15 months!

Our littlest babe is 15 months old...hard to believe! She has turned into such a little person lately and it is such a fun age to watch and play with! We had her 15 month check up yesterday (it got postponed from last Friday due to the snow!) and it was funny b/c she was a lot more clingy to me and is starting to realize what going to do the doctor means....shots! She had to get 3 shots - one combined shot of the 3 vaccines she needed, H1N1 and seasonal flu. We hadn't gotten her the flu shots yet b/c she has been on and off sick for the past few months. I also got both of the flu shots while there and I have to admit, I felt like a little kid again waiting for the nurse to come back in with the shots - scary! Anyway, my little baby weighed in at 25 lbs 12 oz (90%), 31.5 inches tall (75-90%), and her head circumference was 19 inches (97%). What a big girl!

At 15 months, Rhodes loves to talk - she talks a lot in her own language, but she is dead serious when she does it - looks you straight in the eye and uses a lot of hand gestures, so you get the point. Her favorite real words are bye bye, bah bah (for Baxter and interchangeably used for baby), ball (she likes the "b" words), Mama, Dada, Papap (Pappy - our word for pacifier), No no (along with shaking her head as fast as she can), yay and she pretty much tries to copy every word we throw at her. We also think she says things like "I want that!" when she wants something or "I want out!"or "Get dowwwwn!" when she wants out of her high chair. She also loves to high pitch squeal, make a noise that sounds like "daguh daguh daguh" and blow raspberries and kisses. She is hysterical and knows it. She loves to get in trouble by sticking things in her mouth (like dog food, Ali's cup, anything & everything!) and has this silly mischievous grin when she does it. She also loves to stand on chairs, shake her bottom and dance, take baths, scribble & color, smile, laugh, eat, and run around and around and chase her sister. This girl does not move in slow motion - everywhere she goes - she runs!The girls play ALL the time and it is so fun to watch. Rhodes wants to do everything Ali does which sometimes drives Ali crazy but I love it - she also loves to give Ali hugs and kisses when she is sad. She is finally (probably as of this week) getting down to 1 nap a day and I am loving it! The nap is longer and it makes it much easier to get out and about (we are not homebodies!) without having to worry about a morning nap - although Rhodes is a big fan of car napping. She is our barrel of laughs and of course we love her more every day!

Anyway - Ryan got me a Flip video camera for Christmas and here is my first try at posting a video on here....we'll see if it works! It is from around when Rhodes turned 15 months (1/2/10) and, if you notice Ali in the background, we had just had an incident where Rhodes took off her diaper and had to go to the bathroom right after - diaperless. I will leave out the details - I am sure Rhodes will love that I put a bathtub video of her on the internet one day!!