You are 16 months old!

Wow! I know I've said it before, but time flies. You are definitely all Toddler! You have really come into your own and have so much personality - although you've been full of personality from day 1. You love to express your opinion and normally answer all my questions with a very sweet "no". It actually cracks me up. You are talking more and more. You can repeat a lot of words back to us. You've been saying cracker, snack, go, down, etc. You love to make toasts with your sippy cup. We always hold up our drinks, say Cheers!, and clank the cups together. You still love singing your ABCs and are getting better at it. You love music and "dance" whenever a tune catches you by swaying back and forth and smiling. It is THE cutest thing. You still love playing outside and we've been lucky to have great, warm weather this fall. We walk up and down our street and around the culdesac. You like to ride your cozy coupe and also pull your wagon. You love love love animals - especially Shelby and Kitty. One day you almost fed Shelby an entire bag of dog treats because it was so much fun. He didn't mind at all. You are taking baths in the big girl tub now and that is a real treat. You just splash away and have a ball. It's a nice time for us to spend together too. Every once in a while you will stand up and splash with your feet. You have become quite a snacker and love to ask for yogurt, graham crackers and other treats. You always share with us and like to feed us. We have been learning the parts of our face and you love to point to your nose, ears and eyes. You have an absolute obsession with pens, markers, crayons and anything you can write with. When you do get hold of something like that, you walk around pretending to write things. Your favorite toy right now is your megablocks/legos. You love to build things and also knock things down. Daddy hung up your swing for you from one of the trees in our yard. You loved it and kept saying "Weeeeeeee". You were not happy when it was time to get out of it. We are getting closer to the holiday season and it is so exciting. Well, that is a good recap of what you are doing at this moment in time.

Happy Halloween!

This Halloween turned out to be cold and rainy, but you still had fun dressing up and playing with your cousins. You are still too young to realize you missed anything, but next year we will plan on doing lots of trick or treating! Here are a few pictures from Halloween night and from the Fall Festival at daycare. Daddy also carved a pumpkin, but you weren't interested. We will try that again next year too.