Isolde at 16 Months

She's already 16 months and three weeks actually but I haven't got around to posting this until now.  

• Starts dancing to any music the second she hears some.  She's always done it but now it's more conscious and she has a number of signature moves.
• Not much of a talker (as in proper words, she babbles a lot, so she's not quiet) yet. She takes after her father who didn't really speak until he was 3 (but is very talkative now).
• Very cuddly and wants to hug and kiss her little friends who are not always as keen as she.  She is very careful (most of the time) with other little babies, and it's so cute when she's kissing her little cousin Olivia (four months old).
• Also cuddles with her stuffed toys and dolls and she imitates stuff we do to/with her such as wipe their mouths, feed them välling and carries (or tries to at least) them on her shoulders. 
• Can sit on a regular chair if we prop it up with pillows or similar so she can reach the table.
• Got into a period of falling asleep on her own in the evenings but with a fever the week before we went on holiday, she got out of that routine.  Luckily it changed as soon as we got back from holiday, however she seems to dream a lot at night at the moment and the nightmares (?) often wake her.  She sleeps pretty well in general but comes to our bed at some point during by morning (by 5 at the latest usually) and lately she's had a period of waking up around midnight (because of the dreams?) and not being able to go back to sleep in her own (well, probably she would if we spent half an hour or so but we don't always feel like it in the middle of the night). Perhaps one of those developmental leaps?
• Now has six teeth - four bottom ones (one has recently come up) and two in her upper gum - and has a seventh on the way and possibly an eight.  I just read that teeth also matter for their speech development so maybe the fact she just recently started getting teeth is one reason why she doesn't say that many clear words?
• Has more will and shows more frustration, especially lately when she's wanted to be more carried and not had as much patience when things don't go her way.  That developmental leap again?
• Likes her toy pram (wooden Mikki one from when I was growing up) and puts all sorts of stuff in it. She also likes rocking on the rocking train/stuffed animal and driving around on her wheely bee.
• Is slowly learning how to get up and down stairs.  Well, up is fine but down is trickier since she has to do it backwards.  But if we tell her "sit down first, do it like when you go down from the sofa or the bed", it's like she's thinking and then she remembers.  She has friends who are much taller who are starting to learn how to walk up and down stairs on their own but our girl is too short for that.  It's also good that she's becoming more and more aware about dangerous things like stairs so she stops at the top now and waits.
• Likes wearing shoes and hats and is trying to dress herself and she's usually helping when we're dressing her - except when she's being naughty and is trying to run away from us instead :)
• Really likes baths (and showers, but baths are better) and has a lot of fun with her toys in the tub.  She mostly pours water on herself and blows bubbles and she likes playing with the water from the tap (not as fun anymore when the tub is filled and we turn it off).  She usually sits in a tub chair but lately she's becoming much better at sitting reasonably still without the chair, though a couple of times she's slipped and fallen under and swallowed water, but luckily it hasn't made her become afraid of water or baths.
• No progress on the potty front - she tends to pee when we put her there half of the times but she doesn't give us advance warning - but we haven't made a concerted push yet; will try during the summer when she can run around naked outside.
• Likes playing with keys and tries to unlock any doors or keyhole she can find.
• Can pull out the kitchen drawers, even the really big (1,2 m wide) and quite heavy ones and it looks funny when she uses her whole body as pulling weight. She likes playing with the contents while we are cooking but mostly she wants to be carried and look at what we're doing in the kitchen.