15 months

Amelie is 15 months old today. Wow! She's getting so big and soaking EVERYTHING in. We are amazed how much she is learning every day. She is an awesome communicator… she tells us when she's hungry (which is pretty much all the time), when she wants to go night-night, when she wants milk, etc. She LOVES to dance!! This is her gettin' down to her favorite video:

 

I'm pretty sure she got her dance moves from her:

Here are some of her recent milestones: (i'm recording all this mostly for my memory, so bare with me)


• walking and running
• "jumping"
• talking A LOT
• signing and communicating really well
• eating A LOT (pretty sure she's a bored eater)
• sleeping for 11-12 hours a night and still taking 2 naps during the day
• 2 teeth on top, 4 on the bottom and 1 starting to poke through toward the back (not sure if it's a molar)
• "reading" lots of books (she constantly wants to read!)


spoken words:
her favorite: HI!
mama
dada
go
no
momo
up
dog ("daw")
more ("moe")
night-night ("nie-nie")
cow
moo
duck ("duh")
quack-quack ("kah-kah")
nose ("nooooh")
mouth ("mow")
roar ("RARW!")
baby
water ("wahwah")
me
uh-oh
good girl ("goo gurrrr")

signs:
more
please
cat
dog
bath
eat/hungry
milk
apple
baby
all done
flower
ouch

associations:
eyes
hair
nose
mouth
ears
belly
lion
cat
dog
hippo
bath
night night
dance
jump
milk
put your boppy (paci) in your bed
shoes
feet/foot
hands
hat
water
last bite
… there's really too many of these to keep going!

greatest show on earth!

Our amazing friends, Todd & Timi, were so generous and got us a sweet deal on some circus tickets. We were really excited… a lot for ourselves, but mostly for Amelie! We went with our friends, Ginny and Bob and their 3 kiddos and had GREAT seats. Turns out, Amie could care less about the circus.

The first 10 minutes of the show she would look at the all the action and then look back at me with the most worried look on her face, like, "help me, mama!," but after she realized we were no, in fact, in harms way, she seemed to kind of enjoy the show a little. Every now and then she would look at a lion or an elephant and point and say something, but the rest of the time she spent trying to talk to Rush (one of our friend's kids) and just going back and forth between our laps… she really got a kick out of that. At intermission, Ant went to get some cotton candy. I was so excited cause I just KNEW she was gonna love it. Ha! She was actually quite terrified of the cotton candy. We would hold it up to her mouth and she would brush it away and turn her head in fear. Then she just got a kick out of feeding it to us… so we ate a lot of cotton candy. I was actually pretty ok with that :)

 

ready to go to the circus!

 

not really sure what to think…

 

still not sure, but trying to enjoy it!

 

pretty :)

 

ginny + bob + hawk + stella + rush = one awesome family!

 

like i said… terrified.