A year and a half...

Rachel here. I CAN NOT believe my little nugget is a year and a half old today! Reese seems to be changing more and more everyday. She's got quite the personality. Throwing herself on the floor quite dramatically seems to be one of her favorite past times these days. Sometimes it's to throw a mini tantrum, and sometimes it's just to do it. She's getting to be far too heavy for me to bend over and pick up, so I tend to tell her she looks ridiculous and she needs to get up off of the floor. This morning at Toys 'R Us was where she chose to get some practice in. It was FABULOUS... sense the sarcasm? We also like to cry when we leave the teeter totter at the library, leaving the slide at the playground, and now when we see toys at the store that Bryan and I won't let her stop to play with. I'm sensing a long hot summer in the backyard in the coming months where we can throw tantrums in the privacy of our own world. :)

We don't have to go back to the pediatrician until she's about 20 months, so we're unsure of her weight/height, but rest assured she's still a fantastic eater. She's eating a huge variety of things... just not much of it. She's far more interested in running around than stopping for a bite to eat. We've also FINALLY moved to 'hard nippled' sippy cups. It took forever to get her off of those Nuby's. Half of the time she would just sit there and chew on it as opposed to actually drinking out of it. She's still working on self feeding with utensils. Once she gets the food on the spoon, she flips it over to get it to her mouth... this of course causes a huge mess. She's learned to put the food on the spoon, and then pick it up out of the spoon with her fingers... then in to her mouth. :) We have most of our teeth now, so eating has turned into a nibble fest. She will take the already smallest piece of food and nibble it to oblivion.

The potty hasn't gone anywhere as of lately. She loves to sit on it, but using it is a different story. She went up to it before her bath one night and said potty? I told her that was in fact her potty, took off her clothes and diaper... she promptly peed on me. Was she trying to send me a message? We've since picked up a couple of books from the library to get us started on training.

Language is starting to get pretty funny. She rambles on and on, and then all of the sudden you'll understand one random word. We've added the following to the vocabulary: Ears, Hair, Belly, Teeth (all of which she can also identify on her body along with her feet and knees), Zoom, Car, Milk, Ball, Ice cream, Color, Phone, Potty, Di (blankie), Good girl, Sairs (downstairs), Run run run, Rock rock rock, Bear, Bed, Sit, Baby, Train, Yo yo (yogurt) and Kiki (cookie). She's also able to say some names of the characters on a couple of her favorite shows: Ernie, Beebir (Big Bird), Elmo, Yo yo (Yo Gabba Gabba), and Bert. There are probably a few more that I'm not thinking of, but that brings her grand total to a little over 60ish.

We think she's starting to understand this whole baby thing. We're hoping to get some cute pictures of her with my belly in the coming months. She's taken to her baby (that Nana got her) a lot recently. If you ask her where her baby is, she runs right to it. She loves to feed it a bottle... granted she loves to put the bottle in her little eyes half the times, but she's learning. If you ask her where Mommy's baby is, she points right to my belly... lifts my shirt... and plays with my belly button. She's been such a little helper trying to get things ready too. It's funny because she's totally into all of the baby's toys, clothes, gadgets... you name it she wants to play with it. Her baby has been hanging out in the baby swing, and we put her into the Bumbo yesterday... I think she actually fits in it much better now than she did when she was a little chubbo. :)

She'll soon be moving into her big girl room. The walls are finished, her bed is set up along with her quilt rack, and most of the pictures have been hung. Bryan has been painting the new toy box Grandaddy made her, and we'll be working on painting a few other pieces of furniture... there are a few projects I'm having my hired help Amy D. help with next week... then she'll be all set! Here is a little sneak peak of what's to come!