Abigail at 14 Months

 
Abby is now 14.5 months old and is much more like a toddler than a baby.  It’s quite sad!  But it’s also a lot of fun!

Sometimes she looks so grown up….

But sometimes she still looks like my baby.

Here are the signs she knows, along with how she verbally says some of them:

milk (me), eat/food, drink, sleep, diaper change, cat (ca-ca-ca), dog (dah-dah), bird (bee), fish, cracker (ca-cuh), please, bath, more (meh), all done, baby (buh-bee), hat (ha), ball (bah), car (cah) mom (mama or mah-mee), dad (dada), jacket, banana, leaf, bear (beh), and her versions of balloon (reaching up in the air and saying boowa), stinky/poopy (waving hand in front of her face) and lotion (wiping her hand around her mouth).  I think there are several others that I can’t recall at the moment.

Here are the words she says (what I can think of right now anyway):

thank-you (keh-kee), brother (bruh-buh or buh-buh), papa, socks on (sah-ah), Wubby…her binky…(wuh-buh), uh-oh (uh-ah), book (buh), bye (bah-bye), beep (bee), num-num, amen (ah-mee)…she has also started to fold her arms during prayers.

Recently, as Nat was reading her “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt” she chimed right in with “uh-ah" after the line, “we’re not scared”, just like in the book.  Adam and I read that book 2 weeks ago for Tot School and she must have heard it enough to remember the prose….or verse….or whatever technical term it is.

Every morning as I open her drawer to get her clothes I sing, “Oh what should we wear today, today, day today, day today….” and with the “day today” parts she says, “day day day” (just like Adam did at this age).

She loves to march around like a one-legged Nazi (you know, sticking just her right leg straight out) and dance by spinning in a circle or bopping up and down.

She currently only has 3 teeth but I swear the second top tooth, as well as what looks like her bottom canines, are coming soon.  Somehow she manages to eat just about everything.  When she wants to.  She sometimes flat out refuses to eat food I know she likes.  Sigh.

I just like this picture

This is pretty typical….fussing that she wants someone to read to her.
(I was trying to get a picture of her in my favorite dress before church…didn’t work out too well)

She loves to drive this part of a little train in circuits around the house.  Sometimes, like in this picture, she takes something for a ride.  This is her Sleepy Dog and, along with her Wubby, is her most favorite possession.

She likes to color!  Especially if she can sit at Adam’s little table.

And she loves to be anywhere her big brother is.
She is physically fearless and loves walking, running, climbing, and now sliding.
This is her new trick….she likes to reach under her legs and grab stuff.

But, she is still my sweet baby girl and I love her to pieces!

Just some fun with Daddy