usual, and some of her new favorite words are "bubbles", "water", "apple" and still "shoe".  She also is learning peoples names, and learning more body parts like shoulders and knees.
She knows how to fold her arms and close her eyes and can almost do it through a short prayer.  She enjoys learning new songs and going outside to play especially when there are other kids around. 
Kailah loves to play with her daddy and get lots of tickles. she likes to jump off the ottoman and have daddy catch her.  She loves playing games and getting chased or chasing other kids, even when the other kids don't realize she is chasing them. :D

We had our first real shoe shopping experience, went to payless, let her try on all the different shoes, and let her choose which ones she likes.  I am now trying to hold up two options and let her choose.  We went to the dollar store and I held up a few coloring books and she chose the one she liked, Sesame Street.  And at Blockbuster last night I held up Baby Einsteins, Barney, Elmo etc... I showed her  lots of different movie covers for kids and we chose a few she seemed to like the covers of or was just holding a lot.  We ended up getting Baby Einstein's  but she is familiar with Rocket who is one of the characters.

I haven't been taking a lot of pictures of Kailah lately.  I think I have kind of given up on this stage and getting her to look at the camera.  I'm a little mad at myself tho cause I feel like I have missed so many cute moments.  I am going to be better at taking candid pictures of things we are doing throughout everyday.  Now that I have my dslr camera I hate pulling it out just to take a snapshot, but I do have a camera on my iphone so I am going to try and take more photos that way, so I can capture every moment.

The last 6months have flown by so quickly I don't even know what happened to it.  This past week I made a special effort to just spend quality time with Kailah for a whole day.  We went out to lunch and went to the park and the water fountain.  I had a lot of fun and I know she did too.

I can't believe I ever used to wake up early with Kailah. Before we officially lost the Binka, Kailah had been waking up in the middle of the night and then up for the day around 6:30-7am.  That week I was SOOO tired. I just woke up grabbed the bag of cheerios, put in yo gaba gaba and I went back to sleep on the couch while Kailah was having her breakfast from the bag and being entertained by a movie.

Jason and I have never been the type to like animals or characters on clothing for little kids. We always try to dress Kailah in big kid clothing.  My Mom bought Kailah these Ariel winter pajamas and they aren't our style at all, but we put Kailah in them and she looked SO dang cute!  I think I might be ok with characters on pj's only! oh and underwear when we get to that point. :)

I'm trying to find new shows for Kailah to watch.  We don't have cable so I am scouting out all the movies out there that is for her at this age.  Our friends introduced us to Yo Gaba Gaba and she seems to really like that. And we rented a few from Blockbuster, I am interested to see if she ends up really taking to one certain character like some kids do.

I LOVE this stage and HATE this stage.  I seriously think God makes babies so cute at this stage because they are the biggest pain in the butt.  Even though Kailah does super cute and funny things, she is throwing fits and screaming and needing lots of attention.  Next to teaching Kailah how to nurse, disciplining has been one of the hardest things I have had to do this far in her life.  It's not that it's hard for me to hear her cry in her room, it's hard for me to have to repeat and repeat and repeat the disciplining because she doesn't always understand yet.  I'm sure it will sink in, I just can't wait until it does.