14, 15 and 16 Months!

Can you say your Mama is a slacker?  Geesh...I truly don't know what is wrong with me these past few months.  I just have not updated like I should've.  Plain and simple.  But...I am here today to try and record what I missed these past few months.  Here we go, Avery Jo!

14th month

• Starting to put words together - like "Hi Dad"
• Words you can say - Mama, Dad, Sissy, Up, Hop, What's this, What's that, This, I la la love you, All done, Uh Oh, Amen, Oh Boy, Hi, Bye
• Loves your blankie
• Starting to be more lovey-dovey
• You are psycho about playing outside!
• Your "Hi's" are crazy!  You say them constantly to anything - alive or not!
• I think you are starting to dream - you have started waking up in the night again, but put yourself back to sleep.
• More teeth!  Molars popped through around 13 3/4 months!
• Your hair is becoming curly in the back - love it!
• We started sitting on a little potty, just one or two times a day to get your comfortable with it - and you have successes at times!
• We love going to the library during the day - you love to play with all the fun toys there and I love getting books for you when you are on the potty!
• You are standing all on your own - in fact you can stand up from the ground not holding on to anything.
• You are a very, VERY vocal little girl - you have a scream that will make anyone's hair stand up!  And it's not always a bad scream, sometimes you are happy!
• You are a climber - you have easily figured out how to climb up the stairs a couple months ago, but not you are on to attempting to boost your leg up to climb just about anything.

15th -16th month

• You love lids and caps - you love to attempt to screw them on and off - and get really frustrated when you can figure it out!
• You have started walking 8-10 steps at a time, and could walk farther, but you sit your buns down once you get going too far!
• You are doing much better at playing by yourself - I attribute this to your independent play time (which we moved to your room this month so you have more room to play).
• You can point out people whenever we ask who they are - like, "Where is Kyndall...Megan?" and you point to your Sisters!
• Mimi and Pa were here and they got you a bike seat for the back of their bikes - you went riding for the first time and loved it!
• You have learned how to pray - so whenever we sit down to dinner, you just sit there and look at us with your hands together until we look at you and are reminded to pray!  We also pray before bedtime too.
• Your Aunt Soila and Cousin Andrew came to visit at the beginning of March.  You warmed up to them pretty quickly and soon got used to your Cousin sleeping on the couch in the morning when we came downstairs to eat breakfast.  The first day he wasn't there anymore, you put  your hands up like you were wondering where he went.  
• You have started finishing phrases.  We say, "ready, set..." and you say, "GO!".  Or, I will say, "One...." and you say, "TWO!".  
• Right around 15 months, you started REALLY walking everywhere and choosing to walk over crawl.  It took just a week or so of falling down here and there to be really good at it and now you are a champ!
• You are still taking two 1.5 hour naps a day.
• I can't even begin to count how many words you say now!  You attempt to say anything and everything that we say.  Right now, my favorite word is cracker.  The way you say it is so stinkin' cute!
• And your all time favorite word?  HI.  In fact, sometimes you probably say it 50-75 times a day!  We go to the grocery store and you make sure and hit everyone in that store with a "hi".  At least one...sometimes you go on for a few even if they already answered you back!  We joke that you are going to be a Walmart greeter when you get older!

Sweet baby girl, I can't tell you how much fun you have been the last few months.  You are a treat.  Every so often (if I am being honest) you get a little needy/screamy/whiney and there are a few rough days...but most of the days are smooth sailing with you and you are just my little sidekick.  We do everything together!  And you make everything that much more fun - especially since you say hi to everyone five times!  You are not afraid of strangers and love to be the life of the party.  You definitely already know how to show off...and that just boggles my mind.  How does this little girl that is just a one-year-old know how to put on a show and get laughs?  Well, I don't know how, but you do.  You love little kids too.  When we go to the library, you just walk over to the kids and start playing with them...whether they want you to or not!  

Your Sisters and Daddy love you so very much.  I can't even express to you what we would do without you.  You are the glue that unites us all together.  Your smile and laugh can make any of us forget that we had a bad day in a millisecond.  You are simply the best.  We love you!