Mika at 20 Months

Weight: 23ish pounds
Height: 31ish inches

New Words: jump, no, gick (cheese stick), bop/dop (stop), pink, blue, cracker, cheese, eye, nose, mouth, ear, head, car, off, nana (banana), water, coat rack, pee pee, stinky, mine, candy cane, juice, yes, hug, Nana (Natalie), apple, shopping cart, nurse (the verb not the noun), grandpa, helicopter, upside-down, duck, fish, purse, the end (when we finish books), strawberry, orange, yellow, sit, ah-nah (I'm done)

Some of my favorite things she says:

No, no, no! (with finger wagging)

Uh-uh! No, mine! (jerking away whatever Jackson is trying to take)

Stinky, stinky (with hand wafting away the smell)
Up high! Down low! (For high-fives)

• She tries to feed her baby dolls real food.
• She can stack up to 8 blocks.
• She discovered how to push chairs up to light switches and turn the lights on and off. Hundreds of times.
• She is turning into a little firecracker. She likes to talk and act just like her big brother. Which is not good for me because he is CRAZY. I think she'd stay pretty mellow if it wasn't for him. She yells at me now. MY ONE-YEAR-OLD YELLS AT ME. Ugh. She yells at me to sit down and to stop walking. It's so funny when she does it though, I can never get my "serious parent face" together and tell her that kids don't yell at adults.
• When I'm using the bathroom, she likes to get a square of toilet paper and pretend to sneeze into it and then wipe herself.