14 Months Today

This girl has just taken off.  She is full-blown walking now. Of course, she still likes to hold our hands and pull us along at times.  Even though it felt like it would never end, and we even hired a mother's helper to deal with the finger-walking, it seemed like the 5 months we spent bent over wasn't that bad.  Don't get me wrong, it was BAD, but we've rebounded pretty quickly. 

Some of her favorite things:

• Sitting down to read books.  She loved to flip through them standing up.  We wondered when she'd start to sit with us and look at them.   And, now she does!
• She loves her baby doll stroller.  She found it the other day and loves to push it around.  At first, she couldn't steer at all, though after lots of help, she's learning to steer on her own.
• She loves playing in water.  In her bath, while washing her hands, and in puddles outside.  I almost let her play in a puddle last week, until I realized that we didn't have a change of clothes for her in the bag.

Cute things she did:

• Put the play phone up to her ear like she was talking on it.  We talk on the play phone. When I put my hand up to my ear and pretend to call her, she will answer!
• The Hollidges gifted Lily some slippers.  They were just sitting in the living room, though my mom hadn't seen them yet.  She was so excited about them, she opened them up and put them on the baby, then realized that they could have been bought for someone else.  LOL!  The baby, who hates socks, walked around all morning with them on.  When my mom took them off, she got so upset, she walked over to them, picked them up, and tried to put them back on.
• She started blowing kisses!  I blew her a kiss yesterday, she caught it, and put it in her mouth.  Then, she blew me a kiss!  MAH!
• She started singing herself to sleep.  When she's tired and laying in bed, she will sing herself some of the songs we sing together.  
• She is giving high fives!

Other things going on:

• She hit the developmental period ("wonder week") of principles about two weeks ago.  That means bad sleep and more fussy.  We have two more weeks to go in that, according to the Wonder Week app.  It always happens that the best night of sleep she has is going into a wonder week.