Layla Bayla

Layla Bayla is 18 months old now and she's a hoot! The above picture so accurately shows her personality it's unreal.  (We have it on display in our living room.)  About Miss Layla...

She smiles and laughs all the time. 

She is into EVERYTHING! 

She climbs EVERYTHING!

She wants to be apart of everything, and she makes sure she is. 

She talks to everybody she meets. 

She waves and says "hi" and "How do?" to any neighbors going by. (That means "How are you?") 

She understands everything you say. 

She repeats anything you say. We have a lot of fun with this at the dinner table. She's our entertainment. :)

She talks and communicates over and beyond normal for her age. I love it when she comes over to me to ask for help and then leads me to what she needs help with. 

She nods her head with raised eyebrows to communicate "yep, that's right, that's what I want." and has most recently started saying "yeah".

She says "milk" with the most adorable cluck at the end, so it's more like, "mil-cluck" instead of the k. It's hilarious!

She calls Matson "nanny".

She sings "e-i-e-i-o, moo-moo".

She's fascinated with a small "Humpty Dumpty" book we have and loves to hear that rhyme over and over.

She wants you to watch her do stuff. I feel like it's really early for this. She will call to one of us, "watch, watch!" and then do what she wants us to see. I'm always amazed. :)

When she wakes up in the morning she plays in her crib for a good 30 minutes. Gives me time for a cup of coffee before she's unleashed!

When I am chewing gum she will come stick her tounge out at me b/c she wants me to blow a bubble.

Bubbles are the best distraction to get her to stay in the church nursery.

She's learning spanish in the nursery and says adios, bravo, ahola, and a couple more I don't know. She understands the spanish and will show her caregivers what they are saying.

She and Matson will play outside in the backyard together for 30 minutes without needing help. They can get into some mischief together. Today I went out there and the two of them were soaking wet from head to toe from playing in the water faucet.

One of her not so good traits...She's really rough with other kids. She goes up to others and grabs them. We first started telling her "gentle, soft" but she would just go in for the grab so now we tell her "no touch!" She loves other people so much, but is learning to be nice to them so they like her back. :)

She's not too big on the pool. She likes it okay, but is totally content out of it.

Let's see, what else...She's so sweet and fun and loveable and squishy! :) Everyone, especially my mom friends who don't have small children anymore, want to squeeze her chubby legs. I love to do it too and I probably do at least 15 times a day!

We love you, Layla Bayla!!