At 16 months:
- Carson loves to climb on things. Toys, chairs, the toilet, etc. We have to keep our eyes on her constantly.
- She has started to go up to her brother and hit him. Boo. We had some friends over the other night for dinner and she walked by and pinched one little boy on the arm. Oh dear.
- We have started giving her light spankings on her bottom when she does this to her brother and pops on her hand when she does other things, like playing with an outlet. Well, now if we ask her if she needs a spanking, she gives herself a spanking. You would think we spank the girl all the time. She is silly.
- She is not a great eater. She loves blueberries also known as berrs to her.
- She has 16 teeth. I am not sure if I have mentioned that before, officially, but she has had them all for a few months.
- She is a great sleeper at night but she still refuses to go to sleep without being rocked. I have tried many times to lay her down and rub her back, but she just pops right back up and scream/cries until I pick her back up. She does sleep from around 7:30/8 to 7 every night. Way to go girl!
- She can understand any and all directions we give her. The other day I asked her if she could pick up her cup of milk and turn the TV off. She did both. Adorable. She is learning so quickly.
- She absolutely loves to read. She has become very picky about the books we read. She usually shoots down a number of my choices before I land on one that she actually wants to read. In the book "The Going to Bed Book" there is a part that says "and someone turns off the light". I make a click click sound when I read it to her and she has started doing it before I even get to that part. Adorable.
- We may have talked about this before, but the girl loves to dance. Any time she hears a beat...any beat...she starts bobbing her head, which is soon followed by the rest of her body. It is the cutest thing...especially because she smiles the entire time she is doing it.
- She loves Mickey Mouse, who she calls "Mick," and Minnie Mouse, who she calls "Mimmie" or something similar. She also loved seeing both of them from afar when we went to Disney a couple of weeks ago...but not so much from close up.
- She has started repeating everything she hears now. She was already saying several words last month, but she will say anything she hears...or at least try to say anything she hears. She says - Reed which comes out as "weed", milk - muulk, ball, bird - bur, hot = ot, cup, cheese - eese, Marc - Malk, Jo - doe, hand - aan, book, bear, .
- She has started saying "top it" (stop it) a lot recently, especially in response to her brother driving her bananas. No more tickling, "top it". No more chasing her, it isn't fun anymore, "top it".
- She has been using "no"quite frequently, although sometimes I am not sure if she actually means yes or no. Ha!
