Time flies

I can't believe we're here already. 2009. By the end of this year, I'll be the mother of a 2 year old. Weird.

The Animalia is now fifteen months old.

In addition to the many things she says and does, she has started to say the word pato. This word is used for platano, zapato, and also pato. It takes me a minute sometimes to figure out if she wants the banana, the shoe or the duck. We'll get it down sometime. She's also started saying manos and clapping as she says it. Cute. She also knows sientate, acuestate, and parate, knows that her zapetas go in the basura, is figuring out the whole potty concept and all of a sudden will tell you what ratoncitos say in her tiniest voice. That's in the running for my new favorite cute thing. Oh, except for when she does Itsy Bitsy Spider/Arana Pequenita. WITH THE HAND MOTIONS! SO CUTE I WANT TO SQUEEZE HER AND BITE HER. Note to self: must learn to do diacritics on laptop.

And she's big. Officially, she's 32 inches tall and 25 pounds. Her head is a whopping 42 cm around... much much bigger than when she was born. It was 16 1/2 cm then, kid you not, and we just thought her head was going to be tiny, like mine. Well, we were wrong. I think it's the gods telling me I was an expletive for teasing the Nina about her big head. And now I have a baby with a big head. Baby hats don't fit her anymore. She's in toddler hats now, thank you very much, not that she'll keep a hat on to save her life, but still.