Ella at 18 Months

 Weighs 20 lbs 4 ozs (5th percentile) and is 31 1/2 inches in length (50th percentile)-
 according to her pediatrician, she's a "peanut"

Likes to color (aka scribble) and LOVES to use markers when doing so

Naps and sleeps well (most nights:)

Is an "ok" eater

Will eat most fruits, except grapes (what kid doesn't like grapes?!)

Despises most vegetables unless they are well hidden

If she's determined the food you've given her is not worth eating, or even trying for that matter, it is impossible to make her eat it.

Gives a definite "yuck" face when she doesn't like something.

LOVES to dip, or more like soak, everything in her milk.  If you take the lid off her cup, she gets the biggest grin on her face because she knows she's about to have some fun;)

Can get very messy at dinner time!

Still developing her vocabulary, but definitely gets her point across in other ways.  

Stomps her foot when she wants you to come or follow her and if you don't, she'll come and grab your hand so you will come.

If she wants you to sit somewhere, she lets you know by pointing her finger on the exact location she wants you to sit.

Can very effectively shake her head "yes" and "no"

Says, uh-oh, ma-ma, da-ddy (although she often calls both dad and mom, ma-ma), Please ("eas!"), thank you ("ank" "ooo"), and has started calling Gianna "Na-na"

Loves to be held by mom but is also very independent

Will often go and get a stool if she needs to get something she can't reach or see what she wants to see

Can cry like the world is ending when you tell her no

Loves to do everything her big sister is doing but doesn't always want big sister to do what she's doing (big sisters have a tendency to take over;)

Has a BIG and BEAUTIFUL smile!