Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Happy 18 months!

Yesterday Noelle turned 18 months. I seriously can't believe it. She has quite the personality and is so helpful and so smart. I remember thinking when my sister Alyson gets home from her mission Noelle will be 18 months. I thought that was such a long ways off. Now Aly's coming home and the time really has flown by. We ask Noelle "Where's Alyson?" And she points to her picture on my parents wall. She's picking up on everything. Here are some of the latest milestones:

  • She often says something to the effect of "What's dis?" or "Oh geez."
  • She brings us anything we ask her to and is so helpful.
  • Her vocabulary is growing more every day. Some of our favorites lately are "ha"=hot. "sh"=shoe. "bebe"=baby. "be"=button/belly button.
  • We love asking her where her hands, feet and teeth are. It's so cute when she shows you them.
  • Noelle loves making animal sounds. Her favorites lately are making kitty, duck and doggy noises.
  • She repeats a lot of what we are saying or the first part of it anyway.
  • She loves Elmo and Sesame Street more than ever and loves dancing to the music.
  • She loves her little pink blanket and still loves giving hugs to her stuffed animals and saying "ohhh" when she does.
  • She folds her arms during the prayer, this doesn't last very long though.
  • She still loves books.
  • She takes naps and goes to bed very willingly, walking into her own room and hardly ever crying. (we love this)
I can't believe how big she is getting and how much she is learning. We went to her doctor's appointment today and she is 23.2lbs (40%) and 32 inches (75%) and we found out that she has Bronchiolitis. Apparently there is no medicine for this really either and it lasts about 2 weeks. She's a very happy girl though and if it wasn't for her cough and runny nose you wouldn't know she was sick. We love her so much and are so happy to be her parents!

She loved having her own purse and sunglasses

Very serious and "I'm cool" picture

1 comment:

Cassie said...

Yay little Noelle is so cute and growing growing growing! Her and Hallie are only a pound and a half apart now. Crazy, she started out so darn tiny! We are going through an Elmo phase too, that's how I got Hallie to wear "panties" since they had Elmo on them, thank heavens they make girl panties with Elmo. I bet you guys are super excited for Allison to get home, I can't believe it has already been 18 months!