Avie is 21 months!

Our Avie is growing up way too fast!! She is talking in full sentences and you can understand about 90% of what she says, she is working on potty training and will go #1 in the potty most of the time, but we're still trying to convince her to do #2 somewhere other than her diaper while she's hiding behind a chair! She and Ellie are sharing a bedroom now, so we bought bunk beds, but they choose to sleep together in a twin bed on the bottom every night. She did not like the fireworks - they were way too loud for her, she is sleeping like a champ now that she has her tonsils out, and she is allergic to mosquito bites. They swell up way bigger than normal, get super hot, then eventually ooze and scab over. We're doing as much as we can to keep the mosquitos away - spray, candles, spraying mouthwash all around?!?, and I just bought an ankle bracelet that is supposed to keep them away, so we'll see. Her favorite "chores" are laundry and dishes (woohoo!). She loves putting the laundry in the washer, then the dryer and helping with detergent and fabric softener and she always puts the silverware away - although when she's not looking, I go back and sort them because she just puts all of it in the same slot. She loves for Ellie to read books to her and she tells her "dood dob" (good job) - I guess she's heard me tell Ellie good job when she "reads" (from memory) books like Brown Bear, Brown Bear. I can't believe it's been almost 2 years and I can't believe how blessed we are with such great girls!