15 Months

Life with a 15 month old is always entertaining. She is quite the little comedian these days. Some nights we find ourselves without even turning on the TV and just watching her in action.

She has several words:
"hiiiiii"
"heeeey"
"hiii-deee"
"et" = eat
"wa sis?" = "what's this"
"mama"
"dada"

and she also has a language all her own, that only she can understand, which is what we hear most often.

She loves to read and the book is almost always upside down. She has recently started pointing to the words as she reads (I do this when I read to her.....once a kindergarten teacher, always a kindergarten teacher). She is quite cute when she is "reading" as she "reads" aloud. I love it!

She LOVES to walk around with her blanket on her head. We get a good laugh out of this because it usually ends up with her bouncing off of a piece of furniture. She walks very slowly and carefully but she still usually ends up in a wreck. She thinks it is just as funny as we do.

She loves her puppy, Gabby. She really loves to feed Gabby her food. They are two peas in a pod and it is alot of fun to watch them together.

She loves to scream. Mama does not love this so much. It is a high pitched, at the top of her lungs, girlie scream. YIKES!! She especially likes to do this in public. Bigger YIKES!! It's not an "I'm mad" type of scream, it's a "let's see how loud I can get so everyone will know I am here" kinda scream. I should reiterate this, she LOVES to scream.

She loves to go. She is always on the move. I'm pretty sure she never stops. She is in constant motion. She has been walking "full time" since she was 13 1/2 months old. She is also a climber and loves the stairs. She can climb all the way to the top of our stairs and then scoot on her bottom all the way down. She is a mover and a shaker.

She loves chicken. Since she is allergic to milk and soy, she eats a lot of chicken. Thank goodness she loves it. I'm waiting for her to get tired of it. She also enjoys peas, corn, mandarin oranges, cheerios, applesauce and that's about it.....did I mention she is also PICKY. Yep, she's my child. It is hard to feed her a variety of things anyway with this whole milk thing. She has me and Terry and thank for that. We were both allergic as well.

She loves for Daddy to play with her. He can get her in a giggle fit like nobody else. I love that too!!

She loves to make us laugh. It cracks me up when she realizes she has done something to make us laugh and then she deliberately continues in a quest to get more laughs out of us.

Mama loves when:

she giggles
she belly laughs
she has crazy hair in the mornings
she snuggles when she is sleepy
she grunt/growls when she is thirsty
she grins from ear to ear
she gives wet, slobbery kisses
she pats me when I'm holding her
she plays with her toys and keeps herself busy - I love to watch her!
she wallers all over me
she walks around with a purpose
she sits to scoot down the 1 inch drop off from the garage to the driveway - makes me laugh!
she wants me to pick her up - miss independent!
she reads to herself
she brings me a book to read to her
she gets excited to see me in the afternoons

Mama loves this baby girl so very much!! Sometimes I am just overcome with emotion just holding or looking at her. She is such a precious little angel.

We went for her 15 month check up and here are her stats:
Height - 29.5 inches - 18% she hasn't grown since her 12 month
Weight - 18.4 lbs - 1% yep she has lost weight, more on that later
Head - 19 1/4 - 99% that thing just keeps growing and growing

SOO she has lost some weight. 14 ozs in 2 weeks to be exact. She had a cold and I took her to the doctor 2 weeks before her 15 month. She weighed 19.2 at that time. I of course freaked out a little when I read the scale at the last appointment. Doctor thinks it's because she isn't getting enough calories from her Rice milk (what we put her own when the Soy started going straight through her). Doctor told us to put her back on formula, nutramigen. We did. She hates it. We have a weigh in on the 10th and I'm afraid she won't have gained anything. Mom tried putting the formula in pancakes but she still seems to know it's there. We put a tiny spoonful of it in her Rice milk and she knew it was there. There is no tricking her. I'm not real sure what they will suggest next time. She doesn't seem to be acting any different or any less active. I'm not real sure what is going on but I hope we get it figured out.

Also, I'm just going to throw this out there. How in the world do you get your child to sleep in their own bed??? This, after I SWORE I would NEVER let MY children sleep in my bed. How did this happen? I suppose it happened when we decided we needed sleep rather than fighting her all night, getting up and down. We put her in her bed every night but she tends to only stay for a few hours and ends up in our bed (yes, it's because we put her there). We tried the whole "let her cry it out" thing. She pooped. Yes, that's right, she POOPED. What do you do when that happens? Well, I actually left her there because I knew she would wake up pretty soon. She did fall asleep.....SITTING STRAIGHT UP!! Of course she woke up when I went in to check on her and I couldn't take it anymore....plus, she had pooped. Then for the next month or so she screamed bloody murder anytime we went into her room and she even thought we were going towards her crib. Well I got in there with her one day to play. Yes, you read that right....I got into her crib to play. She is now not having a conniption fit when we go near it. In fact Daddy built her fort in there and they played the other day (no, daddy did not get in....I know you were wondering). We just don't know what to do to KEEP her ASLEEP and IN the crib. I'm not sure this child will ever sleep through the night. She just isn't a sleeper. Not really sure how that happened to MY child, sleeping is my favorite. Anyway, I know there are some books out there to help with this situation but I'm not sure what the best ones are. If anybody has a suggestion let me know.

Alright, enough of that. Onto the pictures. I took her out and had a little photo shoot with her. She actually smiled for me.....ok, maybe it was daddy :) But, she is my very favorite subject!!

"there she is"

"yes, i know i'm pretty cute"

"hiiiiii"

"i told you, i know i'm cute"

"mama, are you almost finished?"

"eeeeeeeeeee"

"i'm a big girl"

"see ya next time"