18 Months

Well, Raiah isn't a baby any more, that's for sure. She's a full blown toddler complete with tantrums, emotional turbulence, lots and lots to say and very very little patience. She basically repeats everything we say but her daily vocabulary has grown exponentially, which is awesome! She seems to know exactly what she's NOT supposed to do. She'll do it while yelling "NONONONO" (I  know a lot of kids do this and it's hilarious!). she knows some shapes and colors but only says "circle" and "purple", the rest she'll just point to. she knows most animals by name and the sounds of some (like every time I tell her to eat her chicken, she goes "bagh bagh bagh??" she knows cows say "moo" and sheep say "baa" and dogs say "woof woof"). she has also started feeding herself a lot more lately, to the point that she won't eat unless she's feeding herself. 

she somehow always knows exactly where we're heading. she'll call out "granpa!" before i even turn into their street and claps and yells "HOME!!!" when i pull into the Target parking lot :) she can also count 1 to 5 in farsi and knows all of her books by name or subject. I try to read some of her books in farsi but she always wants me to start over in english. I'll get to page 3 and she yanks the book away, goes back to page one and says "doreh? doreh?" (dobareh is farsi for "again") until I start reading in english and then she'll let me finish the book. ha!

her vocabulary at 18 months:

monkey dumpy dumpy ("no more monkeys jumping on the bed")

taab (farsi for swing)

park

show

moobie (movie)

hockey
all done

window

table

chair

tree (means tree or broccoli)

gol (farsi for flower)

hair/nose/toes/eyes/ear/teeth/knees

bubbles

colololo (color)

book

cat

ake (snake)

lion

zeba (zebra)

milk

cup

dance

blanket

baby

shoes

socks

pants

diaper

"thank you" and "mersi"

sheep

fish

dog

duck
bear

target

cracker

apple/bewi (blueberry)/nana (banana)

puzzi (puzzle)

ball/boom=baloon

hot

bath

farm

tractor

plus all of our names.

and I'm sure I'm forgetting about 25 more words. and she talks constantly. it never stops. even in her sleep. sometimes it's a string of all the words listed above or just gibberish but the girl LOVES to hear her own voice.