Samantha growing so fast

Samantha is now 21 months, and growing so fast. She can climb herself up onto the furniture now, tells us what she wants with some clarity, counts, plays, and has a blast each day. She seems to be into pretend play with her dolly. She puts dolly to sleep and talks to her. I had no idea it started this early, but it's very cute.

Lately she has also been wanting to play by herself and tells Josh and I to go, waving and pointing until we walk away. She sits in her room and plays with all her toys. It's quite cute when we can sneak a peak.

Her communication has gotten much better. She can now also count, probably by memory, but it still surprises us. For the longest time she would only say 1, 2, 1, 2, 1 over and over again. Then she busted out the 3. Then one day randomly at dinner she got all the way to 9, and then said 11. Now when she does it she always goes to 9, and then skips around after that, but never saying 10 until this morning when she counted to 12 without skipping any numbers. We'll see when that happens again.

She also tells us when it's time for night night, and if she poops, which is helpful that she can now recognize it, even if we're still a bit off from potty training.

She is still into Elmo, Cookie Monster, Abby, and all other Sesame Street characters. She also has found a big interest in trains, and loves the sound, a huge plus to living where we do now. She loves her stuffed animals, and reading books as always.