Our sweet, sassy girl is 14 months old! She is really coming into her own and becoming quite independent. She is changing everyday! Below are a few highlights about her.
-Annie is full on "knee crawling" now. She's learning to book-it, too! She seems to enjoy being able to explore more now and is into the cabinets and toys like I knew she would be. She often talks and yells as she crawls, then she will come up on her knees to look around and talk some more and wave her hands around, then will be on her way to wherever her goal was.
-She has gotten FOUR teeth this month, and they have been doozies! They make her have all the classic symptoms-drooling, light fever, runny nose, and even loose diapers. She had a couple of rough days this past month-days where I thought she'd totally had a personality change, especially around the 4th of July-but it would always turn out to be another tooth, poor baby. I know they must hurt coming in. She's also started grinding her teeth, and it makes us cringe! I think she's just feeling things out, but still, I wish she wouldn't!
-She is so responsive to our questions. She always nods her head-usually yes, but sometimes no-even if she doesn't understand what we are asking.
-Some of her favorite toys currently are the tunnel and picnic basket she got for her first birthday. She also loves the magnets on the fridge. She likes Henry's trains and will have one in her hand as she crawls around, making a clunking noise:) She will sit up, try to put it on its wheels, and drive it back and forth on the ground. I don't even remember Henry doing that at her age! She still adores books and will sit and just look and look at them.
-Something else I've been noticing about her "play" is that she loves to put things away. She will put all of her play food in the basket, put all of the little soft animals in the little velcro ark we have, will put magnets in a ziplock bag, will put her blueberries (or whatever snack) in the cup holder of her highchair tray. She gets so happy and proud when she does this. I remember Henry dumping stuff out for forever, but putting it all away seemed to come way later. She seems to be doing this earlier than him, and the dumping out phase is not nearly as dominant as it was with him!
-She's learned the sign for drink (or milk-I'm not sure exactly which one it is). She is a much thirstier kid than her brother every was, so we were getting a lot of screaming at mealtime between bites. Finally I realized she was was begging for her sippy! SO, we taught the sign which has cut down on some demands!:) Often after she takes a drink she will say a big, "Ahhh!" in satisfaction.
-She loves Facetime and knows the ring. As soon as she hears it she starts squealing and "talking" (another new thing this month where she jabbers and jabbers and carries on a whole big conversation with us). During Face time, she will wave and say "hi!!", try to kiss the person on the other end of the phone, say and waves "bye bye!" at the end of the conversation. She certainly knows cousin Kaia (because she spent some time here in May), so she squeals and laughs when she sees that big cuz.
-She has really started loving swimming even more, if you can believe it! She will sit on the steps and splash, splash, splash! Then she will lunge forward for one of us to get her, but we let her go under the water first and she holds her breath and comes up ready to do it again! She also has swimming "posture" now and wants to be on her belly kicking her legs and splashing her arms. We both feel like if we would let her go, she could almost swim on her own it's that good! I just barely hold her chest with my hand and that is all she needs. She sits on the side and will put up her pointer finger and try to say "one, two, three, jump!" with us, then she falls into the water for us to catch her. She is also really good at relaxing on her back for a second, then she wants to play in that position and will kick and splash with her arms. She is definitely comfortable in the water.
-If Annie hears us whisper, she starts to do the same with her jibber jabbering and it is so, so cute.
-She loves to sit beside us up on the sofa. She acts like such a big girl. When we put her down she throws a fit and wants back up!
-She loves her babysitters Jasper and Lily. She knows them and goes to them! She has done so much better in nursery this month, and I am so thankful!!
-There's much, much more, but I hope that hits the highlights and helps us remember this sweet phase of being 14 months.We love you sweet Annie, more than you know!
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| Looking outside the window was much more interesting than Mommy's camera. |
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| This one is not from the same set, but I wanted to include it anyway because, well, she's technically in her pjs like the others, but it also shows her mop of hair that is constantly in her face and also her sweet morning smile. She's such a happy girl in the morning. |
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| Photo try #2...wet hair this time?! |
