15

Braelyn is now 15 month old and is embracing being a very busy toddler!  She is walking, or should I say running, all over the place and getting into EVERYTHING!!!  We have started closing all doors in the house, particularly bathroom doors to try to minimize catastrophes!  She is starting to mimic many of the things that she sees her big sister and her Mommy and Daddy doing.  She "rocks the baby", says "aaah" after taking a drink, and twirls and dances to any music she hears.  She loves to get a laugh.  The other day she hit her head and when Emerson and I said "ouch" and laughed, she thought it was great and continued to bump her head over and over to get the same reaction laughing hysterically every time it worked.  When Emerson and I moved on to talking about something else, she kept hitting her head harder and harder waiting for us to notice until the point she hit it hard enough to generate tears!  She has mastered stacking cups by size and she is doing much better with her shape sorter.  She loves being outside but definitely prefers playing in the front yard...she is still pretty nervous around Maggie!  At her well-check visit she got a good report.  We were a little concerned because we have been having trouble getting her to put on weight but he said that if she had not lost the 3 oz thanks to the stomach bug she recently had, she would be in the 25 percentile which is closer to her norm.  We do have to go see the pediactric opthamologist because her clogged tear duct still has not opened up on its own but he did not seem overly concerned.   She weighed 20 pounds 4 ounces(15%), 31 inches(70%), and her head was 45 1/2 centimeters(35%).

My little princess-in-training...she LOVES wearing her sister's necklaces!

She thinks she is REALLY big!

Wow!  I am so glad I am finally big enough to get up here!  This is great!

One of us had to be on either side of the fort because she moved so fast!