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Yesterday was Elizabeth’s 18 month check-up. She is 35 inches tall
and 23.8 pounds. That makes her a full 3 inches taller than an
average 18-month-old according to the charts. Crazy! She’s still
slightly below average in weight though, so you can imagine how tall
and skinny she is.

Last weekend at a baby shower for Frank’s cousin, Elizabeth was
fascinated with baby Wyatt. She kept trying to pick him up and carry
him around, but 6 month old Wyatt must be in the upper percentiles
for weight (that’s the polite way of saying he’s quite chubby),
because I’m sure he weighed more than Elizabeth. She settled on
hugging him for about 5 minutes while he clung to her hair. Later she
found one of his toys and started searching all over the house for
him saying “baby?”

She’s talking up a storm. Have I said that before? It’s just so
amazing to hear her thought process. The other night Frank took a
picture of her and she pointed at the camera saying “mi-wuh,” or
mirror, because she wanted to see the screen on the back of the
digital camera. She’s also started telling me when she has a stinky
diaper. She’ll point at her diaper and say “kinky.” Some other words
she says are “ni-no” – cappuccino, “cheers,” and one of her favorites
“na-na!” – nurse!

She’s also exhibited an interest in sitting on the potty. It’s way
too early to start any sort of potty training, or to be PC, Potty
Learning. She can’t even take her pants off by herself yet. (Imagine
shopping when she figures that out.) But, I did get her a little
potty of her own so when she demands to sit on the toilet like me she
won’t fall in. She hauled it out to the kitchen around lunch time
today, pointed at it and said “more!” It took me a second to realize
she wanted to use it as a bowl. We definitely have a long way to go
with the potty concept.