22 months

I am able to have an actual conversation with Pancake where she asks intelligent questions and makes related comments.  Out of the blue she hugs me and says, "I love you, Mommy."  She takes a much more active role in controlling her own life than she did even a month ago.  She will run away when I'm trying to get her coat on, and say, "No, I don't want my coat on."  Or she will announce, "Mommy, come play with me in Pancake's room."  Though she still refers to herself in the third person, she has been using pronouns much more. 

She keeps her dolls' names straight, and there are an increasing number of dolls.  She likes to dress, feed and read to her dolls.  She will turn the pages of a book making up words that resemble the plot as it occurs on each specific page, and if there are just a few words she'll often remember exactly what the page says.  She occasionally will say, "Mommy change my diaper.  I pooped."  She sometimes calls me or Mr. D a "stupid head" or a "poopy head" which we discourage, of course, but she thinks it's funny. 

Her face is so demonstrative.  Her intonation is adorable.  She's awfully lovable, even when she's calling me a stupid head.