15 Months

After meeting my family for dinner, Mattilee held Addie Brown's hand on the way to the car. She giggled and squealed the entire walk. She loved holding her cousin's hand!

Helping Mommy bake. I love that there is a little bit of chocolate on her tummy. That is exactly why I took off her dress before getting started.

Yummy!

We spent a weekend at Liberty Day festivities in Columbiana with great friends and this is the only picture I have of the entire weekend. :(

At the lake, Jackson and Mattilee loved sitting in this big rocking chair. I love this sweet boy, and he is so great with Mattilee.

At Mattilee's 15 month checkup she was 31 inches and weighed 20lbs and 14 oz. She was in the 75% for height and the 25% for weight. She showed off for the doctor by signing some words to him and showing him where body parts were and animal sounds. We've had a wonderful month getting together with friends and visiting family but I regret to say that I haven't taken many pictures. I've got to get better about that.

Mattilee is almost 16 months now and learning new things everyday. It's such a joy to watch her develop and figure things out and how excited she gets about little things. I'm amazed at how much she understands, remembers and can do. She can tell you where anything is on her body. When asked where something is she usually wants to identify it on everyone else after she identifies her own. So if I ask her where her nose is, she touches hers and then makes her way to everyone in the room touching their nose. It's usually this same way with kisses; if she gives one person a kiss, she wants to then go around the room and give one to everybody. :) She can tell us what almost every animal says or she can do a motion to signify the animal. Like when asked about a giraffe, she touches her neck to say it has a long neck, or for a flamingo she stands on one leg. She's added a few new words to her vocabulary. She loves to sneak up to you and say "boo." She identifies everyone's booboos, she can say car, book, shoe, brush, hot, cold, cup, butterfly, etc. But honestly, she would rather point to something than say it. We have to ask her to actually say what she is pointing at otherwise she just grunts and points. Anything she likes she says "ooooh." Its mostly about pretty, girly things; she's such a girly girl. She can go get almost anything I ask her to. Last night I asked her to bring me the book Goodnight Moon and she brought it to me! She has tons of books so it's so cool that she is learning to differentiate things. She can identify and remembers so many people. In the car recently I told her that she was going to see friends Grayson and Hayes (she loves them both so much) and she squealed with excitement, and then squealed again when she saw them. She is so much fun and I truly love every day at home with her. I'm so thankful for this time.

We find out in less than two weeks if Mattilee will have a baby brother or a baby sister! We're so excited to find out and can't believe it is already time. This pregnancy has flown by! I guess because she keeps me so busy. :)