emolychan

 a bit late but finally fall here in NY and the little one turns 19 months. she's learning so much at an even higher exponential rate! much more conscious about what/how we're speaking/acting since it really is like monkey-see-monkey-do. she's such a happy little girl and i don't think i'll ever get over how cute she looks when she's running towards me with such reckless abandon. i think my favorite new things that she's been doing are: wanting to hold hands with both me & carlo when she's out walking sometimes singing to herself (knows parts of the abc song here n there) playing peekaboo with me on the bed (she says 'ka-boo..") she JUST started actually wanting to kiss/hug us out of her own accord recently. UGH ITS TOO CUTE. sitting in my lap (she likes opening and closing my legs) i think her favorite food is probably still noodles. not sure if she likes noodles more than rice. her favorite snack hands down are those baked snap peas becomi

 holy moly, time flies! just like that, we're on our last weeks of summer. 18 months :) late, but we FINALLY weaned her off her baby bottles. she was only having one in the morning but technically this is the latest point that you should be weaning them off because they're developmentally just too old for bottles. she knows how to drink out of straws/cups fine. complained a lot for the first 2 mornings, was OK at the 3rd, and didn't whine too much on the 4th days. i expected a full week to transition so i thought she did pretty good. she's definitely not a baby anymore :( (though my short hair girl still looks like one because she doesn't have much hair, hehe) no new teeth from last month, just the same 4 top front teeth, 2 bottoms, and 4 molars she can eat harder food now (like pickles, raisins, and dried cherries!) she freaking loooves pickles, i let her try some for the first time :) loves practicing stepping up and down steps (especially out on public stairs). d