15 month update

Today, our Sweet Little is 15 months old! I can't even believe it. She is looking older to me every day and is learning so many new things all the time. It's amazing how she just soaks up new information. She hasn't had her 15 month appointment yet, so I'm not sure what her stats are.

Her vocabulary is definitely expanding. She understands a lot of English, so communicating to her is pretty easy. Though she continues to prefer to speak in her own language, she is starting to say a few more words in English. Her newest words are "fish", "shoe", and "quack."

Lately, it has felt like school at our house in the mornings. One of Little's favorite books for the moment is a Mother Goose book. It's a long book (has 100 rhymes in it) and she wants to look through it over and over. She mostly likes to point at the children and animals and make the animal sounds. If we come to a page with a song, we have to stop and do the motions, like Pat-a-Cake and Row, Row, Row Your Boat. She also waves at the people on the pages if they are waving. It's really been a great teaching tool.

Little is really becoming a Daddy's girl, even though Frank won't admit it to me. She cries big crocodile tears when he leaves for work, and for those of you who know her best, you know this is a big deal because she doesn't cry much at all. Also, every night before we go upstairs for bedtime, she and Daddy dance. She'll even let us know if she's ready to dance by coming up to us and moving her shoulders back and forth. They dance to fast songs, slow songs, any kind of song. She occasionally sings while they are dancing. It's so sweet to see her just hold onto his head and look at him and smile. She LOVES her Daddy!

She refuses to eat any food that is attached to babies, even baby yogurt. She'll eat Frank's Greek yogurt, but will not eat her Gerber yogurt anymore. She also prefers to use big people utensils as opposed to her plastic ones. In fact, she'll eat anything if you put it on a fork and hand it to her, even brussel sprouts. She has a baby doll that she likes to carry around. It's so sweet. I'm trying to teach her to be soft with the baby, though, instead of just throwing her around. I want her to get some good practice before her baby brother or sister gets here.