Daddy's Day and 20 Months

Happy Father's Day to my sweet wonderful husband! We celebrated Daddy's Day by letting him sleep in (a real gift in our house!) and then taking him out to lunch. Loralie picked out Daddy's card, which had a frog riding a motorcycle on it. She got very excited in the store, yelling "frog! MOTORCYCLE!" Then Daddy got to go on a shopping spree for new jeans and shoes (sounds a little girly, but his idea, so I went with it). This seems like a rather thoughtless gift on my part, but you must understand that my husband doesn't ever want anything that costs less than a thousand dollars. And if he does, he buys it for himself! And if you buy him a gift card, he will save it for a year and possibly never use it. And if you just give him cash he will use it to buy something dreadful like gas or paying the bills. So I gave him cash in his card with a requirement that he had to spend it by the end of the day, preferably on something fun! My own Dad, who is the best dad in the world, took my mom to the lake for the weekend, so I didn't even get to see him on the big day.

In unrelated news, our baby is now twenty months old! She weighs a whopping 19lbs, and is getting rather tall. She likes to "Eat Food! Eat Suppah! High Chair! Snack!" and she also likes to color. She is doing what I would call first day of kindergarten work (she scribbles and then tells me it is a swing and a slide just about every time!) She is starting to sing the ABC song, however she is still mixing up the order of the letters and throwing in some new ones ("double-H"). She claps for herself at the end every time. Still not having a lot of potty success. She tells us when she has an "Ooey Pooey Yuck" but it is always after the fact. She says some funny phrases now like "Oh Man!" and "Oh my Goodness!" Recently everything she says has a "too" on it. Example "Mommy go outside too?" "Daddy eat food too?" "Baby Ada go nigh nigh too?" She loves her cousin Ada and talks about her all the time, and today she asked for "Mot and Annie" (Matt and Andie). Took me a minute to figure that one out :) She is still taking good naps in the afternoon, but is resisting bed time more and more. She is even trying some very advanced stall tactics including "Loralie Hungry! Eat Suppah? Drink? Potty? NEE NEE AND BOPPA???" Not sure what to do about that. It really makes you start to doubt yourself when your baby says she is "so hungry!" with tears running down her little face. Did I feed her enough? She can't possibly be really hungry, can she? Can babies starve within a matter of hours???