15 Months

[Can you sense her disdain?]

Hard to believe it has been 15 months....

Here are a few things about Grace this month:

Walking. Grace is soooooo close. She cruises along on everything and walks holding onto just one finger on one of our hands.

Loves dogs! Loves them. As a special treat last weekend, we picked a park with a playground that also had a dog park, so Grace could go and see all the doggies. Turns out there were no swings, so we mostly watched the dogs. She gets so excited when she sees dogs. They might be something worth walking for! Twice a few weeks ago, we were outside after dinner, and I took her over to see some dogs that were out for a walk. I was crouched down behind her and she was standing between my legs… and she literally lurched forward to get to the dogs. No fear! But we’re very careful to make sure the owners say it’s ok. We met one doggie who doesn’t like babies, so we just watched from afar.

Words. I was just reading through the word list from last month trying to see if we have any more additions. Owl, flower, row, NO, Anna (one of her teachers), egg, door. We think we heard her saying 'hot' tonight while we were eating dinner. We’ve been working on animal sounds. The bee goes “buzz”. The owl says “hoo”. The cow says “moo”. The lion goes “roar”. The monkey not only goes “oh oh oh”, but there are hand gestures, too - there was a lot of this at the Gorilla Easter Egg Hunt at the zoo. And a sentence…..Easter dinner, we ate outside and Grace said “Hi Bumble” waving to the bee that was circling over us. That counts as a sentence, right?

Shakes her head yes and no, but not sure if/when she’s doing it she’s really meaning yes or no.

Still only 8 teeth, but some very swollen gums. So maybe we'll be seeing those pesky molars soon.

Points to her eyes, ears, head, nose, belly, and belly button. Also, ours and anyone else who will let her. Some confusion between toes and nose.

Has developed quite an attachment to Mama. This is very new this month, ever since she was home sick for a few days. It was getting very hard to leave her at school every day, but this week we haven’t had any incidents (knock on wood), and lots of blowing of kisses when I leave. YAY. Pick up time in the evening has become a different experience as well. She used to stop what she was doing and almost whine until we picked her up. Now she is almost too busy to be bothered with us and barely pays any attention to us as we gather her things.

Will not look at the camera! I hope the pro can get her to! We've been going for walks or spending time outside after dinner now, since daylight savings time....so lots of outdoor and/or azalea shots! And more to come...we're about to have the best bloom on our azalea's since we moved in.