18 Months Old...A YEAR and a HALF!!!

Ashley Jane- 17 Months Old

Here Ashley and Grandma stare into the lake...my guess is that they were talking about the big bass I was about to catch. Yep, I won the contest and caught the first and the biggest fish of the night. See the big raft in the background? Grandpa Randy bought that for the weekend...it has a mesh bottom, sits 4 and comes equipped with a floating cooler. Ashley enjoyed every moment in the raft and bounced from Grandma to Grandpa to Momma to Daddy.

Here Ashley enjoys her very first DQ cone in a cup. She of course LOVED it.

We took Ashley to the Ki Chi Saga celebration a few weekends ago. The festivities included an old farmer who packs all kinds of farm animals and household pets into the smallest trailer you've ever seen. Ashley enjoyed following the animals around and playing with the bunnies.

Here's Ashley scootin' around the house in her ducky slippers.

See all of her beautiful teeth? She's got 12 teeth now!

Ashley had to bring a family photo into daycare to put into the daycare photo album. I searched high and low for a recent picture of the three of us and couldn't find one. We have tons of pictures of Ashley, a few of her with either Matt or I but none of the three of us. Anyhooooo, that prompted us to take a quick family photo while we enjoyed a beautiful day at Ashley's friend Elsa's, 2nd birthday party.

Here's Ashley on her 18 month birthday.

What else has happened this month? Ashley continues to learn a handful of words a day. When she gets fussy, I try to distract her by asking her if she can say, red, purple, daddy, school, Molly, Elsa, Grandpa, Grandma etc. We play this game till Momma can't think of another word to test her on. On our refrigerator we have a picture of Ashley with her Mommy, Grandpa and cousin Jessica. I point to the people in the picture and say their names and Ashley will repeat their names. She thinks this is really fun and made sure to point out that I forgot to mention the most important thing in the picture...her beloved KEE (her blankey)! It made me laugh so hard. Tonight while she paged through one of her books, she pointed to the bunnies on the page and said, "bunny". I didn't prompt her or anything. Bunny isn't even one of the animals that we regularly practice. So COOL! Her favorite indoor activity is to run and fall into a pile of blankets. She rolls around and just loves all blankets. She's picked up a few new dance moves...in addition to the Frankenstein dance, she now spins around slowly and she has started to try to jump. It's adorable.