18 Months!

I have some catching up to do...I have several new posts that I just breezed over because there is too much to catch up on.

This past Saturday Justee turned 18 months old. Yippee, hooray! I love 18 months because it means nursery time at church! Justee loves nursery and has actually gone for the past 3 Sundays. She has wanted to go for a long time and always tried sneaking in with Charlee. Justee and I are both very happy with this new routine on Sundays.

Justee is a very energetic girl. She is either really happy and smiling and laughing or she is screaming and throwing a fit. She seems to have 2 personalities at times. She can throw a fit with the best of them and thinks she should get her way all the time. She gives great hugs and isn't very shy about who she warms up too. She loves animals and gets very excited every time she sees one. She likes to make people laugh and will repeat her actions if it got even the slightest chuckle from anyone. She is such a ham. She talks really well for her age, at least compared to my other two. I recently posted about all the things she says. The list has probably tripled. Her big sayings are "what?" (every time she hears her name she says "What?") and "K" (If you tell her to do something she says "K") and "Tank ew mommy." She loves to sing and tries to sing along with all kinds of songs. She also loves to dance. She copies she sisters and loves to play with them. They are really good about helping her and letting her play too, but sometimes Justee likes to take over and keep toys for herself. Everything is "mine!" and Justee freely uses that word too. She is quite the climber and is pretty strong and tough (strong as in she can pull herself up on things and hold onto things really tight, tough as in she takes some hard knocks and spills and doesn't make a fuss.) She's pretty resilient.

When Justee was born we thought she was going to be our "reddest" redhead yet, but her hair has become more blond than red...I guess we will have to see what happens to it in the future. I think it will darken up.

I took pictures of all of my girls on the day of their birth every month until they were a year old. I thought it would be fun to put Justee's up as a recap.

Justee 1 day old...................................... 1st day home

1 month old............................................ 2 months old

3 months.............................. 4 months

5 months............................................ 6 months

7 months..................................8 months

9 months..............................10 months

11 months..............................................12 months

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