Jennings Happenings: Abbie at 15 months

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Abbie at 15 months

The thing about being behind in blogging is that I'm also behind in recording milestones for my children! I've caught up our summer trips and events but haven't done a post just about the kids' development since birthdays in the spring. SO here is a peek at Abbie at (or around) 15 months.

She says Hi, Bye, Daddy, Mama, Please, Uh Oh, This, That, and makes about 15 animal sounds but other than that she does most of her communicating through pointing and shaking her head yes or no. She mumbles all the time, sings, speaks jibberish, screams, cries and yells so she is anything but silent! She comprehends most everything we say. "Go get your shoes" "get Jackson's jammies" "where is your nose, eyes, etc?" Jackson has some Jake and the Neverland Pirate matching cards and if I lay out four on a table, she can identify them all correctly (ex. ship, mermaid, princess, pirate, sword).

She still loves animals and gets so excited when we see a dog outside, a squirrel in a tree, a duck in a pond or even a picture of a fish on a box of goldfish. She'll immediately identify the animal by making its sound. Her favorite animals are dogs, fish, elephants, giraffes and dinosaurs.

The girl who used to out-eat Jackson and hardly refuse any food has now become more selective. She is more of a dairy girl loving cheese and yogurts and is more picky about fruits. She'll normally eat all meats ok and I try to sneak in veggies when I can. She loves pasta, any and all desserts, yogurt melts and pirate booty - she loves drinking milk and orange juice best but always loves stealing sips of whatever Jackson has in his sippy cups.

She started climbing down the stairs around 15 months after a lot of times of refusing to try. I knew she could do it for months now and finally did so. She is really a cautious girl and hardly ever falls down and only has only gotten a few bruises or cuts ever.

She's got teeth! At age 1 she just had her two bottom teeth and then all of a sudden they all came in! At 15 months she had 8 teeth, 6 on top (2 molars) and 2 on bottom. We love our little gap toothed baby grins!

She is starting to become a sassy little toddler instead of our sweet little baby. She wants what she wants and has got a scream like you've never heard if she doesn't get it. I guess we did hear that scream in the middle of the night when she was still nursing... But now she wants whatever Jackson has. She has a few of her own toys that she clings to with her life, but also loves playing with Jackson's trains, dinosaurs and pirate toys. Jackson has gotten very patient with her but we are definitly still working on sharing. I have started buying or giving the kids 2 of everything to make things easier.

She still loves books and spends more time playing with books than toys at this point.

She still loves Jackson and loves to hold his hand and give him hugs and kisses. She wants to be big like him, doing all the things that he can do.

She still is such a sweet little girl who wants me to hold her, lays her head on my shoulder and pats or rubs my back. She's got the cutest little wave and blows kisses to everything she says bye to. She gives the best kisses and completly melts her daddy.

She is normally taking one nap a day, right after lunch. And goes to sleep around 8 pm and wakes up around 7:30 am. She sleeps through the night and only occasionally wakes up just needing a little pat on the back or snuggle before going right back to sleep.

She is different from Jackson is so many ways at this stage. She still prefers to be held most of the time (when we're not at home) while he was always exploring and getting into things. She is much more particular about things he didn't care about. She is just more.... girly :)