20 months

Highlights of 20 months:

• Lots of talking! Rosie is picking up words left and right. We really have to be careful what we say around her because there is no getting past her. 
• Master of micro expressions. Maybe it was all the Lie To Me that Mommy watched during her pregnancy, but Rosie is really picking up on emotion and using it to communicate. She is a master manipulator of her eyebrows, i.e. the puppy dog face. She is also turning into quite the jokester and will do things for pure comedic value.
• Rosie is still drawn to the little ones, babies especially, and loves to be social. Along with being social, she has started to remember and ask for people she cares for. This includes family members and her best friend, P. 
• Pretend play. It is really cool to see Rosie be able to pretend and role play. She will pretend to feed her koala stuffed animal, Caleb, by picking from the imaginary blueberry bush. After being told not to pick Vavô's grapes, she would pretend to pick them and eat them, sharing with us as well.
• Sing/read along. Rosie has begin to remember words to songs and books and will sing along. Notably, "I'm a pout pout fish with a pout pout face, so I spread the dreary wearies all over the _______ (place!)". She loves the Winnie the Pooh theme song, and will interject with "Pooh!" and loves saying "silly old ______ (bear!)". She's starting to recite her ABCs, though she doesn't get past B on her own. When we ask her to sing she's started to come up with her own la la la tunes. It is THE sweetest thing in the whole wide world.
• Tech baby. Rosie is able to navigate around the iPhone and iPad...for good or for bad. She has mastered finding the netflix app and turning on Dora the Explorer (Swiper, no swiping!) without any assistance. A little scary.
• Sign language. Rosie's pick up a few more signs and it's always surprising how quickly she does so now. After just a few times she picked up "peach" and "delicious." It's been really helpful in figuring out what she wants. She frequently asks for "pear" and "berries" using words and sign language.
• Eating. Rosie's diversifying her palette...just a bit. In addition to fruits (still her favorite) she's a little carnivore. We are still working on veggies. Her favorite is by far peppers (or is that technically a fruit?).
• Sass. Along with all her other changes has come a growing amount of sass. She gets upset when she doesn't get her way and will bang her head against the wall to show you. She will stuff something in her mouth quickly when you ask her to share (though she is getting much better at sharing now). She developed a yell/clap thing that was not so exciting, but only happened once so hopefully won't be recurring. We expected and hoped for a little fireball and now we enter the stage of helping her manage it. 

Moral of the story: we love this girl and are forever in awe of her!