18 Months and Counting!

My sweet Mollypop is 18 months old today!!!  I can't believe it!  And she is incredible.  Period.  I mean it...I am so in love with this kid!  Every day she does something new and mind-blowing...she's hard to keep up with!  She now refers to us, her parents, as "Ryan" and "Ashleigh"--not exclusively, more occasionally, when she finds it necessary.  She's speaking in sentences now, choppy ones.  A favorite is "read books please" and once you assume the book reading position she proceeds to request her favorite titles. I love to catch her reading a book on her own.  She has a dialogue with herself just like when we read to her.  Today she was reading a book of colors with a different animal for each color.  On every page she would say, "Orange! What is that? Tiger!  What it say?  Rarrrrr!  Yellow!  What is that? Bird!  What it say?  Tweet, tweet, tweet..."  She got to purple "What is that? Bu-fly! What it say?  Pretty!"  Sigh.  She's a sponge.  And I like to squeeze her.

It's getting late...onto the pictures:

Here she is, delighted, with a super nifty Sesame Street alphabet book set hand-me-down from her fabulous second cousins twice removed? I dunno. family:)  This girl is CRAZY about letters!  She must say the alphabet 26 times a day...at least...and she can recognize all the uppercase letters.

 And here's Ryan trying to get a headband on that toothy grinned girl:)

 This is back on Valentine's day...

 And I'll leave you with a cell phone pic from today's choreography rehearsal.  She wore her Millie shirt from last year for the occasion...soon to be replaced with an Oklahoma shirt!  She loved being Laura's dance partner!

Three quarters of the way to TWO!  Wow!  Thank you, God, for Molly:)