18 months old

Hi,

Did you know that today Tahlia is 18 months old? And what a big day it was.

To start off, she allowed Mommy and Daddy to sleep in until almost 7:15 this morning. Daddy gave her a quick change and then, she did a little snuggling in bed with Mommy and Daddy before starting the day.

After breakfast, Tahlia started telling us that she needed to go pee pee, so we took off her diaper and let her know if she needed to go, she should sit on the potty. After a little while, she sat on the potty, and, while reading a One Step Ahead catalog for a little while, she peed in the potty! We were soooooo excited! Then, after dinner, she was sitting on the potty again, after telling us that she needed to go "poo poo," and we heard a little grunt and wouldn't you know it, she poo pooed in the potty! She was so happy. Mommy danced around with her singing the "Tahlia pooped in the potty song," and Tahlia laughed and bounced.

Although it isn't about her being 18 months old, yesterday she did something that was pretty cute. Daddy found a ladybug in the house and showed it to Tahlia prior to letting it go outside. While Daddy was doing the dishes, Mommy was playing with Tahlia. Tahlia went to a little stuffed toy ladybug and pointed to it, then pointed to the door and said Daddy. Mommy told her that Daddy had let the ladybug go outside. Tahlia then picked up the ladybug, walked over to the door, and threw the ladybug at the door. She is a cute little girl.

Another thing Tahlia did happened on Thursday and was super cute, but doesn't really involve anything that Tahlia actually did. As mentioned before, we are working really hard on potty training Tahlia. On Thursday, when Tahlia was wearing a cute little floral dress, Mommy and Daddy needed to run an errand. We prepared everything in her diaper bag, Daddy picked Tahlia up and put her in the car, and off we went. When we were taking Tahlia out of her seat, Daddy noticed that Tahlia's little bum was too soft to have a diaper on. When he checked, not only did he notice that she was not wearing a diaper, but that she had a whole bunch of pea sized red marks on it. We discovered, when checking to see if she had wet her car seat, that she had spilled a whole bunch of freeze dried peas and was sitting on them! Guess Mommy and Daddy need to double check the diaper next time :)

Thanks for everything! Keep the prayers coming.

Love
Muggsie, Lauren and Tahlia