15 Months

HI!!  It's almost my 15 month birthday and I wanted to stop by and catch you up on what I've been up to these past few weeks.  I've got the beginnings of my third and fourth teeth, my top two to match the bottom two I've had since right around my birthday.  In spite of the fact that I've only got two real teeth I eat just about anything you give me.  I love to eat! But, I'm actually quite small still.  This onsie I'm wearing is a 6-9 month onsie and it still fits.  Though, to be fair, it's pretty tight and Mommy sort of squeezes me into it for the few minutes it takes to get my picture each month.

I've had a pretty bad cold for a few weeks now with a cough that scared Mommy enough to take me to the doctors office TWICE in three days.  But, good news, they said it's nothing more than a lot of snot so there's nothing to really do.  I've just got to work through it.

I'm a great hugger and I love to dance.  Daddy says he thinks I'll be his music baby.  Oh, and I'm really falling for this cute little raccoon doll Anutie Erin bought for Abby when she was a baby.  I love to carry her around with me everywhere and I snuggle her close when I'm sleeping.   I'm going to have to start working on name for her!

I don't have any  new words since last time we talked.  I say, Mama, Dada, Go, Woah (!!) and Baba.  Mommy's been working on teaching me Abby but I'm not quite there yet.  Soon though, soon!  See you next month!

14 months

Hi guys!  I'm a few days late because we've been busy (seems like we're always busy).  I've been growing and learning a lot in the past month.  I am pretty good at eating with a fork now.  I can stab things onto it and can get them into my mouth most times.  Mommy taught me how to sign for "more" but "all done" didn't go over so well.  I have my own way of signing "all done".  It comes it two stages.  First I start feeding Staley my food and then, if nobody's paid attention to that, I start twisting around in my chair and pulling at my bib to get it off.  When Mommy sees that's she know's what I mean.  I still don't have a ton of words but I did pick up baba for bottle this past month.

I dance on cue now and it's sort of a little shoulder shimmy.  I especially love to dance when I hear music.  Mommy's working on teaching me how to point out my body parts like belly, nose, toes etc.  I'm not good at it yet, but I bet by next month I'll have a few mastered.  I figured out how to get out of the tub all by myself this month (Mommy is not a fan) and I find it quite funny to run around the house naked until someone catches me.  Oh!  And I've got one more tooth coming in.  It's my third and it's a top one.

But, the thing that Mommy is MOST excited about is that I  now give hugs.  The biggest, cutest, fully body hugs and she told Daddy it's her most favorite thing of all the things I've learned this far.  If you ask for a hug I just lean forward with my arms open wide and lay my whole body into yours.  It's quite adorable (according to Mom).

This weeks fabric came from Daddy's Uncle Bob and Aunt Kathy.  They picked it because they said that they can't wait to see the smarty pants I become.  Mommy thought this would be a good month to use it because I've learned a LOT of new things this month and because my sister is starting preschool next week.  I'm not really sure what that means, but she's really excited about it.  Someday maybe I'll be able to go to preschool with her.  I think that would be fun!