18 Months

At 18 months, Eleanor is adventurous and sweet. She repeats everything you say now and comes up with the funniest "sentences." Like yesterday: "Uh oh. Happened? Down!" as a way of saying, "Uh oh, what happened? They all fell down!" Every time she identifies something, she says hi and asks how it is doing (or what it is doing, it is unclear). Example: "Airplane! Hi! Doing?" She asks after her all of her extended family members regularly. "Tim? Doing? Bye Bye?" (And no, she hasn't seen Uncle Tim in over a month).

She weighs 30 pounds and is about 33 1/2 inches - still in the 95th percentile for weight and height. She wakes up at 6am and goes to be between 7pm and 7:30 and usually naps from noon - 2pm. She loves cheese and crackers and doing wooden puzzles and reading.

She is a wonderful little person, and these days particularly, I don't know what I would do without her.