Sabrina: 18 Months

I wanted to give a Sabrina update because she is so hilarious these days.  She's getting so old and thinks she's 4 like Celia.  She throws an absolute fit if we do anything differently for her than for Celia (like peeling apples because she chokes on the peel or giving her a sippy cup because she spills everything, etc.).  She likes to throw fits, but mainly it's because she doesn't have a lot of words to communicate so she does a lot of screaming and crying when we don't understand (or do understand, but won't fulfill an odd request like moving Celia's plate of food over so she can push it on the floor).  As far as consistent words, she says: Mama, Dad, Light, All Done, More, and Gone.  She will randomly say others that we will then never hear again.  Like yesterday, as we were walking into the grocery store, she pointed to each cart we saw in the parking lot on the way and said "cart" but then she probably won't say that again.  It's happened a lot.  Today, however, she said her first two-syllable word (mama doesn't count because it's the same one twice) and put two words together by herself (all done doesn't count because those two words are always together.  We were eating lunch and I took an apple out to cut it.  She pointed and said "apple."  Then later on, I said: "eat one apple and you can get out."  She pointed to the piece of apple on her plate, looked at me, and said: "bite apple."  I was so proud.  She rarely verbally communicates.  She is the most amazing nodder and head-shaker, however.

Sabrina is also a little helper.  She really likes tasks.  When she was eating candy out of the eggs she found at the hunt, she would eat all the candy and then go throw the egg away (until I told her they weren't trash).  She also likes to start the dishwasher and the laundry.  Sometimes before I'm ready to start them (and then I think I'm going crazy because I don't remember putting soap in and starting it... until I realize at the end of the cycle that I have to put soap in and start it again because it ran without soap).  She's really good at putting her boots away, her clothes in the dirty clothes basket, and putting her dishes in the sink when she's done.  (She also likes putting anything that looks like a dish into the sink even if it is an empty crayon box with the crayons dumped out.)

And she's hilarious.  Right now she's cramming all the waffle on her plate into her mouth just so I'll give her more.  Crazy kid.  We like her.