Mia's 18 month's Old!

Mia turned 18 months old on September 2nd!
I took her into the doctor for oodles of shots as well as her stats:
Weight: 22 lbs. 26%
Height: 32.5" 85%
Head: 45cm 16%

The thing to note is that her head has grown from the measly 10th percentile to a whopping 16th percentile... I don't know why it's so small, but I do know that I can still squeeze her into her itty bitty delicious baby headbands!

Mia is impossible during church these days. Seriously. I can't remember the last time we made it to the Sacrament song before having to take her out. And if she ever gets out of our pew, she beelines it straight for the pulpit. Last testimony meeting she got so close that I thought I was going to have to bear my testimony if I was going to get her back to our seat. It takes all of our energy to keep her with us at church. A few times I have ended up in the Primary room with her. I can listen to the speakers in there and set up my singing time stuff and she gets to run around. Win, win, win.

She is going through a huge separation anxiety phase right now. If I leave she wails and screams and thrashes. Especially when we take her to nursery... it's like she doesn't want to be told what to do. If we tell her to go play in the nursery, she wants to stay with us. If we tell her to stay in our pew she tries to run and get away from us. Her "red hair" is really starting to shine these days if you know what I mean.

This is her "cheeeeeeese" face.

And her teeth... I know already that we're in for big orthodontist bills from all of our kids. But Mia might have to wait until her 20's before she ready for braces since her teeth are the slowest things EVER to come in. She just started getting some signs of molars 2 weeks ago when she turned 18 months... other than that it's just her 4 1/2 front teeth. Maybe by high school she'll get to have some apple and carrot slices.