Finley at 18 Months

LOVES:

 - Whole milk

 - Water activities (pool, bath, water table, etc.)

 - Animals

 - Hikes

 - Pushing strollers, carts, etc.

 - Trampoline

 - Oatmeal and most breakfast foods (but not toast and eggs right now)

 - Playgrounds

 - Drinking water

 - Hugs and kisses

 - All desserts

 - Playing in dirt and sand

 - Pat-a-Cake and other songs with motions

 - Her Sloth (sleep lovey)

 - Giving head bonks

DISLIKES:

 - Being hungry

 - Most vegetables and meats and a lot of food she used to love, haha

 - Lou taking toys from her

 - Getting her diaper changed right when she wakes up

 - Being told "no"

FIRSTS/SKILLS:

 - Signs ("more", "milk"), "all done", "cold", "hot", "book"

 - Says (hi, mama, dada, uh oh, no, banana, shh), hot, dog, yes/yeah, nose, ear, eyes, hair, toes, good job, Lou/Lou Lou, and a few others that I'm sure I forgot!

 - Knows a few animal sounds when asked

 - Plays Pat-A-Cake

 - Can locate multiple body parts when asked, and constantly pokes your own face to point them out - nose (her favorite), mouth, teeth, ear, hair, eyes, toes, belly button, elbow

 - Folds her arms to pray

 - Climbs onto chairs, couches, tables, etc.

 - Walks backwards 

 - Gives high fives, then knuckles, then "doodle doodle doo" (finger wiggles)

RANDOM NOTES:

 - Weight:

 - Height:

 - Wears size 3 diapers, and is mostly in 12 months clothes, with a few larger things.

 - Has 14 teeth, with four of them being molars. Just missing a couple canines!

 - Throws hilarious little tantrums where she shouts "no", stomps away, and pouts and ignored you. Thankfully they usually only last about one minute before she's loving on you again.

 - Pulls her bangs out of her face occasionally, and it is so cute to see

Newest schedule with some big changes! At 16 months, we completely dropped nursing. It was just a tiny bit sad, but not much. To be honest, though I sometimes enjoyed the quiet time with Finn, I was never a mom who just adored nursing. But we dropped it very slowly over the course of a few months, and it went really well! No tears or tantrums from either of us ;) Then at 17 months, after a lot of back and forth, we officially just went cold turkey and switched to one nap from two. And though she still often starts rubbing her eyes by 11 am ish, she is happy and goes down for a nap quickly and happily at 1. Her naps are still only about an hour and half, but I'm hoping they'll lengthen soon to at least two hours.

8:00 am - Wake up

8:30 am - Breakfast with whole milk

12:15 pm - Lunch with whole milk
1:00 pm - Nap
4:00 pm - Snack 
6:00 pm - Dinner with whole milk
7:15 pm - Bedtime routine
7:30 pm - Bed

This age is honestly one of my favorites. Finley is learning new things every single day and I love it! She is soaking in so much new information, trying new things, and showing my how much she learns without any intervention from me at all. She is learning new works and skills regularly, I know this time will go by so fast! I know that by the time Finley turns two in just some short months, she will be so different!