20 months!

Ella turned 20 months while Jon and I were in DC, so I'm still a little late this month with photos...but at least it's not April yet.

We've finally hit on a solution that works to keep her hair out of her face -- a headband!  I picked this one up on a whim from the Target Dollar Spot last week, and she actually keeps it in her hair (well, most of the time).  Hopefully, I can find some more thin ones like this in different colors.

She looks so grown-up in this picture, I think.

She's finally (FINALLY) getting some more teeth in, too!  She'd had some molars (I think the 12-months ones) cut awhile back, and now she's getting in the two just to the right of the bottom middle teeth.

You can kind of see 'em in there.

So, what else?  She can say "please" now ("peeese!"), which is now her way of asking to be picked up and put on the sofa.   I found out yesterday she can unzip her jacket, as well as take it off and give it to me to put away.  She knows animal noises for: horse, cow, sheep, goat, pig, dog, cat, duck, rooster and owl (which, not coincidentally, are all the animals in The Very Busy Spider).

She has also discovered, much to my chagrin, the word "No," and what it actually means.  And she uses it -- a little too much for my tastes, but we're working on that. 

Tonight, she had a fall-down-on-the-floor fit because I asked her if she was done with her milk.  It didn't last long, but still -- I thought I had a few more months of happy baby before the tantrums kicked in.  Hopefully, it was just a one-off thing -- she really is in a good mood most of the time.