Settling for Awesome: 15 months

Our big girl is 15 months! A few months ago I bought a research-based development book that's in a series I highly recommend. There is a book for every age, and the book for 1-year-olds is titled "Your One-Year-Old: Fun-Loving and Fussy." Those are the best adjectives for this age. One second she's cracking up at something and the next she's frustrated with the same thing. Any tantrums are short-lived because her attention span can't keep up with her emotions. We spend at least half of her waking hours outside. We need to stay busy to keep her happy so our days are full but fun. Errands take longer because she likes to check things out wherever we go.

I know I say this about every age, but this stage is really so fun. Her curiosity reminds me to literally stop and smell the flowers. Her strong emotions reminds me to live each moment fully and to let myself feel everything. Her sweetness and loving nature reminds me of the good we all have inside of us because of Jesus. Her sense of humor reminds me to laugh and see the fun in all circumstances.

She can say several words and is picking up syllables and can mimic when she's in the right mood. Her most frequent words are: dada, mama, dog dog, that, this, yes (or yeah), hi, cracker (crack-crack), noodles (nah-nahs), broccoli (ck-ck, or something like that), garden (gar-chk, or something similar), duck, and bath. Since she uses about 10 signs regularly, that's a total vocabulary of about 20. Just this morning she attempted to say baby, trash, and yellow. What a chatty girl! One glaring oversight for this age is "no!" She doesn't say it or shake her head no about anything. I know that's coming, but it's nice to have her response usually be "yes." Do you want to go have a snack? Yes! Would you like to go to Target? Yeah! Should we put your shoes on? Yes!

We love you, sweet girl!

Walking down the (not busy) street with some playgroup pals.