18(ish) months

Ok, Kate is now 19 months. So I missed the big year and a half update. Now that I am just sitting around relaxing all day I have plenty of time to do it. All the things I want to remember about Kate at 19 months.

SHE IS SO SWEET!

This is her "Bear". Kate loves him and takes VERY good care of him. Puts him to bed every night. Feeds him snacks. Nurses him. And is showing him the ocean in the bottom picture.

Kates language is exploding right now. She repeats EVERYTHING you say. I love listening to her speak Portuguese with Dave and Leah. And she absolutely LOVES to sing. This girl is ALWAYS singing. She wakes up singing in the morning and falls asleep singing at night. ABC's, Twinkle Twinkle,  Black Sheep, Bitsy Spider, and many random Portuguese songs that I don't know the names of. I keep trying to get her singing on video but her fascination with the camera prevents this!

She counts all the time too. Counts the trees, the toys, the pieces of peanut butter sandwich on her plate. She has 1-10 down pat in both languages but after that it becomes an adorable blur of English and Portuguese from 11-20. Again I need video to capture the cuteness. Working on it!

Another reader. I wondered if Kate would share Leah's obsession with books. She does! Kate loves to read. She will sit and listen to as many books as you will read to her. She has many of her favorites memorized and likes to "read" them to us. Kate is quickly learning her alphabet and staring to learn the sounds the letters make now too. I never realized how much I would enjoy this part of parenting. It's so deeply rewarding for me.

I am still nursing Kate. She is very different form Leah in this regard. When Leah was about 16 months old she just decided one day she didn't want to nurse anymore. The next few days were VERY painful!
Kate on the other hand will nurse for an hour at a time if I let her. She has no plans for slowing down or quitting anytime soon. It's nice for me, it makes me relax and enjoy time together. I usually read a book to Leah or one for myself while she nurses. The house is almost always a disaster.

This trip Kate has become very close to her Grandmothers. We are so very lucky they were both able to join us again this year. I really have no idea how we could pull this trip off without them! It's going to be a hard transition for both girls when we return home.