15 Months Old

15 months and three days, to be precise. She's running (which is hilarious to watch, except when, as today, she was running downhill on the sidewalk trying to keep up with Henry - that was just scary as I kept thinking she was going to fall flat on her face at any moment), she's climbing on everything, she's gotten all four first molars and one of her canine teeth is in (I'm sure the others will be following shortly), she's saying more words every day and has even said her first sentence! Last week at the mall she said "Gigi, where are you?" and now she says "where are you?" all the time - when she's looking for Wilbur, looking for Henry at school, even looking for particular objects around the house. I was looking for her shoe the other day and said "we need to find your shoe" and she said "where are you?"  She can follow two part directions (e.g. get that book, take it to Henry), she uses a fork extremely well and is fairly competent with a spoon. She has just recently gotten very interested in books - she loves, loves, loves to have books read to her but also likes to go in Henry's room and pull books off his shelf and look through them by herself.

She's very mischievous and gets herself into lots of "trouble" (as evidenced by the Cheerios picture above). We have to keep most doors in the house closed as she loves to get into pretty much anything she's not supposed to - her favorites are the dog's food and water and the toilet (yuck). She can do the hand motions for "I'm a little teapot," "head, shoulders, knees and toes," "Patty-cake" and "Itsy-bitsy spider."  She still loves her dolls and stuffed animals. But most of all what she really loves the best is being with her big brother.

I promised Mom I would try and list all the words she is saying so here goes: hi, bye, Mama, Daddy, dog, woof, bird, tweet, shoe, boot, tree, hat, drink, no, meow, see, this, ball, doll, belly, please, where are you, ... oh boy, I know I am missing some - I'll try to add to the list as I remember them.