18 months old! What happened to our baby?

As of Monday, Miley is now 18 months old!!!! Such a great age but what happened to our baby? Time has flown by entirely to fast but thank goodness for this blog so I can look back and see how much she's grown. To mark her 1.5 birthday, we set up her transitional toddler bed. That's right folks, Miley is no longer in the crib! She LOVES climbing in and out of her bed. The first time she climbed in she had a look of pride on her face. She also likes to put all her babies and stuffed animals in her bed so they can go "Nigh, nigh".

For the first couple of nights, she'd wake up and start banging on her door crying to be let out. She'd do this for 10 to 30 minutes and then suddenly all would go quiet. I half expect to find her asleep at the door but she always climbs back in bed. On Tuesday she woke up at 3 am (nothing unusually, this is been going on for 2 months) so I quickly got up to check on her to make sure she didn't fall out of bed. She was just sitting in bed waiting for someone to come. I laid her back down and tried patting her back to sleep. She just sat up half awake, climbed out of bed, walked right past me sucking her thumb and playing with her hair, shuffled down the dark hallway and into our room, stood at my side of the bed, raised her arms and said "up". Guess she still prefers our bed. Knock on wood, that was the last time she woke up in the early morning. I hope this means she'll start sleeping again but I won't hold my breath because yesterday she was a drool machine. Teething again already, I really hope not.

Here are some comparison photos of Miley at 6 months and at 18 months (what a difference a year makes):

6 months


18 months