20 months

Pancake is lot less difficult now than when she turned 18 months.  She's more reasonable when I tell her she can't do or have something.  I just told her to get off the table and she said, "okay, Mommy," and got down.  Her language continues to be a strength.  Right now she is standing on the stool in front of the kitchen sink saying, "wash my hands, Mommy."  Her cutest new phrase is, "what ah you doing, Mommy?"  And, "what happened, Mommy?"  She says the latter one whenever anyone has a surprised or annoyed reaction to something.  I have to get her on video again soon.  Her intonation is just so cute.  She also likes to demand that I sit, then she sits, then she folds her hands in her lap and diplomatically asks, "how ah you, Mommy?"

She yells at Doodle when he's bothering her, whether he took a toy away from her or is crowding her while she's playing.  She says, No No No No Doodle!  She's definitely not a push over.  And I don't think she'll have the same lack of assertiveness that Doodle has.  

She still enjoys talking on the phone, having both real and pretend conversations.  She says, "hewoh, how ah you?  Good."  She has mastered the shape sorter, and still loves to play it.  She likes to push Doodle's trains around the tracks, especially through the tunnel.  She sometimes calls herself by her name, "Pancake do it self!" and sometimes she uses the pronoun, "I want apple."  She wants to do most thing "by self" now, including going down the stairs, which she does quite well.

We just got back from my mother's house in Vermont.  As soon as we got there Pancake went to our room, opened the curtain to the closet where her crib usually is and said, "Pancake's bed.  Pancake sweeps here."  I couldn't believe she remembered where she slept and where the room was.  The last time we were there she couldn't verbally articulate herself, but the memory was still there.

Just now she was trying to grab a banana out of the basket.  She ended up with two in her hands and said, "two bananas!"  When she wants to pass through a narrow opening she says, "Sowy, sowy, I want to get by."

She makes me laugh, she surprises me with her wit, memory and vocabulary, she's physically cute, but even more her personality and the way she talks are cute.