Felicia: Eighteen Months

Felicia turned 18 months on New Year's Day. She is ready for nursery at church and has been going off and on for a couple of months. (Technically her first day of nursery is Trixie's first day of Sunbeams, but since we had Felicia going a bit early to nursery the girls did overlap a few weeks.)

Felicia's words include:

• DA! (Always shouted, and always enthusiastic. Applied to many people, not just her dad.)
• Ma
• Buh-bye
• Mmm (more)
• Ashes, ashes (while spinning around)
• All fall down (not really clear, but in the context it is obvious)
• Thank you
• Uh oh
• Nigh-nigh (night night)
• I do!
• Peek-a-boo
• Hi-ya
• Hewwo
• She might also say Ike's real name. It's still a little unclear.

Felicia is my most "into stuff" child. I can usually find her emptying cabinets and drawers or digging around in garbage cans for a tasty morsel. She also eats a lot of food off the floor. (Usually food that she just spent an entire meal time chucking onto the floor.)

Also, everything is a phone.

Felicia loves:

• Eric
• talking on the computer to Eric's parents
• going outside
• being picked up and held
• wandering around and meeting people at social gatherings
• going to bed
• her binkie
• running
• the songs we sing for Family Night, specifically "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam" and "I Can be Valiant."
• taking baths

And here are some pictures of her from the last six months:

Emptying cabinets:

At the Ashton Gardens:

Camping near and hiking in Arches National Park for fall break:

Family Pictures