18 months!

Ava turns 18 months this week! Here's the highlights for this stage...

• She continues to add words each week, some recently are "church" and she tells Rory to "hush", she calls me mostly "mom" now, sometimes still "mamma". So cute when I'm in the other room, she'll call out "mom, mom, mom" as comes and finds me. 
• rocking and shhhhing her babies to sleep is still her favorite pass time, She likes to use Rory's dog bed for her baby bed.
• She might just turn into a banana, she eats 2-3 whole bananas a day. She's showed an interest in strawberries and grilled sweet potatoes are her other current fav. She also loves to put cherrios or teddy grahams in her yogurt when she eats it these days. (see picture at the bottom of this post).
• She now wakes up from naps usually saying "up" instead of crying to let us know she's awake. 
• We shared a first together, we fed giraffe's at our zoo last week. (see top pic).
• She can tell you a wide array of animal noises, although the lion is her favorite, her little growl is pretty cute. 
• She had her first ear infection this month which got her first antibiotic, I paid extra to flavor it strawberry at the drug store, she seemed to like it pretty well, she would often sign more after she got some. 
• Her hair is getting long, trying to hold off cutting it and hoping her bangs will catch up. 
• I catch glimpses of a little girl at times when she's playing on her knees with pig tails in her hair. (see middle pic).