15 Months

• When she sees a bird or a plane flying overhead, she yells, points, then covers her mouth with both hands.
• When she sees a car coming, she yells, points, and starts doing a crazy stomping dance.  Then she starts waving.  (Pretty much everyone waves back.)
• She can climb the stairs unassisted. When she gets to the landing, she stops, sits down, and claps for herself.  Then she finishes climbing the last four stairs.
• She can come down the stairs, mostly without falling to her doom.
• She refuses to wear shoes in the car.  She has trouble removing socks, though.  This requires a lot of howling until someone helps her get it off her heel.
• We moved her upstairs on Micah's birthday. I haven't finished putting everything back up on the walls, so she has a pinwheel mobile hanging over her crib temporarily. She'll try to blow at it to make the pinwheels spin.
• She can say ball, bubble (buhba), mama, dada, hi, and moon (mooh).
• She says "baba" for book and apple.
• She signs for "more" and "please."
• When she hears music, she starts dancing,  Last night she was groovin in her highchair at the Mexican restaurant.
• She loves books. Every morning as we're trying to get out the door, she follows us around with a book in her hand. When I walk into her room at the daycare, she immediately points to the books and starts signing "more please."
• She still desperately wants to squash a cat.  Any cat.
• She's becoming very attached to the pink Snoopy Jessica's mother bought for her at Easter.
• She spends the whole night wandering around her crib. I've never seen a baby scoot around so much in their sleep.
• She really likes wearing Micah's old shoes, so I haven't bought her a new pair. I like to think of them as her ass-kicking shoes.
• She can go down the slide by herself and stand up at the bottom (most of the time).
• She's a tough cookie. She isn't really bothered by things like falling face-first off the ottoman,  sliding off the picnic table she's climbing, or getting whacked in the chest by her brother's feet as he's coming down the slide.
• She hates having her diaper changed.
• She's finally cut all four eye teeth, but they seem to have stopping coming in again. She has all the rest.
• We had to buy a trash can with a lid after I caught her throwing toys in the trash. MULTIPLE TIMES. I can't help but wonder how many she chucked before I noticed.
• She has a temper.
• Oh my god, does she have a temper.
• And a little bit of a violent streak.
• But she is usually sweet and cheerful, so that kind of makes up for it.
• She's not at all what I expected, but she's actually pretty awesome.