Anna at 19 Months

This girl is a lot of fun!
-Saying 2 and 3 word sentences.  My favorite is "hop peese" (help please).  Her most common 3 word sentence is "more noo-nos peese" (more noodles please).
-Anna has also discovered that shaking her head passionately "yes", after making a request, for example"noo-nos peese", helps her get what she wants.
-Anna is saying hi and bye to inanimate objects... "Hi cup;  bye cracker;  hi door, etc...
-Her love of watching Elmo was just surpassed by her new favorite-- she now is asking to "watch Anna", after Ryan introduced her to watching home videos of herself.
-She can repeat and say more words on command.
-When you ask her what her middle name is, she says "Grace".
-She can point to on command and say several more capital letters... A, B, C, E, I, K, M, O, P, S, U, Y
-She can sight read the word "horse".
-She likes to dance to music, and gets into it more all the time.
-Anna has started doing something funny-- she will gently pick at the top of somebody's head, and then pretend to eat whatever it was she picked out... this is really hilarious to me, and I figure that she must have seen monkeys doing that, in one of the wildlife animal shows Ryan and her recently watched.

Pretending to pick something from Matthew's hair, right before she pretended to eat whatever she just picked.

I let Anna play in the snow for the first time.  She liked it for about 3 minutes, until she got snow on her face.  Then she was done with it.

Celebrating Uncle John's birthday

Valentine's Day photos

It's challenging to get a 19-month old to sit down or stand still for pictures.

Elmo CD player-- currently one of Anna's favorite toys.