Miss H is 16 months old!

Harper you are SIXTEEN months old!

This month you weigh (guessing) almost 20 lbs.  You are now 29  1/2 inches long or so! You are wearing a size 3 diaper.  You are in 12 month clothes but some 12-18 month fit too.  Your little bottom is so skinny things fall right off.   

Monthly stats:

FOOD: Mommy's good little eater!! 

Sippy Cup: You still love your water....but recently you have been obsessed with water bottles.  Any time we go outside you have to have a small baby water bottle.  You will fuss and fuss for them.

Smiling: Such a happy little girl! This past month you have even started smiling at the camera when I say cheese!! I love it

Talking:  You say momma, dada, uh-oh, hi, more, mum mum (your favorite snack), hot, and papa.  Your new words this month are: bob bob, dog, and the sound for a cow, lion, lama, dog, cat, and elephant. You are trying to copy tons of words...soon you will be talking in sentences! 

Sign language:  You still can sign back to us dog, ball, water, milk, more, eat, all done, please, baby, banana, thank you, cat, hot, cheese, bread, play, gentle, elephant, bird, paci (you made your own sign for this one), music, cracker, bread, apple, help train, truck, bus, and  flower.  Your new signs this month are bubble, airplane, monkey, bug (you made up!), and music .   I love how you make your own signs so we can communicate. You amaze me daily at how quickly you pick things up! 

Obsessions:  Water bottles, airplane, and trains!  You can hear an airplane or train from miles away...then begin to look around for it!  Once you see the plane you want to watch as it flies by.  Trains are the same but we often can only hear them! That stress you out a little because you want to see it!

Observer:  You want things to be just so and can't stand it if they are off a little.  You also want all of your people to stay together.  Example if you, me, BB, and dad all go out and BB goes to get something you get all worried because she is not with us the whole time.  I love that you get worried and want us to stay together.  You still love to sit and watch others around you. 

WINSTON and BOB: The love is still there.  BOB BOB poor sweet Bob Bob..you have learned that you can "pick" her up.  At least you try to pick her up and I am almost 100% certain that Bob is not a fan.  She is going to learn to run from you soon.  Maybe you will also learn how to nicely pick her up.  Winston loves playing chase with you when you have his toy.  He can make you giggle and giggle it is so dang cute. 

Sleep: Sleeping in your new room is going great!  The first night you were out cold and daddy even went in to check on you.  You are finally a pretty sound sleeper.  I think now that we have a house where you don't hear every noise you can get some great rest.    

Your hands: You are mastering the spoon...well at least you think you are.  You now will only eat your yogurt on your own with a spoon.  I think about 50-75% of the yogurt makes it into your mouth, the rest looks great on your face, hands, and hair!  It does wonders for younger looking skin :-)  

Mouth:  Tooth count- 12!  MOLARS!!! All I can say is I HATE molars they were the worse teeth for you.  However you now have 2 sets on top and bottom really upping the tooth count this month. 

Your legs:  Walking, running, and jumping.  Those skinny little legs can do it all now!  You are also becoming a little climber!  I love your little legs but man do they have bruises all over them.  Exploring the world is hard work.

Bath time: You love bubbles in your tub.  Oh and yes you are still in the baby tub in the big tub.  Mommy is going to be brave next month and let you out into the big tub.  I am so glad you love your bath it makes ending our nights so fun.

Giggles:  I can not get enough of your little giggle.  You make everyone smile with that sweet sound!!

Dislikes: Not getting what you want!! Not getting a water bottle every time you ask for it.  Not getting to go outside 24/7. 

You had a few FIRST this month! 

Your FIRST NIGHT in your NEW HOME!!
Your first trip to the Amarillo Zoo!
Your THIRD MOVE!
Your first time at a jumpy (Jump and Jive)
Your first major head injury (hit your head on a door at PaPa's work)
Your first time to meet your cousin Kyndal
Your first pair of Crocs for the yard!!

Favorite toys this month are pretty much the same:

Books, Books, Books: You are loving your books this month

OUTSIDE, you are loving our new backyard

Every month I am amazed by you.  You are like a little sponge absorbing the world around you.  You make my world complete.  I love how you give great big hugs and kisses! Daddy loves it too!! We love you to the moon and back!

Your SECOND Year!

Your FIRST year!

Miss H's first hunt

We were so excited when Miss H's friend LK invited her out to the TCU Easter Egg hunt.  I have driven by this event before and it is pretty big.  Imagine a field covered with eggs...  TCU puts on a great hunt.  The front lawn is covered in eggs and divided into ages (which is super nice).

Of course the weather had to go from beautiful to freezing cold the day before the hunt.  Welcome to Texas right!  Non the less we just bundled up and headed out.  Miss H did a great job for her FIRST egg hunt ever.  I of course had big plans to have her practice at home, but got too busy.  We gave her a run down before the hunt...if you can imagine how that went with a 14 month old.  It was like this "H see the "balls" go pick them up and put them in your basket!  She of course kept signing and saying "ball"  Ha so much for that!  But in the end she did really good and got lots of "balls" or eggs as we know them.

We got a few pictures from the very chilly event! 

just the eggs in the 0-3 year old area

 Miss H not a fan of Super Frog...but it's okay with her Sooner Mommy!

Sweet LK and H before the hunt

Holding her back as they counted down to start the hunt

She was ready to go!

Look at her loot....pretty good for a first timer.

Miss H is 14 months old!!

Harper you are FOURTEEN months old!

This month you weigh (guessing) almost 18 lbs.  You are now 29  1/2 inches long! You are wearing a size 3 diaper.  You are finally moving into your 12 month clothes. Mommy is happy because soon the seasons will change! 

Monthly stats:

FOOD: Your teachers at MDO can't believe how you eat...actually no one can.  You love food and that is good because you are a skinny butt! You love bananas, eat one every morning! Recently you have been loving oranges too.  I am thankful you don't dislike much!

Sippy Cup: Water girl...love your water still.  Here and there you have been using a straw cup, but you always ask for your regular sippy after a few drinks from the straw.  I think you are girl who doesn't like her food and drinking routine changed :-) 

Smiling: Smiling is what you do best...you love to give out smiles to anyone.  You have recently started acting a little shy, but you still smile! Oh and the crinkly face you make now is hilarious! 

Talking:  You say momma, dada, uh-oh, and hi. This months new words are more and hot.  You are so funny about how you say them too.  You will only whisper hot while making the sign.  Your more may sound to others as a 'moh'  but it is the begins of more and you mean business when you say it too! 

Sign language:  You still can sign back to us dog, ball, water, milk, more, eat, all done, please, baby, banana, thank you, cat, hot, cheese, bread, play, gentle, elephant, bird, paci (you made your own sign for this one), and music.  Your new signs this month are more food related (imagine that) cracker, bread, apple, and help.  You have kind of transformed your milk sign though and it no longer is for milk but now you use it when you want yogurt.  I love how you make your own signs so we can communicate. Cracker is also kind of your own style...you should tap your elbow with your hand but instead you tap your wrist.  I guess that is close enough I mean we know what you want :-)  We will continue to work on signs while you continue to increase your vocabulary verbally too! 

Obsessions: (I decided to add this one this month...to replace awareness) BIRDS you are crazy obsessed with birds.  You love to watch them, feed them, and more.  You can sit in our front window and just watch the birds as they come and go from the feeder.  Of course you dog doesn't help out much with them...he scares them with his crazy barking.  I love that you are recognizing your world around you!

Observer:  I should change this also to my little GREATER! Walmart would love to hire you because you love to wave and say HI to everyone.  When we walk Winston at night you say HI and wave to all the things around us...there could be a person at the end of the block and you will sit and wave until they see you or wave back.  Sweet girl 

WINSTON and BOB: I love watching you with your pets.  Winston has become aware of your moves though and will go hide when he has had enough.  However you still love to find him.  Good thing you haven't figured out how to climb under the bed!  I love it best when you just sit beside him and read your books.  You also love to give them both drive by kisses...you just run over kiss their backs and move on.  

Sleep: You have been doing a great job sleeping...UNTIL, molars arrived in our world.  This month you have been teething like crazy.  The worse part is it keeps you up at night and makes you very sad. I hate it when you wake up screaming like crazy....poor thing.   

Your hands: You have fine tuned your hand skills.  You can pretty much do anything with these now.  But they have spent a lot of time IN your mouth lately...thanks to those dang teeth.  

Mouth:  Tooth count- 7 1/2...we added two top molars and 1/2 of the right upper tooth this month.  Poor thing these have been pretty bad coming in.  You have drooled and chewed on your hands more this month than ever.  Oh and PACI obsessed, I think it helps to chew on your paci. 

Your legs:  Those cute little legs don't stop...EVER! You still are trying to "jump" and run.  Your favorite thing to do is stomp your feet.  Since we have pier beam floors you can really hear them stomp.  You will be sad because in our new house I don't think you will hear it as well. 

Bath time:  Little stinker...I think you are finally trying to escape from your little tub.  Recently you have tried to stand in it so we may have to move on.  Mommy will be sad! But man do you love your baths.  You love to put your face down into the water now and try to blow bubbles.  It is probably the cutest thing ever! 

Giggles:  Your giggle makes my heart smile.  I don't know how anyone could not smile when they hear a sweet baby giggle.  You have begun laughing at Winston when he rolls around on the carpet and scratches his back.  Also when he plays ball with himself.  It is funny to see you react to funny situations. 

Dislikes: You dislike it when you don't get your way...let the little fits begin! However you can normally pull it together pretty quickly.  You dislike it when its time to change dirty diapers, you would rather play. Still dislike milk..grrr! 

You had a few FIRST this month! 

Your first non family baby sitter. Miss Meredith
You moved to your new BIG GIRL car seat...no more infant carrier for you!
Your first time to play on the playground at MDO, it was fun!
First time meeting lots of the Mudroch family at your great grandma's birthday party.
First BLIZZARD!!! 18 inches of snow in Amarillo we got stuck in Colorado

Favorite toys this month are pretty much the same:

Books, Books, Books: You are loving your books this month

Being outside FINALLY!

14 months old the months keep going faster and faster. I can't believe how you have grown this month.  You're learning things so quickly. I love how you are becoming a fun little person who plays, sings, dances and more.  You are such a sweetie. We are very luck and blessed to be your parents.   Love you to the moon and back!

Your SECOND Year!

Your FIRST year!