Selah at 19 months

I meant to do a post about her turning a year and a half - but we did a quick less than 24 hour trip to Santa Barbara for our friends' annual New Years party and then Finn had a birthday...yada yada yada. You get the idea. So here she is, at 19 months now, our precious little handful.



This is Selah exactly one year ago


And here she is now. In the past year, she has completely transformed from "baby" to "little girl".


*Selah likes to color, on everything.


*She's into shoes big time. Taking them off, putting them on, wearing everyone else's.


*She's a talker. She is exploding with language right now. Though, she sometimes seems a little dyslexic. When she talks fast she has been known to call herself Lisa instead of Selah and calls a kiwi a "weeky". She's so cute. Finn is "Thin", Grandma Summy is simply "Summy". She can name nearly all the animals in a book we have, though if you didn't know her, you might not understand her.


*She loves books. Currently she is glued to "Polar Bear Polar Bear What do you Hear?" She can recite some of it on her own now - real words mixed with mumbles. Finn was particularly drawn to that book too when he was this age.

*She sleeps ALL the way through the night now.... and so do I, ever since I weaned her a month ago. Yay!

*She has always had a strong personality, and now that she's talking, she'll let us know EXACTLY what she wants and when she wants it. The other morning, I brought her to bed with me in the morning, hoping she'd sleep in with me for another 1/2 hour. She laid on my pillow for about 5 seconds and then sprang up and said in a booming voice, "Mama! Get up! Oatmeal! Oatmeal!"


*She LOVES Dora the Explorer and all the characters in the show, Backpack, Map, Boots, and Swiper. We don't have cable but we do have a few VHS videos, so the kids have seen the same Dora episode a million times now. They don't seem to mind.

*She likes baby dolls, pretend cooking, pushing a chair over to the sink so she can help, pulling all the books off the bookshelves, singing and teasing her brother by getting dangerously close to his train set.

Selah is feisty and fun, smart and silly, cute and cuddly and all together tough as nails. I'm excited to see what she'll do next. We love our Selahbob.