14 months old

This is such a fun age. I'm loving every minute of it. She's becoming quite an independent girl with a big personality. Here are a few of the things she's up to these days:

• Her crawling days are over. She's on two feet all the time these days. Every day she gets more and more steady and is even speeding up. I'm getting quite a work out chasing after her.
• Speaking of chase, that is one of her favorite new games.
• She's saying a few more distinguishable words - JJ, ball, and papa (Grandpa, perhaps??).
• I swear she's going through a growth spurt. She suddenly seems much taller to me. We'll find out for sure next month, but she can now see out our front window without having to stretch as much.
• She's working on feeding herself with a spoon. She hasn't quite mastered scooping up the food on the spoon but is very good at taking the spoon from us and getting it into her mouth.
• She lets us know when she wants to be picked up by walking up to us with her arms up in the air.
• She can show you where her feet are when asked.
• She loves to play with her ball and is very good at pushing it back and forth with us.
• She gives wonderful hugs!
• Her favorite activies include unloading the diaper bag or Momma's purse, dropping JJ's toys through the spindles down the stairs, and cleaning out the kitchen and bathroom drawers.
• She loves to talk on the phone. She puts my phone up to her ear and says hi (ah). Unfortunately, she only likes to talk when it's flipped close, so conversations with actual people are pretty short.
• I think her molars are on the way. She's been drooling like crazy! Hopefully they pop through soon.

I haven't taken a whole lot of pictures lately, so I made up for it this afternoon. This pretty much captures a typical day at our house these days:

Turning into more of a little girl every day.


Loves to play with her shapes.



Keeping an eye on the neighborhood.



Our little tumbler.


JJ's pretty funny.

Just a little girl but such a huge blessing...