13 and 14 months!

So, I'm way behind here!  Can you believe the girl is already 14 months old?! In the last 2 months, she has definitely gone from baby to toddler.  She is ALL.OVER.THE.PLACE and into everything.  She wasn't even walking at 12 months but is now walking very fast to wherever she "needs" to be.  She's also quite the climber and has been found up the slide in her brothers' room, on the couch, in the plants, in the fireplace, and even on the foosball/pool table.  We have to keep our eye on this one!

She now has 8 teeth, but those molars aren't far behind!  

For the most part, once we get her to sleep, she does very well.  The morning nap is short, 20-45 minutes most days, but that makes for a better afternoon nap, 2 hours most days.  Bedtime is at 7, but we usually cry for 20-30 minutes.  Troy and I have gotten into the bad habit of rocking her again but need to truly cry it out again soon.

She still eats like a champ and loves her milk.  She's still on the straw cup, but we have attempted other sippy cups too since the straws tend to leak.  She's still working on tilting the other cups to get the drink out.  I can't really say that she has a favorite food right now, other than whatever's on my plate.  I guess it tastes better when you're stealing it, even if it's the same thing that's on your plate!  She is not a big veggie eater.  We've had to do some rearranging to our cabinets lately because Poppy started helping herself to the crackers that were within reach.

Poppy is learning new things each day.  She is learning how to clean up and is sometimes better than her brothers.  Her interest in books is really picking up, and you will find her fighting for a spot on the couch during bedtime reading now. 

In some ways, she is such a girly girl!  She LOVES her shoes.  Actually all shoes and has been known to steal from her brothers (and strangers at Sea World).  She is also loving her bows and won't let us leave her room without picking one out.

One thing that we seem to be "behind" on is talking.  She saws Mama and dada occasionally but doesn't really have other words.  Well, she says "yes" sometimes and maybe "ball".  She babbles a lot and thinks she is talking, so I'm not too concerned.  All my boys were late talkers too; my theory is that it takes them awhile to make sense of the 2 different accents going on in our home.  We'll see what the doctor says next month.

She loves to sit in her brothers' chairs at the craft table.  She has her own set of color wonder markers now that she can get the lids off theirs.  She's not into coloring so much as she is into carrying the markers around and occasionally tasting them. 

 I take back what I said about no favorite food.  Her favorite food is hands down spagetti, especially the sauce.  We obviously needed a major scrub down after this meal!

 4th of July pigtails.  She doesn't really tolerate bows or hairdo's right now.  They generally only last a few minutes before it's all pulled out.

 This captures what she does a lot.  She loves to point!

 She stole this peach out of the fridge while I was getting something else.  Notice she's willing to hold it on her own now that it's stolen.

 The last successful pigtails.

 Our first of many (I'm sure) questionable wardrobe choices.  This girl LOVES shoes.  Several times a day she goes to her room and brings out shoes to put on.  She also loves to put her brothers' shoes on her hands if she can find them.  At Sea World last week, she tried to take another woman's shoes.  Gigi will be proud of this shoe-love and can't wait to take her shoe shopping!  Did I mention we wore this outfit to Chuck E. Cheese?

 A favorite pastime right now: the water table.  If the brothers are outside, she wants to be there too.  Luckily, I can usually contain her to this table on the porch if I need to be doing something inside.  Usually we take her clothes off, though, since she is always soaked by the end.

Can't wait to see what month 15 brings!