Keila Is 19 Months Old!

To celebrate Keila's 19 month mark today, I bought her a lawn mower. She found a toy one at the home improvement store and went nuts over it. Luckily I had a coupon, as I don't think she was going to take 'no' for an answer. Plus, she was pretty cute running it up and down the aisles while we were shopping (no doubt annoying other customers a bit, I'm sure).
  Here's Keila's progress report for the past month:
 1. Still coming up with new words and sounds all the time. She's starting to talk a bit more in public, but it depends on her mood. She's got too many words to list now, and she's doing a relatively decent job of understanding Japanese too, considering how much Daddy is NOT around due to his insane workload. Keila has also started combining a few words, I think she said 'Car go' the other day or something of that sort. Animal noises are also major fun still--sheep go 'BAAA', cows  go 'MOOO', kitties go 'Mee mee', and the list continues.
 2. Last month's chewing habit must've been a false alarm, as so far no new teeth have made an appearance.
 3. Drumroll, please!!!!! Keila is.....for the most part....sleeping through the night! Every once in a while she'll wake up around 3 or 5, but by far she's started sleeping until about 6 am. I almost prefer the 5 am wake-ups, because she'll go back to bed until around 7 then, but if she sleeps through then she's up for good at 6. Go Keila!
 4. Keila is still running all over and still doesn't mind her leash. She had a GREAT time in Paris over the weekend chasing the pigeons in the park. Paris pigeons are great for the simple fact that they're either too fat, stupid, or used to people to fly away when a toddler gets close. So we had some really great chases, with Keila trotting after fat waddling birds.
 5. Food. Keila will eat or at least try most foods now, although vegetables are still a big favorite. She's really liking fish (especially smoked fish) in the past few weeks, too. And she finally tried some French bread when she saw me feeding it to the birds in Paris. So I think she may be open to eating bread as well as her usual rice now.
 6. New actions. We are REALLY interested in the potty. So much so that we make our dolls and teddy bears go potty on the potty chair, complete with poo poo grunting noises and toilet paper to wipe their bottoms. I'm hoping that potty training for Keila herself will soon follow! Other new actions...Keila loves wrestling with Wasabi, going 'shopping' with her empty shopping bags, and now that she has a lawn mower, mowing the lawn (with lawn mower noises). Busy girl!
 7. Again, I have no idea about Keila's height or weight at the moment. Will try to measure her soon.
 Until next month!
  Posts on Paris should follow shortly...hopefully!