First of all, I am probably the one to blame for this, but Baby Girl has learned how to ask "Dat?" meaning "What's That?" All day, every day, she points to different things and asks "Dat?". Then I tell her: it's a sign, it's a butterfly, it's a light, it's a butterfly, it's a paper, it's a butterfly, it's a screw, it's a butterfly. It is cute, and I try to remind myself that repetition is how Baby Girl will learn but it is ALL DAY long. Everything she sees, even when she knows what it is, she has to ask me "Dat?". She points to things on every page in the books she reads... Dat? We went to the mall a couple days ago, and everything she saw in the windows, or the sky lights in the ceiling, or the tile floor .... Dat? Dat? Dat? Dat? Hopefully my patience doesn't run out before her questioning does! 

I took this picture yesterday afternoon. Baby Girl likes to take 'naps' with her stuffed animals. She never actually falls asleep, but she likes to pretend. She got all comfy on our couch and pulled her animals around her so she could watch a little Elmo. I put the blanket over them, and she was content to cuddle with her animals for a good 10 minutes. What a silly child. Of course, after the 10 minutes, she started jumping on the couch. While I was in the kitchen, I heard a loud thud on our living room floor. I go in to find Baby Girl - with her animals- on the floor. She had fallen off the couch. Ooops. She just looked up at me and said "Uh Oh." She didn't cry or anything. She actually wanted back up on the couch. What am I going to do with her?

I just had to share this cute picture of Baby Girl with pigtails. I've finally purchased some little elastics so I can put her hair in pigtails! She doesn't really like me to do it though. She's so cute with them! Her hair is really fine, so it doesn't stay in the pigtails very well.

I love how blue her eyes are in this picture! What a cutie!

I'm not sure where she learned it, but Baby Girl has started this phase of putting on her head - like a hat. She often covers her head with her blanket and loves to play peek-a-boo. She's starting covering her entire head with her blanket, then starts walking around - but she can't see where she's going because of her blanket. A couple weeks ago, she was playing with an empty ice cream bucket. She emptied all of the toys out of the bucket and put it on her head and started to walk around. She loves laundry day because she gets to play with the empty laundry baskets. Once again, they always go on her head and she starts to walk around. I took this short video of Baby Girl walking around with a laundry basket over her head. Except its so tall, it covers her whole body - not just her head. Where does she learn things like this?!

What a silly baby we have! Baby Girl got this scooter for her birthday several months ago. She loves playing with it. She still can't get on it by herself, so she needs help. She comes up to me and says her version of the word 'help' - but it sounds more like 'bap'. As she says that, she does the sign for 'help'. It's really cute. I thought that would be a more difficult sign for her to grasp the concept - but I showed it to her twice and she had it down. She asks for 'help' several times a day - all day long! It's really cute. So I help her sit on her little scooter. She likes to give her babies and stuffed animals a ride on her scooter. It's so cute. I help load the stuffed animal, and she goes backward a couple scoots (she hasn't figured out how to go forward). Then she's ready to give another baby or animal a ride on her scooter. She makes sure they all have a turn. It's so cute. Every day I think "When did she get so big?". Every day is a new adventure!

Our house has been in a little bit of disarray for the last couple weeks. We have started to remodel our kitchen. Nothing too major (yet). So far, we've painted our walls and cabinets. On Saturday, we put in a new counter top. I LOVE it! The next major project is a new floor - then we're done! We'll have to post pictures when it's all done. So, Saturday - while Morgan was hard at work replacing our counter top - our kitchen was a little bit of a disaster! We didn't have any water in our house, our old counter top was off, and we didn't have a kitchen sink. So - for lunch we ordered pizza. Baby Girl loved the pizza. She's had it before, but I've always cut up little pieces for her to eat. Finally, her four top teeth are getting big enough to help her bite food. So, she was able to eat pizza by the slice. She LOVED it. You can see how messy she is. She ended up eating 1 1/2 slices of pizza. What a silly girl. In the picture, you can see the green color that we painted our kitchen walls!

Here is yet another update on our little girl. She is already 16 months. I cannot believe how much personality our Baby Girl has. It's out of control sometimes! She is so big. She can reach door knobs and things off our kitchen counter. She has such a funny personality. She has started to shake her head 'no' if she's asked to do something she doesn't want to do. She throws tantrums on a daily basis. She runs away from us in stores (or church), and then laughs when we catch her. She has a great imagination. She always cooks us things in her kitchen and makes sure to feed it to her baby dolls. This picture was taken a couple days ago. We were switching the car seats from car to car, but brought it inside to be vacuumed out. Baby Girl thought it was the coolest thing ever! She loved to sit in it

Then this video was taken this morning. This is our morning ritual - after her morning nap, Baby Girl loves to jump on her bed. She gets all hyper and crazy in her crib. It's quite funny. So this is her jumping and running in her crib. It's a good thing she's caged up. Who knows what she'll do when she's in a regular bed.