18 Month Pictures

Here is our beautiful girl at 18 months! Oh, we love her! (Even though she's gotten too big too fast)

 This is the dress that I got her for Easter. She totally didn't need another dress, but it's tradition, and Josh seemed to really like it, so I couldn't take it back.

 At the photo shoot, I tried to do 2 different outfits. Lesson learned. Meili is only good for one outfit at this stage in her life. So this is the only decent one we got in the yellow. To me, this picture makes her look so old. It looks like this is her kindergarten school picture-maybe it's the blue background.

What a sweetheart!

At 18 months, Meili's obsession for babies is growing daily. She sleeps with 3 babies every night, she is drawn to dolls everywhere she goes, and if there is a book with a baby in it-no matter how insignificant that baby seems to me, she will find the baby, memorize the page, and demand that we read that book everyday.

She is trying to mimic sounds more and more, and seems to learn a new word everyday. My favorite right now is Roo-like Kango and Roo in Winnie the Pooh.

Her teeth have finally started filling in, and they seem to be growing like crazy. I've lost count, but I would say she has about 10 teeth.

I think she's becoming more familiar with family members. I feel like if I say their names she knows, somewhat, who I'm talking about, and likes playing with her cousins. But she definitely likes her grandmas and grandpas best!


At her 18 month appointment Meili weighed 20.81 lbs (finally big enough for a forward facing carseat, but we will probably wait a little longer anyway.)- which is the 6th percentile. And she is 33 inches-the 86th percentile.

18 Months

These pictures are a little random but my Mom worked really hard to crochet these little shoes for Meili and some of the other nieces, so I had to get a picture of them because they are so cute! Since Meili has decided that it's necessary for her to be in shoes from morning to night, these have come in handy, because she can wear them as slippers instead of wearing shoe-shoes all the time. Win Win!

 Only problem is... she can take them off really easily.

 She's to the age where every time I try to take a picture of her, she tries to play with the camera. What a stinker!!!

And the story of the shirt...
Josh came home one day with 3 shirts and said that he got them at Walmart for $2 a piece. He was so proud of his purchase, but I couldn't lie... this shirt is... how do I say it... not my favorite... maybe a little... ugly... maybe I was afraid it would give Meili nightmares. He thought for sure that she would like it because she loves dogs. I said, that I wasn't even sure that she would be able to tell it was a dog-especially from her perspective, which would be upside down. 


I told Josh that I appreciated his purchases, but she probably wouldn't ever wear this particular shirt out of the house. He said that we could cut off the bow, if I wanted. I told him that the bow isn't the problem. 


Well, one day, that I knew I was going to be in sweats all day, I decided that there was no harm in letting her wear the dog shirt. So I got it out, showed her the dog, and put it on her. Meili couldn't get enough of that dog. All day long, out of the blue, she would point to her shirt and say, "dog!" 


What can I say, she is her father's daughter-clothing is not about fashion it is about making a statement. Josh's statements are usually along the lines of "I like the Yankees" or "I feel good in sweats." Meili's statement today is "I like dogs. All dogs. And I don't care who knows it."

Happy Easter!

Meili got the chance to do 3 different Easter egg hunts, and became quite the pro this year. I posted a picture of my parents' Easter egg hunt last month. These pictures are from Josh's family's hunt. They were nice enough to let the really young kids go outside before the older kids. They also hid the eggs really well-sitting right on the lawn in plain sight! Even in plain sight, we had to work with Meili a little bit for her to find them. But by the 3rd hunt-at our house, and with no competition, she got the hang of it.     

Look at her bucket full!

 Like many kids, as soon as she found an egg, she wanted to get the treats out!

 We celebrated Easter at our house after church. In our house, the Easter bunny brings somewhat religious gifts, along with the candy. So Meili got a quiet book for church, that I was really excited about. The words in the book are "I Am a Child of God," and "Families Can Be Together Forever," and includes pictures in it of everyone on both sides of our immediate family. I'm hoping it will help her learn everyone's name. It also has pictures of the temple, prophets, and Jesus. She's still pretty vain and finds all the pictures of herself and says "baby!" or "Mei Me!" 

 Love this picture! (Especially because Josh looks so bored in the background!)

 What would Easter be without blue Robin's eggs lips!

Hope you all had a great Easter too!