In honor of Avery’s 22-month birthday today, here are 22 facts about Avery right now:

1. Hair color: Light brown.

2. Eye color: Brown.

3. Eating: Three square meals a day (breakfast at 7 or 8 a.m., lunch at noon and dinner at 6:30 p.m.) with a small snack after nap around 3 p.m.

3. Sleeping: Nap from about 1 to 3 p.m. and overnight from about 7:30 p.m. to 7 or 8 a.m.

4. Words: My goodness, the girl won’t stop talking! It seems that she picks up at least one new word a week. And she’s starting to talk in two- and three-word sentences.

5. Favorite toy: Babies! She always carries a baby, and we can hardly leave the house without taking two or three babies with us.

6. Favorite babies: Pinky, a small doll that perfectly fits in her arms. And Ellen, my preemie Cabbage Patch doll from several decades ago.

7. Shoe size: 5.

8. Shirt size: 2T.

9. Pant size: 18 months but quickly moving to 24 months.

10. Teeth: It’s hard to tell, but it looks like she has six on top and six on bottom.

11. Favorite food: Cookies! She always asks for a cookie after every meal, including breakfast.

12. Favorite snack food: Goldfish crackers.

13. Favorite drinks: Water and milk.

14. Favorite book: Her Beginner’s Bible and If You Give a Cat a Cupcake.

15. Favorite TV “shows:” Our cable provider has a Barbie on-demand station as well as an information station with videos of fish and turtles in the background. She demands to watch both of these channels by bringing us the remote control and asking for “Bardie” or “turtle.”

16. Favorite games: Ring Around the Rosie, the Hokey Pokey and Duck, Duck, Goose (but her version really is just Tag).

17. Favorite Christmas decorations: Her Fisher Price manger scene and the five or six musical stuffed animals and snowmen at Grandma and Grandpa Hromada’s house. She loves to play them all at the same time. I don’t know how my parents stay sane listening to that all day!

18. Favorite winter accessories: Her “hat” and “goves” (“gloves”).

19. Favorite animals: “Doggies,” “tats” (“cats”) and “peep” (“sheep”).

20. Favorite activity: She loves to “carl” (“color”) with crayons or just a pen.

21. Newest act of independence: Climbing onto the couch by herself.

22. Newest trick: Dancing. I’ll post a video of this cuteness later!

I hope you enjoyed learning a little more about Avery!

(I stole this idea and many of the list items from my blogging friend Megan.)

22 facts at 22 months