19 months!

Chloe has turned 19 months and has sustained her rascal'ness.  It's fun seeing her moving from being a tiny little thing and growing to a  little bitty thing.  She talks and talks from morning until bed time.  When she makes her first calls to get out of bed (still between 6-7:30), she's talking to us right as we open the door.  There's always a bahbah dada when she knows we're coming to get her.  It's a nice way to start the day.  Since our last post, she's started figuring out what a potty is for and has even gone an uno y dos a few times.  We aren't interested in pushing her along and will be happy if she has it totally figured out in a year or so.  Usually, she's already gone, but she'll grab her diaper and says over and over -- "Baffroom."  We were able to get her to the potty a couple of times.  We sit her on the potty before baths and she'll sit there for 10 minutes drawing on the tub and getting up and down over and over.  She is not too shy to sprint around the house with a nakeybutt either.

We've come up with a BINGO song for Chloe that we don't want to forget.  It goes a 'lil something like this - Ahem...
There was a mommy who had a baby and Chloe was her name-ooo
C-H-L-O-E; C-H-L-O-E; C-H-L-O-E;
and Chloe was her name-oo.

It is amazingly clever, we know.   She can't stand when doors and drawers are open, so she closes them as soon as she can.  She likes keeping herself busy by opening and closing them, too.  She's about 2 or 3 inches shy of being able to open doors with the handles.  She really likes trying.  Probably the funniest thing she picked up this month is that if mommy sneezes, she yells out a "BESS YOU".  She usually does it when people cough or sneeze -- with a lot people there isn't much difference.

She's also figured out a slew of new words.  Here are some that we were able to write down or remember:

• Why? -- when you answer her it tends to go on for quite a while
• Where's it at? 
• Hi Da-Da! - She yells this to both Daddy and Mommy
• I want See See for Sesame Street
• I want BubbaGuppah -- Bubble Guppies
• I want a coo cah or I want a crakaw -- I want a cookie or cracker  (from morning until night)
• I want down
• Down and Up -- sometimes she gets them backward 
• A, B, C, D -- She brought this out of nowhere when were laying in bed one morning
• 1,2,3 -- Happened the same morning as A,B,C,D
• If you ask her where something is she'll answer Ummm, I dunno
• What's this
• I want 'dis
• Lots of fake laughing -- especially if we have company over
• OWWWWW -- she's very dramatic if something happens to bump into her

A few other notable things she's done is that she was able to go on her first sledding trip with the cousins, aunt Veronika, and Gramma.  She loved it.  She wasn't quite sure why we would want to play in cold and wet snow at first, but she stopped asking questions when we scooted down the hill.   She found out she loves bananas and has a fancy taste in perfume.  She tricks Gramma into giving her a spray or two.  Last, but certainly not least, Chloe has turned on her snuggle button this month.  She's always been cute in kissing us and family and friends, but this month she has started really liking to snuggle.  After her bottle in bed with us, she'll lay with mommy and have her rub her back.  When the rubbing stops, she'll wiggle her butt to get mommy to start doing it again.  She also like throwing her arm around our necks and pulling us in closer -- a lot of times it can feel like an aggressive choke hold, but it's still very cute.  The best is when we're laying there and she stares right in your eye and says hiiii dad dah (for mommy and daddy) and pulls you in for a kiss.  She is a rascal.

Some pics!

She's definitely an eyes open kisser. 

Watching my favorite at Grammy and Grampy's

The lake is chilly with all this snow.

One of my first high ponies

Marching down the street!

Hi Dadah

Chloe loooooves her Minnie! 

Chloe had fun smothering her cousin, Mira.  

Our cheesiest baby

eighteen months

We are the proud parents of a one-and-a- half year old!  Sounds so crazy to write.  Chloe Ann is a funny little lady and knows it.  


As you can see, it is becoming harder and harder to get C to stay still long enough to snap a picture.  Below are some of the many out takes.  

 peek-a-boo is much more fun

Here is a list of the fun things C did this month.
-She is sleeping from 7:30-6:30.  We tried moving her to one nap but still wasn’t ready.  She is napping at 9:30 and 2:00.  For 1.5 -2 hours at a time.
-When Mommy lays her in her crib at night she will giggle, look her in the eyes, and then say “night-night.”
-She still sucks her right pointer finger to soothe herself to sleep and will usually cover her eyes with her left arm.
-She only has 8 teeth.
- She loves to eat anything, especially pretzel rods, cheese sticks, asparagus, noodles, beans…
-She found our Christmas candy jar and will try to sneak an M&M any chance she gets.  We caught her one morning with a ring of red and green drool around her mouth…who knows how many she ate.
-New words: Paul, what’s that?, there it is, over there, no mah duba gubadaduba (no more monkeys jumping on the bed), ABBAHH (Abbe from Sesame Street), bless you, Will, Grayson, and nope
-She has just recently learned to climb on the couch by herself, on the ottoman, and on the dining room table.  (I think Isa and Gabi may have taught her this trick last weekend.) She is so proud of herself when she gets to the top of the table.  It is hard to reprimand her because it is so cute.
-Loves to take the junk mail and rip the envelopes into tiny pieces.
-She loves to color, especially with markers! She holds pens and markers like she's really planning on writing something.
-She loves to go into the basement and play on her horse and with Daddy’s guitar.  She thinks it is fun to drop the pick in the inside of the guitar over and over - followed with an "Oh, no!?"  If anything happens serious or not C will say “Oh-NO!!” while making a dramatic frown face.
-She likes kicking her soccer ball around and playing catch.
-Chloe likes to stack her blocks and knock them down.
-She likes to do puzzles.
-She still LOVES books and doesn’t mind if you read the same ones over and over.
-She likes to pick up a phone say “hi...yeah...bye!”
- She loves to do her advent calendar each night before bed.
-She loves to sneak into her bedroom and turn on the space heater.
-She loves to play with her cousins and will get nice and loud.  It is neat to see her playing on her own with them in the basement.
-She hates to ride in a shopping cart and want you to hold her while she pushes the cart around the store.  She’s a rascal.
-She loves purses!!  We definitely have a girly girl on our hands.  She will carry her lunch bag as a purse and does not like any help with it.


Mommy is officially on Winter break!  We are looking forward to spending time with the family and relaxing!  Happy Holidays!

 1st snow of the season.

 Cheese face bright and early in the morning.

 Visiting Mommy at work and helping her grade papers and work on the computer.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

We haven't had any snow YET but we are getting ready for the holidays.  Chloe loves going outside to look at the lights.  She will point and jibber jabber away.

Today, after watching Jenny's wonderful performance Chloe was able to meet up with Santa.  She wasn't too impressed.

Chloe+Malley's=Messy Baby

Last night we took C to get an ice cream sundae.  Our waiter gave her her very own spoon and she just dug in!  We are pretty sure she had more on her than in her mouth.    

 Finger licking good!

Oh, Christmas Tree. Oh, Christmas Tree.

Yesterday, we took a drive to Kriegers, a local grocery store and garden shop in Cuyahoga Falls.  It is just down the road from our old apartment.  We have made it a tradition to get our tree from there for the past three years.

C last year.

This year Chloe was a big help!  She loved running around the tree lot getting wet and muddy.  We picked another cute tree that fits perfect in our cozy living room.  

We set up our tree last night and decorated it today.  Chloe LOVES the round ornaments and literally squealed with excitement when we brought them out last night.  We will definitely be reminding her not to take the "balls" off the tree and throwing them.  

TA DA!

seventeen months

Chloe is 17 months old today!  She is hilarious and continues to crack us up.  The highlights of this month:

•          She loves throwing things in the garbage can in the kitchen.  Yes, still money…

•          She loves climbing the stairs and about half-way she will turn and say, “bye-bye”.

•          She loves playing hide-and-seek.

•          She is definitely a Mommy’s girl this month and will randomly put her hands on my cheeks and give me a kiss.  She follows me all around the house and loves to watch me put my make-up on.

•          She started saying her first sentences!  “Mama I want water.” “I go with you.” “I don’t know.” "What is this?"  She also loves to randomly go around saying the same phrase over and over, "Ah-Ba-Daaaaa!" 

•          She has a new love, Bubble Guppies.  She calls it “Bubba Guppas” The sitter says she will dance and sing along to the opening song.

•          I gave her her second haircut this month.  I may have gotten carried away and cut it much shorter than I had intended but it still looks adorable.

•          She loves to take her socks off when she is in her crib for nap time.

•          She loves our phones and has learned to unlock them.  When she does something to change the screen she will say “uh-oh” and bring us the phone.

•          She loves drawing and coloring.  She was caught doodling on Bapa’s office walls.

•          She loves to rock in rocking chairs.  She will rock back and forth while saying, “rocka-rocka”.

•          She loves our ruffled pillows and will put them on the ground, lay her head down and say “night night”

•          If you are “sleeping” she will come up and give you a kiss to wake you up.

•          If you ask her a question she gives you a “yeth” or a “noooo”. 

•          She will leave the living room and stand by the fridge or cupboard and say “nack” (snack) over and over until we come out. 

•          She will find the remote wherever it’s laying and put it in our lap and say either “theth’y” (Sesame Street) or “Bubbagubbah” (Bubble Guppies). 

 That's her new cheese face.

 CHEEEEEESE!!!

 Showing off her new haircut while she puts daddy's change in her piggy bank.

 Night-night.  Loves for mommy to tuck her in and play her music.

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