18 months already?

Chloe turned 18 months today. Time is just flying by. She certainly is keeping us busy! Last weekend we went to buy her some new shoes. Now every morning she likes to try on all her shoes and decide which ones to wear. And it is usually not the same pair two days in a row. We're going to have a fashion girl on our hands soon.

Chloe continues to talk more. And she still uses her signs. We've been taking her to OMSI quite a bit lately. They have a dinosaur display there that she really likes. This weekend it is supposed to be nice out so we are hoping to go to the zoo. Chloe loves books with animals, signing songs

about animals and making animal sounds. We think she'll really love the zoo!

We're gearing up for our first trip to Chicago next week so that Chloe can finally meet her Uncle Gary and Aunt Eileen, as well as my Aunt Arlene and Uncle Archie.

Here's some pictures from the last month. I'm hoping I get better at updating this blog weekly.

This is Chloe with her 2 favorite men in her life:

We bought Chloe her first radio flyer tricycle which she is having fun riding around. She is also enjoying going to the park and going down the slide by herself. . which will be great news for the summer. . we have lots of nice parks nearby and it will be great to take her there to tire her out!

We had our good friends Kama and Joe and their kids Ella and Max over for a pre-easter brunch to exchange easter baskets for the kids. Chloe loves Ella and the 3 of them had a good time playing together and terrorizing Zack.

Chloe has been really enjoying her school. She has some wonderful teachers and we are really lucky to have her at such a special place. The week before spring break, Chloe and I arrived at school and there were pictures painted by each of the kids in front of their cubbies. Every child's picture was a handprint, except Chloe's, which looked like this:

One thing Chloe does not like is to get her hands dirty. If she is about to fall outside, she'll do anthing not to fall onto her hands. Her teacher said she tried many times to get Chloe to do a hand print. . the best she got was a toe print. . which is the red blot in the middle left :-)

Last weekend we had our friends David and Tamara over for brunch. Tamara brought her dog Bella, who was the perfect companion for Chloe. If only Zak was like this with Chloe -- sweet, patient, happy to have her tail tugged on and just genuinely comfortable with kids.

And here are some other random shots that we wanted to share: