One and a Half Years Old

Today Jayla Adisyn turns 18 months old, officially making her a year and a half. I feel like the first 6 months of her life went by so slow and since she turned one these past 6 months flew by. She is a little spit ball of fire and keeps, both mama and daddy, on our toes. She is full of so much personality, there is not a moment that goes by that she is not making us laugh. I know every parent says this about their kids, but she really is so smart. We really don't think of her as a baby, but as a little girl now.

Here are some of the reasons we think Jay is one smart cookie:

She has been talking for quite sometime and within the past two weeks she can literally repeat everything we say. Time for us to watch those not so good words, if you know what I mean. I still keep a list running of the words she says, but at this point just know she can say just about anything. She is a little parrot, just like her friend Lo. It's about time :).

She even asks for things by saying "pease (please)" to everything. For example: "pease tookie", "pease bee" (her bee crackers), "more pease". It makes it hard to say no when she is saying please!!

She is very good at naming all the different animals and the noises they make.

She can count to 5.

She can point to your eyes, ears, nose, mouth, toes, tootsies (feet), hair and tells you them by name while doing this all on her own.

She loves, LOVES to sing songs. Even though you can't understand the words she is trying to sing, she sings loud and clear while dancing around.

She is even showing signs of being ready for the big potty. She says "pee pee" and runs to the potty and wants to take off her diaper so she can sit on the potty. Nothing has come out yet but it's a start. She also has brought me her diaper a few times with poop in it. I know this sounds gross, but it is not that often that she does not have some sort of bottoms on over her diaper. But when she is just free diapering it, she brings me her poopy diaper so she can get a new one on. Thankfully she doesn't get any poop on her in the process. She also tells me when she has went poo-poo. Usually I smell it on her first and ask her if she went poo-poo and she shakes her head and says "ya".

She is a big fan of saying no and pointing at the same time, this mostly comes out when she is yelling at the dogs. Yes mama and daddy yell at the dogs a lot.

She can also tell you how old she is. All you have to do is ask her and she will point up her one finger with a big smile.

She is very good at helping put away her toys where they belong. No she doesn't do it on her own, but if I ask her to help me clean up she knows right where everything goes. She even does a better job then her daddy ;).

Our favorite thing she does is tells us "I wah u". Her daddy worked on that one for awhile and now she tells us it all on her own. Makes all the tough times as being parents well worth every second. Even though we had know doubts she loved us, it is so sweet to hear the words.

~I know I am missing a lot of what she does, but you guys get the point on how smart Jayla is, or at least her proud parents think so :)~

Here is my little 18 month old muffin, this morning, saying "cheese".

Mama let her pick whatever she wanted for breakfast (it is her day to celebrate)

She picked her honey graham bees, of course.

We have her well check appointment at 4 today. So I will give everyone stats on how that all goes later.

~Happy 18 months, big girl!! We love you more than words can say and are so proud of you.~

~Also Happy 18 months to Jay's best friend Lo. We love and miss you. Can't wait to see you on Thursday!!~