She'll be 18 months old this week on the 13th.

Olivia is doing new things everyday. Tonight she identified so many animals in her animal book it was just a proud moment. Seems she took to answering our question of "where is the such and such" overnight! She pointed out the sea horses, lady bugs, deer, doggie, roosters, ducklings and butterflys on a very busy page. It was pretty cool. We were tempted to continue in grilling her since we were all having fun, but it was winding her up instead of down, and it was supposed to be reading books before bedtime.

About 2 weeks ago I mentioned to her Kindermusik teacher that she has at least 100 words, and then later I thought to myself that I might have been exagerating and bragging about my incredibly wonderful daughter. So Steve and I decided we would jot down all her words and count. We stopped counting at 95 since it was a done deal, she used more than 100 words. Granted some are only understandable by us her parents. Like dappa dee. That is diaper. She wants to be nek nek all the time and that includes taking off the dappa dee.

Her words are getting more grown up as each day comes. She now says "all done" with the n in the done word. It used to be just "aw duh" used with the sign for all done. And today she started telling Tee Tee one of our cats, to "get down" and not just "down". With the emphasis on the get just like her mommy says it!
She also enjoys practicing her gymnastics from her gymnastics class with both me and her daddy at home. Today we practiced the straddle stretch position, the pike stretch positon, the tuck sitting position, the star standing position and saying "taa daaAaaaaaaa!" with arms straight up in the air. It is so cute to see her practice kissing her knees in straddle position and then she says "tee doo" for the teacher in her class.
And another first from today, she did the sign for play and kept saying playground which sounded like paypo or paydoh or peepo and she asks to go swinging in combination with the play/playground sign and word. And her word for swinging is funny too, she doesn't say the s with it, so it sounds like winging. She got upset! I told her we couldn't go to the playground b/c it was raining! But then she was ok when we did the raining song. I sing "it's raining it's pouring, daddy has been snoring. He went to bed and bumped his head and couldn't get up in the morning." We have another raining song too but I will save that for later.

We'll go to the playground tomorrow for some swinging and maybe I will take some pictures or video of my amazing child. Maybe.