Here it is. Today, Little Bug is 18 months old!

It seems Little Bug has “grown up” this month. She is doing fabulous with her no-nos. She knows her boundaries and, for the most part, she respects them.

Her language skills have developed tremendously over the past month. She pretty much can say most words you ask her to say. I am looking forward to the day when she starts stringing these words together and forms sentences.

She can now recognize the letters A, B and D. She is very close to getting C.

We were on a walk the other day (imagine that, huh?) and we walked past a house that had an alarm company sign in the front yard. Little Bug spotted an “A” on the sign and stopped to show me the “A”.

I was wearing a T-shirt that had the letter “D” on it and she pointed to it and said, “D”. She was wearing a onesie that said, “I love Daddy” and she pointed to the “A’s” and “D’s”.

Little Bug still has an extreme fascination with books. I hear “read, read, read” a million times a day! I love it though. Reading to Little Bug is one of my most favorite things we do together.

Little Bug is also trying to learn her colors! We are learning colors by the color doughnuts you see on her arms in the picture above. She can say: red, blue, green, yellow, orange, purple. So far if you ask her what color something is she says, “Yewow”. Everything is yellow!

Little Bug discovered stickers!

Little Bug loves to wear other people’s shoes. She has always loved her shoes and now she loves wearing any pair she can find…no matter how BIG they may be! Those are her Daddy’s shoes she is wearing. It looks like she is dancing in that picture, but she is actually about to fall to the floor.

This is what you get when you ask her, “How strong are you, Little Bug?”

I don’t know how much Little Bug weighs or how tall she is. We have her 18 month check up soon.

She sleeps 11 hours at night and takes a 2 hour afternoon nap.

She still eats like a little pig and is usually the last one to finish eating.

Little Bug looks forward to Dada reading her a Bible story after breakfast.

Little Bug strung together her first 3-word sentence tonight! She said, “No moon Dada.” as she was pointing at the door.

That reminds me … Little Bug loves to look up and find the moon each night.

18 Months. Little Bug is really 18 months old. I know I am going to blink my eyes and tomorrow she will be 18 years.

Happy 18 Months, Little Bug!

- Elaine