22 months

If we could slow things down just a little bit, mommy would be so happy! 

We were lucky to go to the Cleveland Zoo with Gigi for the day and we ran into this monkey!  You absolutely loved the lions, elephants, monkeys, giraffes, rhinos (we even got to see Juba the new baby rhino at the zoo!), and the flamingos!  We were lucky that the flamingos were just being let out of their inside enclosure so they were very active for us!  You loved that!

Papa even met us for lunch at the zoo which was a great treat!

The weekend of mommy's birthday we went to Patterson Fruit farm to see the pumpkins with Papa and Gigi, unfortunately Daddy was out of town for work, I think in Tenneesee.

You love seeing and touching all of the pumpkins!

Trying to "borrow" a pumpkin to take home!

Walking with Papa

Mommy still can't believe that we got you in jeans, you hate wearing anything jean right now!  I think it doesn't give you enough room to move and play!

Swings!

Your favorite books this month are: Cinderella, Stuart at the Library, Alice in Wonderland, Toddlerobics, Little Rabbit's Baby Sister, Under the Sea,
You love blankets all of the sudden!  Anything can be a blanket -- towels, washcloths, changing pads, baby blankets, afghans, kitchen towels, pretty much any fabric you can find!  And you have started to wrap up your baby dolls in the blankets and rock them and sometimes you sing Mary Had a Little Lamb to them!
You can now count to 14 without much difficulty.  You know A(apple), B(baby), C(cookie), D(daddy), G(Gigi), M(mommy), N(Natalie), O(octopus), P(Papa), and S(snake).  You have learned all of your colors and name them all day long when you see things!  Mommy is so proud that you know so many shapes already: triangle, square, circle, rectangle, octagon, star, dice (cube), and sometimes pentagon!  You love to play look for the red octagon when we are in the car!  You also know that red means stop and green means go.