Today Kylie said her ABCs, well sort of. She gets the tune down but instead of saying “A, B, C, D, etc.” she sings “A, B, B, B, etc.”, but she does manage to get the tune right and it is really cute to hear her do it.

In addition to this she has been slowly perfecting her counting as well. Her Grammie has a grandfather clock that chimes every hour and then chimes the number of hours. At every hour that Kylie is awake whoever is with her counts the hour off on their fingers, and Kylie has been counting with them. She can count to three along with the chimes, but after that she tends to lose it. She also tries to hold up her fingers with the counting and watching her do this is very cute.

Kylie had her eighteen month checkup today, and we are happy to announce that she is doing excellent! The doctor said that he is very pleased with her speech and cognitive development. He actually said that she was “perfect” and that he can not say that about many children. Her weight is now 24 lbs and 13 ounces, and she is 32 and 3/4 inches tall (2 feet 8 and 3/4 inches). Below are some charts of her growth up to this point:

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That’s what Tiffany woke up to this morning. For the first time instead of getting fussy and crying when she woke up, Kylie simply stood up in her crib and called out “Mom!” Tiffany said that at first she thought that she must be hearing things, and then a few seconds later she heard it again, “Mom!” Kylie was awake and calling for her, and even though it was a little early and Tiffany would have loved a few more minutes sleep, she was very happy that Kylie called for her.

Kylie made a very special phone call today, to her Daddy. Seeing as I am over 600 miles away from her, Kylie and I talk on the phone almost everyday. Either I call her or Tiffany calls me and hands Kylie the phone, at which point Kylie walks around the house holding the phone and talking with me. Well today she called me…all by herself. Tiffany had left her phone out and gone into another room to put some things away and when she returned a few minutes later Kylie was talking to me on the phone. Kylie had figured out how to call me all on her own! Tiffany said that she heard Kylie talking in the other room and didn’t think anything of it, until she came into the room and saw her holding the phone, and then heard my voice. Not only had she managed to call me on her own, but she also managed to put the phone on speaker! She is obviously going to become one of those girls who is always on the phone. But thats ok, she can talk with her Daddy whenever she wants. 🙂

We found out today that should she be so inclined, Kylie can climb out of her playpen. Today while she was at Erica’s house she climbed out of her playpen after her nap, thankfully the room in which she was napping had the door closed so she could not get out of the room. Erica said that she was just getting ready to go out to her car to get something when she heard Kylie starting to make noise upstairs. Seeing as Kylie was just waking up and Taylor was still asleep in her room, Erica ran out to her car to get her items. When she came back in she heard Kylie knocking on something, and when she went upstairs to get her, she found out that Kylie was knocking on the bedroom door. Erica said that when she opened the door Kylie was standing there with a big grin on her face, all proud of her accomplishment.

As I predicted, shortly after I leave to go back to Minnesota Kylie says the words I have been waiting a long time to hear: “Love You.” The first time she said it she was walking from Aunt Sissy to Mommy while looking directly at Mommy and said “Love You.” Tiffany quickly grabbed her phone and called me and got Kylie to say it again. So the first time I heard Kylie say the words I have been waiting to hear was over the phone over 600 miles away. But I heard her say it and that’s what I have been waiting for. It makes me miss her all the more and I can’t wait to get back home to see her and hold her again!

Being out in Minnesota and finances in general, is going to make holiday shopping difficult. I have already decided that I am only going to be able to shop for only a few people, and I hope everyone will be able to understand that. That being said I did do some shopping today, mainly just for Kylie, out at the outlet mall in Howell with Tiffany today. We only got Kylie some clothes, mainly because that is what she needs, but also because we were rather disappointed in the selection at the toy store. I was happy that we were able to do the shopping rather quickly. This is mainly due to us dropping Kylie off at Tiffany’s father’s house while we went shopping. After we finished up with our little bit of shopping we went to Tiffany’s Dad’s house for dinner. It was nice to see everyone over there again too, as I was unable to see all of them the last time I was home.