18 months old today!

At 1.01am today, Gaby was officially 18 months old! WHERE the hell has time gone? She has changed so much in 18 months, it really is amazing - and I wish there was some way to record every single second of it - so that I could play back those early days and remember how tiny she was, the cute little things she did back then, and watch her development - from that tiny baby I brought home from the hospital, who pretty much only ate, fed & pooed - to this gorgeous 18 month old who can tell me what noise a motorbike makes, tell me what sound a cow makes, put her socks on......

She does seem to be getting cheekier & cheekier with each day that passes - as I type this she is tipping water from her sippy cup, onto the floor. It's only water. It won't stain. She certainly knows when she's doing something she shouldn't be - she'll look at me (or anyone!) and wave her finger at them while saying "no", it's too damn cute & it makes it so hard to actually stop and get her to stop what she's doing. She's copying ALL of our language - mostly good words, but some bad words! At Mum & Dad's on Thursday, we were leaving the house, when she quite simply puts her hand up to her mouth & says "Oh shit!". WHAATTTTTT? So now we are making a huge effort to keep our language 'clean' around her - although we were trying to do that anyway, obviously not hard enough though.

Gaby got to see her Aunty Terri over the last couple of days, which I think they both enjoyed a lot! Terri & her friend were going up to Auckland for a concert, and they were flying out of Christchurch - so we were lucky enough to have a few hours with Ter! Terri got lots of cuddles and cute behaviour - I think Gaby enjoyed having someone new to show off to! On the way back from the airport last night, Gaby seeemed to have Terri & her friend very impressed with her language skills - repeating lots of words they said. It was Terri who taught her how to say "brmm brmm".