dear stella,
you are a year and a half! pretty sure the past six months whizzed by in the blink of an eye. we were just barely celebrating your big day, and now you’re already halfway to your next one. make it stop.
you, my dear, are the brightest light in the world. you are always beaming, smiling, happy, friendly, chatty, and oh so sweet. you really have the best demeanor and it’s impossible to not give back a huge smile in return to your huge, gap-toothed grin.
you are petite, with short skinny legs and but a poochy bum and belly. you shake your hips when you walk. you love to walk. and run. and climb. oh, how you love to climb. on EVERYTHING! you are such a monkey. you go to gymnastics with your dad, every tuesday, and you absolutely love it. free reign to climb on all the things. you are one tough cookie. you fall often, and bonk your head, run into things, take a tumble.. but you never cry for long and get right back up again. you are very resilient.
you recently had your 18 month checkup, where you literally cried the entire time. you don’t cry often, but when it comes to the doctor’s office, you are all tears. it’s so sad, because the doctors and nurses don’t get to see how sweet you are! you are just absolutely terrified of that place. but they checked you out and made sure you are healthy, which you are! you are 23 lbs 1 oz, which is the 56th percentile for weight. you are 31.5" tall, which is the 39th percentile for height. your head is 18.5" around, which is the 70th percentile.
you are super smart and don’t miss a beat. you may not talk a whole lot (well, not a lot of what we can understand, at least..) but you know exactly what everyone is saying. when we ask you to do something, you will do it. go throw this away, go grab your pajamas, go give fox a kiss.. you do it all. you know what we are saying, and it’s so exciting to see you catch on to everything.
as far as talking goes, your favorite word is, "yeah!" and you say it with a high-pitched tone.. and say it to basically every question we ask you. you don’t say "no".. yet.. thank goodness. you also say shoes (you’re obsessed with them), cheese, dad, mom, nan (for nana sue), dah (for dog/penny), buge (rhymes with "luge") for brushing your teeth, hi, all gone, down, and a whole SLEW of words we can’t quite make out. lots of jibberish. it’s cute and funny.
you can point to most of your body parts – your eyes, nose, ears, hair, cheeks, mouth/lips, belly, hands, and feet. you love to play peek-a-boo, this-little-piggy, and horsey. you love holding hands and pulling around whoever will go with you. you shriek really loud when you can’t get the attention you are after.
you are suuuch a great sleeper! you love to go to bed. you will bring us your sleep sack and basically ask to be put to bed. you go down without a fuss and sleep for about 10-11 hours each night. you take one nap each day, ranging from 1-3 hours depending on the day. you are rarely cranky and do really well with this sleep schedule. sometimes we are busy going and doing, but you are super easy going, so pushing your nap back or sleeping in the car will usually work for you.
you love to eat! you have most of your teeth, and are real good at chewing. you will try anything we put in front of you, and you will always run to the fridge screaming, asking us to open it up so you can survey the options and point to whatever suits your fancy for the moment. it’s usually a babybel cheese. but you also love having your own little baggie of cereal or crackers. some other favorites are broccoli, dad’s spaghetti, chicken nuggets, oatmeal, mac & cheese, strawberries, kombucha, and la croix. you love having your own can of la croix and are actually quite good at drinking from a can on your own. you still have milk about 2-3 times a day… and still out of a bottle. we tried for a sippy cup and you were not having any of that. we are suckers.
you love imitating fox. you look up to him so much, and love him the most. you want to be just like him. he makes you laugh all the time, and it’s music to my ears. i hope you two always get along. you love to read stories, play kitchen, and swing. you are happy and content doing whatever the rest of the crew happens to be doing at the moment.
stella bella boo, we are so lucky to have you in our family. you really complete us and life is just the best with you in it. i love you to the moon.
love, your momma
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