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Lydia update - 19 months

I really love this age. Lydia is pretty easy as far as care these days and she hasn't hit the terrible twos yet so she is always such a joy to be around. Lately she had been imitating her brother more and more and they are often found pretending to be dogs together or playing kitchen together (we scored a free play kitchen from our neighbor and a toy bin shelf too!).

Lydia got her top eye teeth right around the time she turned 18 months but I guess I didn't mention it in the last post. So she just needs the bottom two eye teeth now.

Lydia also started saying multiple word phrases shortly after she turned 18 months. She says "thank you" a lot (seriously, every time you give her something) and "here you go" and "up please." She repeats a lot of words too. She also has words for popsicle, swimsuit, and napkin although you have to hear them in context to get what she is saying.

I think I'm starting to see the beginnings of the "twos" in some of her behaviour though. She is starting to get upset more when she doesn't get her way and give me these frantic looks of indignation if she can't get what she wants. But the please and thank yous are much more common. She still uses signs along with some words (please, milk, help) I think as a way of putting more emphasis on her requests.

Besides loving to play with Dylan, Lydia wants to be around him all the time. It's getting harder to separate them for bedtime now. The first thing she says in the morning after "MOMMY" (i.e., mommy come pick me up) is "Dill." That's what she calls him. Dylan had to have a time out at the pool the other day and she wanted to go to. She follows him into the potty (which I'm hoping with help with the potty training) and can't stand when he is out of her sight. She's always putting on his shoes too. It's pretty cute. Dylan likes hanging out with her too and rarely wants her to leave him alone. Lydia has come to love Dylan's girl friend Anna and knows her name and gets excited to go over her house.

Lydia's hair is getting really long and most days I just put a Pebbles-like ponytail on the top of her head because that's all she will keep in. She pulls the bows out.

Lydia can hold a pencil better than most 2nd-graders I know! I have some pictures that I will post in my Summer 2010 album soon. She's amazing and I have to remember to allow her time to develop that since that's something that Dylan has no interest in and thus we rarely do it.

I still feel like Lydia is my baby though.