While we were on our trip, Nadia turned 18 months!
Stats:
Height: 31.75 inch 55th percentile
Weight: 23 lbs 30th percentile
Head: 18.5 cm 64th percentile
The good news. She did not scream this time when she was weighed, and only gave the pediatrician a few dirty looks. She is healthy and happy!
When we came home from our trip, Nadia started nursery! She did not want me to leave, but once I did she was fine (other then the nursery workers told me, “she needs a nap”). So far she does better every week!
Nadia’s favorites: She loves electronics and cell phones. No cell phone is safe when she is around, and do not even think about using the computer (especially my netbook) when she is awake. Her new favorite thing is to play in the van. She loves pushing all the buttons and turning on the hazard lights. As far as toys go, she loves anything the other two kids are playing with, babies and strollers, and crayons, markers or pens. She loves books. She will sit in your lap for hours, handing you books over and over again. Her favorite books are anything with animals or babies, ABC books, or books with flaps. Nadia also loves to sing. She likes songs with hand motions like wheels on the bus, popcorn popping, and itsy bitsy spider.
Nadia also loves being outside. If the door opens, she is out in a flash. Her favorite things to do outside are: drive on her car, attempt to ride the kids bikes, play in water, go on slides, dig in the dirt, push the stroller around and run into to street. She also likes to “go,go” as she says. She is always up for an outing, and is pretty well behaved wherever we go. She likes to be in her stroller which is a big help!
Nadia isn’t as picky as she used to be! She now will eat pretty much anything we give her. Her new thing is to have cereal in a b owl with milk. She feels grown up when she does. She loves anything with peanut butter, all fruits, most veggies, breads, mac and cheese, chicken nuggets, soups, chips, cheese, graham crackers, fishy crackers, eggs and her all time favorite: fruit snacks. Nadia has a little dance she does when she is about to get a fruit snack or a treat. As far as treats go, Nadia has a sweet tooth just like Natalya. She loves dum dums! She likes to climb on whatever she can in order to snack a treat. Nadia is also our messiest eater. She always gets something on her clothes, no matter what precautions we take.

Nadia is the earliest talker out of the three. We are amazed by the things she says. She copies a lot, so we will say something like: “Time to go!” and she will say it back! These are the words and phrases she uses most often: Momma, Daddy, all done, treat, fishy, doggy, ducky, kitty, book, look, hot, byebye, yucky, wha wha (which is water, and she says it for anything liquid so anything from milk, to the water in the swimming pool. She also says “treat water” which is chocolate milk or soda), daddy go to work, go, tickle tickle, computer, no, stop, owie, fruit snack, cracker, food, princess, baby,shoes, socks, blankie, night night, banana, apple and her new one, Tanner!

Nadia has a love for animals. She gets so excited and squeals when she sees dogs, cats, or horses. She rode the horses at thanksgiving point a few weeks ago, and was so excited about it. She loves to pet dogs and cats (if they let her). She also loves fish! We will let her watch fish videos on you tube sometimes. She is not a tv watcher, it does not hold her interest. This is unless there is some kind of animal in it.
Nadia also loves music and dancing. Her moves aren’t real great, but she is cute doing it! She loved watching Natalya at her ballet practices.
Nadia is definitely a third child. She loves attention from mom and dad, and if the kids aren’t around us, she will take advantage of it! She also gets very upset if she is left out of something. She knows when the kids get a treat that she doesn’t, or if they get to do something she doesn’t get to. Overall she loves playing with Tanner and Natalya, but she is sure to scream if they do something she doesn’t like. Nadia is very independent, which should be fun when we start potty training. Her personality is a lot like Tanner, she is very adventurous and will climb onto anything, or crawl into anything. This has caused a lot of bumps and bruises for her! She is only weary of people (or people dressed up in costumes). She likes most women, but prefers only dad and grandpas as far as men go. Her sleeping is a lot like Natalya though. She goes to bed well, sleeps about 13 hours at night, and takes a two hour nap everyday! Is Nadia as girly as Natalya? No, but she does loves shoes and dressing up. She will usually dress up in whatever she find lying around too. Oh, and she is a lot taller then Natalya too. At 18months, she is taller then Natalya was at 2! She loves people to laugh at her, if she falls down, the best thing to do is laugh, and she will laugh too!
We love our baby girl, and her personality! She is lots of fun to have around. I guess we will keep her.