Favorites at 19 months

Maia is now over a year and a half. She does have her favorites still. Some of those things include Elmo, Monsters Inc., hats, sunglasses, pulling her hair ties out of her hair, pulling off her diaper, putting food on her tray and smashing the food with her fingers or creating a painting with the liquid-like foods, unloading the dishwasher, cell phones, and purses.

Here are some of her other favorites.

Her dad is definitely a favorite. She loves to be with her daddy. She loves to play games with him like 'Duck, Duck, Goose' which usually starts with Maia running around Joe who is sitting on the floor. Joe has to say, "duck, duck," before Maia yells, "GOOSE!" It is common that "goose" is the first word out of Maia's mouth when playing the game. She also likes to tackle daddy when Joe pretends to be a monster. (Remember, she likes monsters.)

She loves to draw, color, write, etc. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it marks the surface. Maybe she'll end up to be a designer like her dad.

Maia loves the park. I am grateful that we are currently living in such a warm and beautiful city. We find ourselves at the park to play on the slide, swings, and in the sand.

Maia loves her blanket!! She makes sure that her blanket is always close to her head. She loves it draped over the back of her high chair while she eats so that she can nuzzle her head into it. She is often found wearing her blanket like a shepherd or a nun (as shown above). She loves to take it anywhere if she can get away with it. (see below)

Maia loves her dad and also loves her dad's shoes or any shoes for that matter. She often brings us our shoes like a good little puppy. Yes, she does have big feet. She is 19 months and wears size 7. Hopefully she doesn't literally fill up her dad's shoes one day.

"Cado," as Maia calls it. Maia is my avocado and fruit baby. She loves almost any fruit you feed her. She loves avocado for breakfast along with a "ha-ha-ha" (naranja, aka orange) or any berries. She will take fruit over any other food you put in front of her.

Sand. We already mentioned the park and the sand. She likes to fill up her pale with her shovel, dump it out, and start again.

Bathtime! Maia still loves the bath (even better when I let her have her blanket in the bath with her ONCE). She would not let go of that blanket and I finally let her have it just to show her what happens when you put a blanket in the bath. She didn't care that it was super heavy and wet. She thought it was fantastic!