Miss Amelia... Growing up so fast!

So Amelia is now 19 months old... I can't believe it! A lot has happened since I posted back in November. Amelia is such a joy! She is silly and loves her sister so much. She copies everything she does... I haven't decided if that is going to be a good thing or a bad thing, yet. She is not yet walking, but loves to stand and walk with support. She is crawling around everywhere, but still has her easy going personality so we haven't had any traumatic experiences with her new found mobility. Gross motor is definitely her weakness, which is very hard to get used to after Mary who was and is so physical. Amelia has great fine motor...I am keeping my fingers crossed that she will be my artist. She can feed herself with a spoon and drink from a cup, but has major feeding issues and won't eat anything hard (with the exception of puffs.) Ironically she has a great pincer grasp and has been able to pick up little tiny pieces of food since she was very little, but spits it out in disgust if it ever makes it to her mouth. Okay now on to her real strength... Communication. She is such a talker! She signs a lot, but is very verbal. I won't list all of her signs and words, because she adds more to the list every day. At her last speech evaluation, which is based on a score of 100 being the average score for a typical child, Amelia scored 120 on her receptive language (meaning what she can understand) and 110 on her expressive (meaning what she can express.) So my Down syndrom little girl scored an average score of 115, which is above average for the typical child! She constantly amazes us! Amelia loves playing with "Little People" and baby dolls ("baba") and loves going to her Kindermusik class.
She loves Elmo ("Elbo") and bathtime ("bash") She is sooo tiny! She weighs only 20 lbs and can fit into most 12 month outfits. She is a little peanut! She may be short, but she makes up for it... she has some "junk in the trunk" to put it nicely. Recently before bathtime Jeremy decided to sit her on the potty. Two things suprised us... One, her bottom was so big that he didn't have to hold her on the potty! Two, she actually peed! She looked down as she started to go, then looked up in suprise, and then she clapped and squeeled for herself! It was so cute! Now every night before bathtime we sit her on the potty and she goes. It saves us from bathing her and Mary in pee-water. I could write so much more about how much I love Amelia and how much joy she brings to our family, but I will spare you the novel. Thanks for all of you who have made it through this long post. Thanks for letting me share with you a little bit about my sweet little girl!