14 Months

Our little Bean, at 14 months, is an athlete, a librarian, a grocery clerk, a musician, a babysitter, and a gardener. (In other words, she likes to bounce and roll the soccer ball; play with her books and pull them off the shelves; help mama pack and unpack the groceries; play the tambourine and xylophone; kiss and hug and throw her baby doll; and rip off the lettuce leaves in the raised garden beds).

She likes: waving; blowing kisses; signing "more", "love", and "all done"; giving high fives; doing "so big" as in the photo above; to tell us when she heard the noises of helicopters, planes orbarking dogs; playing outside; neked bear crawling; cruising and walking a few steps with a parental hand; having Grammy with her 3 days per week; dancing; being a sack of potatoes; "washy washy;" climbing the stairs; opening and closing cabinets and drawers.

What I like: sleeping through the night; not pumping but being back at work; Beano cuddles while nursing; the sound of her asking for "mama" when she wakes up in the morning.

Her dislikes: drinking enough water; the sound of her daddy's new saw; miniature wiener dogs (sorry Kinny); being ignored; avocado; anything she doesn't want at the moment; scraping her bare feet or knees along the concrete while crawling.

And mine: whining; being pinched hard on the arm by my nursing child; sick/teething babies :(

She says (in her baby speech): mama, daddy/baby, banana, hi/hot, dog/duck/pig, papa, up/pear, "muh" for Max/worm/vacuum, woof woof, "mmmm" for food.

New this month: she was quick to warm to both uncles; she was either sick with some sort of stomach bug or the baby Advil did not settle well; she stopped sleeping through the night and then started again; grew her 4th tooth on the bottom; picky eating; pinching me - hard - while nursing; roughly identifying body parts from "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes."