Chuckwalla

Chuckwalla is 19 months old. She is undoubtedly and quantifiably the best toddler on the planet. Sweet, cute, funny, smart, pithy, savvy, gelatinous and adorable. Her favorites:

∙ Reading. She will do this indefinitely if allowed.
∙ Talking. She's very lexically oriented but not terribly syntactically oriented. We counted her solid words at 18 months and she had 300, and it has been increasing by leaps and bounds since then. Her forays into sentence construction have gotten more bold recently. Altogether we love having a baby who we can have basic conversations with.
∙ Exploring outside. This too she can do forever if allowed.
∙ Animals. She loves badgers, toucans, owls, foxes and pandas the most.
∙ Kissing.
∙ The baby. She calls her "Azuacha" which we decided is too cumbersome for a nickname.

She's too entirely sweet for words. She is sweet going down for a nap, sweet when she's eating, sweet when she gets babysat, sweet when she plays with her friends, and sweet when she plays with her sister.

So, in other words, I don't care how nice you might think your toddler is, because Chuckwalla is demonstrably the greatest toddler on earth, and the second greatest in human history.