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Merry Christmas Baby Girl!

Khloe, I've been neglecting your monthly updates on the blog, for which I feel badly about, so here's a little update on your busy life as an... 18? 19? month old. Wait. I had to count on my fingers to confirm. You're 19 months old.

Your vocabulary includes the word "iPad". And not just iPad, but pronounced "iPaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!" You know how to unlock the screen, you scroll to your two Khloe folders and find the apps you want to play. Your favorites are Peek-A-Boo Barn, Animal Memory Game, and The Wheels on the Bus. Your vocabulary also includes "Cheechee", or Cherry our Elf. You talk about Cheechee first thing when you wake up asking to go downstairs so you can find her. When anyone comes in our house, you run over and point to where ever Cherry is making sure our guests know.

You love to play games. It's actually quite hilarious, really, how much you play them. Sometimes all the games in the house are out and open at once. (Not hilarious). Your favorites are Hi Ho Cherry-O, Operation, Rack-O, Hungry Hungry Hippo, and Connect4. The other day you were playing Sequence with Ms Melissa, Addie and Kayla and you actually won the first game!!! You really did! How funny is that? You love to get out the Twister game, mostly to practice handstands on. I think its because at gymnastics there is a carpet square with two circles on it that you place your hands on to practice handstands. Thanks to Twister you also learned your colors very early on. The first color you learned - and your favorite color - is green. In this house? Imagine that.

Crackers, pillows and movie night

You're in gymnastics, it's your second class. The Half Pints class is for 18 mo-3 year olds, so I think technically when you started in Sept you might have only been 17 mo or so, but you have kept right up with the other big kids. You do everything Coach Mel says and every thing the other kids do too. When I ask you on Tuesday mornings if you're excited for gymnastics you purse your lips into a slight smile, nod your head yes, and say "Mel!" Climbing, bouncing and jumping are your things. You randomly bust out into handstands all day long.

You like building blocks, but more so Kayla's teeny tiny itsy bitsy legos. And you're not as much into construction as you are destruction.

Fun fort building with Kristi

Our motto for you is "Khloe is moving us in the opposite direction". Meaning, we clean. You tear apart. We put away. You get back out. We pick up. You dump out. It's a never ending cycle.

Your motto for yourself is "Baths solve all the world's problems". You will drop what you're doing, grin ear to ear, yell "bathbathbath!" and bolt upstairs if you even hear the word "bath" whispered.

Elmo is your favorite character.

As clear as day you can pronounce fairly complicated words: Grandpa and Grandma and Excuse Me. You have long been able to say "excuse me" even before you could say most single words. You learned to say excuse me mostly to push past Kayla in order to get something you needed/wanted. Then you learned to say it after burps, which is just too cute. So every time you burp, we hear "Kee me". Thank you for being polite.

It's a breeze to put you to bed, and really, it's sooo easy that I almost feel guilty about it. Your bedtime routine is a responsibility your Dad and I negotiate every night because we both love to be the one to rock you!! You choose three books (which most times includes at least the balloon book and your rabbit book) which we read, we rock for a minute or two, you tell us "nigh-nigh", and we lay you down in your crib. Often we rock for longer... just because cuddling you is too sweet and fun and represents a moment in time that will pass all too quickly. You never make even the slightest peep all night long and a normal night includes 13 hours of sleep - 6:45pm to 7:45am. On the weekends, when it's quiet in the mornings, you'll sleep until 8:30am or later!

You recently learned how to sing songs, songs that only you know the words to, but they are still very sweet songs. Sometimes you sing yourself awake in the morning, to fall asleep at night, and sometimes in the car, grocery cart, on top of the coffee table, or anywhere else you feel like it.

Being entertained by Daddy

Outside of your Dad and I, I think your favorite person is Addie. You can't see her without yelling and pointing "Add-da!" You always have a hug for her. Sometimes you are a bit clingy to me, but generally you are not shy and do not have separation anxiety... unless we're dropping you off in the church nursery on Sunday mornings. But, you're getting better.

It makes you very happy to visit Dr. Bob, or "Bopbop". You've had several visits there the last month to help with your teething issues. He can lift you right out of my arms, walk around with you and you never complain (while my mouth is hanging wide open). You know at the end of the appointment you get a sucker, so you wait patiently next to Melissa's desk waiting to pick one out.

So much drama sometimes!

Wake up. Eat. Play. Tornado. Eat. Nap. Wake up. Eat. Play. Tornado. Eat. Play. Sleep. That pretty much sums up your life little Khloe Jean! We love you! We are having fun experiencing this Christmas season with you!