19 Months Old

Miss Maddy Moo is 19 months old today!

She wasn't making this face until the camera was pointed at her.

She spent much of this month perfecting her bubble-blowing skills.  We don't know how she learned how to do this.  She just did it one day.

This month was a turning point in Ben & Maddy's relationship.  Ben is realizing that he has the power to make Maddy laugh.  Maddy is realizing that she has the power to irritate the snot out of Ben and that it's kind of fun.  Oh, and in the background of this photo, her favorite show Oobi is on the TV.  She asks for it by saying "beh."

She has been sticking her tongue out while drinking through a straw.  Apparently this is because of her low muscle tone.  She's also a bit behind in speech development because of low muscle tone.  I started taking her to speech therapy a couple weeks ago.  It's been going really well - no screaming from Maddy, and she's babbling more and has started saying a few more new words.  She's still doing great in her early intervention class.

One of her new words is "hat," although she just says "at."  I got her a new headband, and when I put it on her head she patted it and said "at!"

I was so happy to take the family to a cookout with our local LPA chapter.  Maddy was less happy.  She was okay until they did a group photo of the kids and she had a meltdown.  This photo was well after that, but she was still freaked out.

I found something she dislikes even more than group photos at a cookout: the bathtub.  Since she's been sitting up so well lately, I thought I'd try to do a "big kid" bath in the tub instead of in her reclining toddler tub.  Huge mistake.  After this photo, I washed her hair and she tried to climb out of the tub.

She put Ben's sunglasses on by herself.  Both the sunglasses and her pacifier are upside down.  She is almost as much of a goofball as her brother is.