We really love the beginning of the year because we don't do a whole lot of traveling. While we do love to travel to see friends and family, we also love sticking around the house and enjoying the relaxation. Recently, we have been able to visit a home & builder's show and put in some shelving (my husband is AMAZING by the way!) in the basement. It has been nice to also just sit around the house and play with our new "toys" from Christmas, as a family.
Mellany is really starting to come into her own and she is just doing it so quickly. We just had her 15 month check-up (can you believe it?!) and she weighs in at a whopping 21 pounds and measures 31 1/4 inches long. (Which is 25% for weight and 78% for length.) She says multiple words (puppy, baby, daddy, mama, hi, bye-bye, nana, happy, daisy, moo....) and is walking so fast that she's darn near running. She has a total of 6 teeth and no longer drinks from the bottle. She does very well drinking from a sippy cup, but she refuses to drink milk from a sippy cup. Mellany has become quite the picky eater (wonder where she gets that?!?!) and won't even eat something if it doesn't look right. This can be quite frustrating at times for me, but hopefully it is temporary. She sleeps really great at night; falling asleep around 7 and sleeping till about 6 am. Her favorite friends are Mickey Mouse and Elmo and she still loves, loves, loves anything musical. She loves to dance, especially with daddy, and she's even started trying to climb. Sometimes, she likes to run around our kitchen island and just scream at the top of her longs and other times she would rather sit quietly and read a book. She loves putting her dirty clothes in the laundry basket and loves her bath time with daddy. She can follow simple commands very well (when she chooses to of course) for things like putting away her toys or coming to sit down or even "Where's Mickey? Let's go find him". It is amazing to watch her make connections with things in life and start putting it all together. I am constantly baffled by what she learns and how quickly she learns it. Often times, I don't give her enough credit. Raising a child and having a family is truly the best thing in life!
In the next couple of weekends we are hoping to get a new truck and finish off the basement shelving. We will be getting together with some of my MOPS mamas and spouses and I cannot WAIT to attend one of my best friend's baby shower.
Hope you are having a great week! :-)
Big girl bath....with bubbles even!
She loves the pig that her cousin Kaylee gave her at Christmas
Playing with the balls at Ballocity
Snuggling with her baby
One of her new "fun" things to do is dump things all over the floor. This time it was her craisins...(it was a mess for sure)
Helping mama vaccuum
...she didn't really "help" for long...
She wasn't sure what to think of the sunglassess
"cleaning" the door....she went into the bathroom and got the washrag to do it, all by herself
Playing "peek-a-boo"
It is kind of blurry, but she was laying down on the floor and Bo was right behind her watching her every move, as he always does.
One of her favorite places to play
Waiting in the waiting room at the dr office...having a snack with Mickey
