Anya at 18 months

Seriously Anya has started talking so much over night and expressing to us that she understands so much more than I thought she knew! 

Just for fun pictures from last year at Thanksgiving:

This year:

Here are some things that have happened in the last week that I want to remember.  I know there are more, but these are the first that came to my mind!:

1.)  She says "Ring" "Ring" while grabbing our hands means she wants to play "Ring around the Rosie!"  When we went to Zeke's house today she grabbed his hands and started to play it with him.  It's adorable!
2.)  Owls are one of her favorite animals.  She'll see an owl (big or small) and say "Ow".  Yesterday she was sitting out the table saying it and I said Anya I don't see any owls, and she said it again pointing to the small owl on her cup.  It amazes me that she can recognize the Winnie the Pooh Owl as an Owl and then a cartoon owl and knows it's an owl.
3.)  She loves looking at photos of people she knows.  She says Ari, Ari to Ariana's picture.  The other day she then made our noise for elephants and I then realized Ariana is holding a small elephant toy. 
4.)  We were shopping at Kohls and she said "Uh oh, uh oh," and just kept repeating until Josh realized we dropped her coat!
5.)  She is obsessed with anything puppy or doggie.  We have a book I just introduced to her call "Please Puppy Please" (Josh can't stand the book) but Anya loves it and wants us to read it over and over again to her!
6.)  Anya has been telling everyone we see in public (church, stores, friends, family) "Shhh" and putting finger to her mouth.  It's to funny!
7.)  Yesterday we were at Walmart and she said "ball".  I realized she saw the gumball machine near the door.  Seriously, how did she see that!?
8.)  Just within the last week she has started to give tons of hugs and kisses!  It melts my heart.  There is nothing sweeter than getting hugs and kisses from her all day long!