February 17 - Fifteen Months!

Baby Girl,
You are so much fun! So far every stage has been my favorite, and right now, this early toddler business, is awesome! Our biggest change, as a family, this month is that you're going to be a big sister. Syd, I think you're going to be such a sweet sister. Right now, you're really into babies (which thrills me!). Whenever we see a baby, even on TV, you get excited and smile and wave to the baby and say, "HI!" I'm praying that you'll continue to like babies this much until September when your sibling arrives.
- Sweet girl, you're still itty bitty, but you're growing! I retired most of your 6 and 6-9 month clothes now. Really, it's a wonder you're as small as you are because you can E-A-T! A few weeks ago, you ate one and a half slices of Papa John's pizza for dinner, and were still asking for more, and you can put away a whole Chic-Fil-A kids meal! I hope your metabolism stays high!!

- You got another tooth this week, for a total of five!
- You're becoming more and more talkative. I'm always impressed by how well you understand and follow commands. You've also learned a few more animal sounds recently, which is really cute. It's funny, you know a lot of random animals instead of what I think of as "normal" first sounds-- tiger, lion, elephant, monkey, and dog. You also learned this week that pirates say Aarrrrrrrgggghhh!

- For several months now, you've only had your paci in the car and the bed. We usually keep 3 or 4 in your bed, so that you can always find one. Most mornings, when we go to get you up, you've got one in your mouth and one in each hand. When we ask you, "Where does your paci go?", you usually spit the one out of your mouth first (back into the bed). Then, you'll stick the ones in your hands into your mouth for a few seconds before you drop them in the bed too. It cracks me up every time!

- We've been having to put you in time-out, but it seems to be effective. Our time-out spot is in the hallway. You can't distinguish yet between "you need to go to time-out" and "you're going to have to go to time-out if you keep it up", so when you hear the word you usually march your little self to the hall and have a seat. You also know that playing with the DVDs on the bookshelf and going up the stairs by yourself will land you in time out, and when you get caught doing either of those things, you go to time-out on your own without even being told.
- You love apple juice, dogs, blueberry pancakes, the Fairy Tea Party book, baloons, and playing outside.

And Mommy & Daddy love you BIG TIME, Sweet Pea!!

Love,   mommy