One and a half!

Lily is 18 months old! Nursery time! (We'll see if that happens)  I feel like she is full blown toddler now.

Well Check Up Stats:
Weight: 22 lbs. 1 oz 38%
Height: 32 " 48%
Head Circ: 45 3/4 cm. 31 %

Talking: She is constantly jabbering away! Usually nobody knows what she is saying but it sure is adorable. She can say a few words we understand and she uses a ton of sign language still too which makes communicating with her a lot more helpful. My favorite is when she puts her little hands in the air and says "Where did _____ go?". Some new words are: Owl, Gaffe (Giraffe), Tweet Tweet, Sleep, "That's Mom" "That's Dad", Bruce (Michael's parent's new kitty's name). She also says "ow" when she is hurt. She gave us a false alarm one day because she kept holding her ear and saying "ow" so we took her to the doctor. No ear infection! Sigh!

Eating: She is a really good eater now. I haven't stressed about it for a long time. She feeds herself everything and is getting pretty dexterous with a spoon and a fork. She looks healthy and is gaining weight well.

Teething: This girl is going to be 20 years old before she has all her adult teeth because she is soooooo slow at getting her baby ones! It seems like she has been working on her top teeth for half her life! They look like they are really close. One of them has even started to cut through a bit.

Sleeping: She is a great sleeper! Sleeps 12-13 hours a night and a 3-4 hour nap in the day! We are pretty lucky that way. She does like to have the perfect environment though: room darkened, lots of white noise, in her sleep sac with her dog and a bottle.

Discipline: Over the last few months Lily has gotten more moody. Lately she has been whining a lot and throwing tantrums and hitting! Where did our sweet little happy girl go? So we read this book called 1,2,3 Magic where you count to get them to stop obnoxious behaviour and put them in time out. No getting upset or trying to lecture her! Then you make sure you do lots of praise and positive reinforcement when she is doing things you want her to do. I hope it helps!

Sick: Lily had 2 ear infections and a cold and croup twice the last few weeks! Poor girl! Hopefully she can be healthy the rest of the summer.We went to the doctor 5 times this month!

Favorites: Lily loves her stuffed dog, Grandma Malouf's kitty, swings, slides, swimming. one-on-one time with Mommy or Daddy, otter pops, her cousins, her granparents and aunts and uncles, climbing on things, Sesame Street, Curious George, and Bubble Guppies.

Funny: Lily has a great little sense of humor and the cutest laugh. One of her funniest latest "tricks" is to flex her muscles. She does it with so much intensity I'm worried she will give herself a hernia! Michael's favorite thing she does is go "wub,wub,wub,wub,wub"in kind of a deep but fast voice. You do it to her and she will do it back. Its a cute little game they play :)

Swimming Lessons: Last month we got to do parent and tot swimming lessons at the Scera Pool for 2 weeks with my friends Amber and her kids, her mom, her sister Jess and her kids, and my long time friend Shani and her little girl that is only 2 weeks older than Lily. It was so fun to have something to do each morning and get in the water. Lily loved the songs and would try to sing along. Her favorites were the ones where we did lots of jumping and throwing her in the air like Ring around the Rosies and Zoom Zoom Zoom. Unfortunately our teacher wasn't that great. Amber pretty much taught the class every day. But we still had a great time!

Shani and I with our little girls at swimming lessons!

While Michael was in Montreal Lily and I still did some fun things. We went to the Lehi Parade to watch Ryker on his float and then to the Lehi Round Up with my family. The parade was way too hot! But Lily enjoyed the rodeo. She kept going "moo" and "neigh" and doing the sign for horse and clapping. She would get a little nervous when everyone was yelling and when they were wrestling the cows but she would just snuggle against my shoulder. Thanks Mike and Nicole for the ticket!

Lily with Grandma and Grandpa Stoker at the Lehi Round-Up Rodeo!

The Stoker Fam at Lehi Round Up!

We also got to visit my long time friend Caryn at her sweet apartment in downtown Salt Lake and  swim in her pool! Amber also came over one night and we had a late night watching a chick flick. We had to be home a lot during the day because our house got flooded and Servpro guys kept coming to rip stuff out or check on the drying process and make estimates. But we still had fun even though we both missed Michael.

This is how Lily watches T.V. when she is sick.

Michael, Sean and Craig at Primary Children's with Blake

Lily got another cousin this month on the Malouf side! Blake was born to Sean and Brittany about a month before his due date! He has had some breathing issues so he is Primary Children's getting excellent care. Hopefully he can go home soon! He is such a cutie. We love him so much!

Fireworks!
Lily had a lot fun watching fireworks last month. We saw the big ones that Cedar Hills did and some close ones on the 24th at my brother's house. She loved them. She only sits still for fireworks :)

Amber and Me. BFF's! Poor Amber had to get back surgery last month! She had a girl's night with me while Michael was in Canada. Love her!