*¡año y medio!

Vera is officially one and a half!

The last month has been .... on the difficult side. Mostly from adjusting back to pre-holiday schedule, being sick and getting those molars through. She had started to be a pretty good eater - loving broccoli and green beans, but we're back to square one there :( The whole issue with "no!" has been tough too. All part of being a parent, right? We just try to keep consistent and offer her the greens, discipline where needed, love her a lot, etc. I have definitely learned that phases come and go.

She's been a little more herself the last week which we're loving. After she goes to bed we comment to each other that we think she's the cutest little thing in the whole world and share our favorite of the day.

Here is a picture of little Vera Winters at 18 months:

She has more words now that don't take a mom to decipher. She says [with relative clarity] applesauce, elbow, knee, toot [heehee], burp, up, down, off, airplane, bear ...... that's all I can think of.

She says excuse me when she burps or needs to get by you. "Peh say" - I don't know how it comes out like that.

She commented the other week that something was pretty without me saying it first - the snowflakes hanging from the library ceiling :)

When we have guests over [our neighbors, my brother..] she likes to show them everything she can think of: mommy! pizza! chair! bear! boots! and then she'll scoot her bottom up and sit in their laps to be read stories. It's really sweet :)

She can put on her boots and hat and take off her coat. Thankfully she hasn't experimented much with taking off her diaper..

She LOVES winnie the pooh and laughs out loud when he's chased by the bees.

She also loves to have the music on and stands by the stereo asking for misi.

Happy half birthday piñola!