Sharing Tidbits . . .: 16 Months Old!

Giggling, smiling, chasing her Big Sister around (or being chased), playing fun little repetive games and gnawing on everything - that is what my baby girl has been up to this month. It is simply heart-warming to watch my little girl giggle like crazy over the silliest things. She loves being tickled, loves playing hide and seek, loves hearing her Big Sister laugh and adores playing outside even more. She will bring me her shoes as early as 8am and stand in front of the door trying to reach the handle on her tippy toes. She hasn't mastered jumping yet, but she will go up and down on her tip toes trying to reach things - so cute. Kelsey isn't saying or signing many new words but she gets her point across through her actions so that she isn't frustrated and neither are we. She now is 'communicating' by pointing and saying 'uuuhhhh'. She still says "where" so frequently and so clearly - we adore it. She has recently added a 'two hands up with open palms' action to go along with her "where" as if she is looking for something. If she is hungry - she goes to the cupboard and starts getting out cans. If she is thirsty, she attempts to reach the ice maker on the fridge. My favorite is when she is laying with me in bed in the mornign and she wants me to get up. She pulls the covers off me and then attempts to pull me up by tugging on my shoulders. So cute. When her teeth aren't hurting, Kelsey is the happy, smiley, Dora-loving toddler that I described above - about 85% of the time. Her top two molars are now completely in and she is working on the bottom two. Other than tremendous teeth pain, Kelsey has had a healthy month again of which we are very thankful. She even managed to avoid the stomach flu after Kaitlyn had a short bout with it. Kelsey still isn't sleeping through the night, but we are pretty used to her wakefulness so it isn't super frustrating anymore.

Still a good eater -her favorites are sausage, pizza, green beans and peaches.

Just chillin' (she spilled her sippy cup in the car so she is wearing half of the 'car outfit' - hence the mismatched attire!)

More stickers.

Kelsey loves to push the buttons on our recliner couch, especially while on the couch... which makes for a dangerous situation since she is still so top-heavy!

Her favorite spot - in front of the tv watching Dora!

Starting to slim right out like her sister!

Kelsey's first lawn mower ride - she despised it!

Loving the playset! Now if only I could get her to sit down before she steps on the slide.

Flying high thanks to Super Daddy!

Loving Little People and all Kaitlyn's 'big kid' toys.

Also a favorite toy - the aqua doodle marker. Yes, she is sucking on it - eww! She loves to draw all over her climbing blocks with it.

Kelsey LOVES to put her blankie over her face and then walk towards us. She runs right into things and just laughs. We have darted multiple times to save her from 'big owies' when she is 'hiding' from us.

Addicted to playing bubbles. Even has fun dipping her bubble wands in puddles of regular water.

Playing doll house

Kelsey is obsessed with the Dora candyland game. She often goes to Kaitlyn's closet and 'jumps' (goes up and down on her tip toes) with her hands out stretched reaching for this game. If i pick her up, she points right to it.

Loves the sprinkler; doesn't even mind getting splashed in the face. That is a good thing, since she has a very 'splashy' sister!

Deciding that its way more fun to be IN the sprinkler!

Kelsey grabs her shoes everyday about 830am, begging to go outside. On this day she wouldn't let go of them when I put her in her high chair to give her breakfast. Silly girl!

Here she is holding on dearly to a new bubble dish and bottle of bubbles. She pounded on the door unsuccessfully trying to get me to let her outside. I think it was raining out. Try to explain that to a toddler!