15 months
At 15 months, Rosie is a pro at walking and talking.
She is really expanding her vocabulary lately - she tries to imitate everything we say - her list of words now include:
Daddy, Mama, Nursie, Duckie, Doggie, Ball, Balloon, Book, Baby, Up, Down, Open, Elmo, Thank You, Uh-Oh, Nose, Mouth, Eye, Teeth, Belly Button (bupmn), Moo, Meow, Quack, Ladybug (ldrldrba), Hi (mostly said in a whisper), Shoe (shhhz), Diaper, Dance/Dancin’, Apple (appm), Egg, Cheese (zshhh), Chicken, (kackn), Pumpkin, and most recent is her use of the word “No”.
She loves to play ON and IN things, she is constantly climbing in her little toy bus,
and sitting on top of her toys,
and sometimes she will lie down on top of her toys too. She is constantly getting into kitchen cabinets and getting out bowls and cups and tupperware and fitting the smaller things into the bigger things. She also will take a spoon or fork and pretend stir things in a bowl or cup. She loves to play with pens, and will take the cap of the pen on and off over and over again, and she knows how to write on paper and thinks she is super clever when she does it.
She loves to dance and will stand up and say “dancin” and bounce up and down every time she hears music. She is getting close to singing too - she kind of hums and bounces along when I sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - and she says “up up” for the “up above the world so high” line.
She is also getting close to going forwards down the stairs, she has been practicing lately, and she can take a few steps holding onto the wall or the railings, and sometimes she sits down on the step and slides down the the next step on her butt. But usually she rolls over and continues to slide backwards, feet first, on her belly.
Joe has been turning her into a little sports fan. We took her to her first Tigers game a few weeks ago
and although they lost that game, we still had fun. We are hoping to watch the Tigers win the World Series this year!
Rosie has also been enjoying watching Michigan football with her daddy - though I don’t want her to learn the words she hears daddy use during the game. She shows her support by dressing the part every Saturday!
Luckily, they are a great team this year, so all is well in the Greenwald household - as long as Michigan keeps winning!
Lately, I have been letting Rosie watch Sesame Street almost every day - it comes on at 10am, and it is perfect timing so I can get dishes done, or check email, or pay bills, and keep her distracted and entertained -though it is fostering her great love for Elmo. She calls every puppet “Elmo”, and sometimes just mutters “Elmo” under her breath while playing with other toys.
Her cousin, Ella gave her a little Elmo finger puppet last year, and she likes to carry it around
and chew on it
She still loves to read, and will sit for hours and amuse herself.
Some of her favorite books are Goodnight Moon, Pajama Time, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Tumble Bumble, and anything with animals, like Mr. Brown can Moo, and a book with fuzzy dog ears and other animal parts to touch.
Her favorite friends to play with are Cousin Ari
Her and her friends M and Rocco.
She has 12 teeth in the process of coming in now (a couple molars still aren’t completely in) and has been chewing and eating a lot more, though her favorite foods are still eggs, turkey, chicken, bananas, and cauliflower. Plus, she loves bread, I can give her a crust of bread and she will have fun chewing on it for hours. She still nurses about 5-6 times a day - though some days it seems she just wants to snack and she takes a couple sips every hour. Her main nursing sessions are early morning, when I bring her in bed with us, and at night, as part of our bedtime routine.
We got our first snowfall of the season this week, and Rosie was fascinated by it.
We walked around on the back deck for a while, and she tried to pick some up - but was surprised by how cold it was! We only got about 2 inches - and it melted by the next day - but it is definitely colder now - Fall is here and winter is just around the corner.
We took her to the cider mill the other day and she had fun looking at the animals, and she climbed to the top of a big pile of hay with her daddy
and played in a pumpkin patch.
She still is mommy and daddy’s girl, she has separation anxiety whenever we leave her to go out by ourselves. She is fine and will play with Bubby and Aunt Pauline and her cousins once we leave, but she still doesn’t really like to be away from us.
We are not too sad about that - we don’t really lke to leave her anyway - how could you want to be away from this face?
I swear she gets cuter each and every day!
