fifteen months

Poor Rebecca hasn't gotten much face time on the blog lately....life's been a lot about kindergarten lately.  But she still pretty much runs the show around here, since she still requires two naps a day, and life revolves around those (and now kindergarten bus times).

At fifteen months (tomorrow!) Rebecca is a complete joy and a complete stinker at the same time.  She's a little monkey, climbing up on everything climb-able (and even things that aren't!).  I don't remember Rachel climbing much, so this is new.  Once she gets on top of something she likes to stand on it (coffee table, couch, rocking chair, whatever....), so I do a lot of rescuing. 

She's still into everything she's not supposed to be into--loves touching papers, electronics, remotes, telephones, and the like.  Baby proofing is completely necessary around here because everything goes into her mouth.  Rachel's room is pretty much off limits to her (even though her main goal in life is to climb the stairs and go into that room!) because of all of the crayons and little, tiny playmobil and princess polly pocket toys in there.   But she LOVES Rachel's room and some of her happiest moments of the day are the few minutes that she sometimes gets to go in with Mommy.

She's developed an attachment to her soft, pink blanket (the one Rachel chose for her before she was born, which is just like her own purple blanket) and the 101 Dalmation stuffed animal that her aunt gave her for her birthday, and is sooooo excited to see them every time she goes to bed. 

Rebecca said her first sentence this week--she was telling Daddy goodbye as he left for work and she said, "Ba-ba, Da-da!"  (Bye, bye, Daddy!)  She doesn't string other words together yet, but she sure always has something to say!  She babbles a lot, and often loudly!  She likes to hear her own voice.  Other words she says:  Mama, aww (ball), up, hi, and probably some others I can't think of at the moment.

She currently loves shoes, cars, bikes, going outside, and Winnie the Pooh.  She has no interest in watching Winnie the Pooh (more than for about 30 seconds) but she loves the Winnie the Pooh stuffed animals and books we have.  She also recognizes Elmo, but again, only likes the stuffed animals.  She doesn't care a hoot about TV.  Rachel at this age loved her Baby Einstein videos or anything else we let her watch, but Rebecca loses interest after just a few seconds.  Of her actual toys (though she'd rather play with anything than her real toys), she mostly plays with books, which she chews on, play food, which she also chews on, and a shape sorter, though she's only just learning to put the shapes into the holes--mostly she takes the shapes out and puts them back in the bucket, over and over.

She wakes up between 5:30 and 6:30 AM (I won't get her up until 6:00, though), naps from 8:45ish-10ish, and again from 1ish-2:30ish, and goes to bed at 7 PM.  She loves to eat (always has!) and her favorites include bananas, cheerios, toast, apples, peas (yes, peas!), broccoli, turkey, strawberries, goldfish crackers, graham crackers, or really anything you put in front of her!  Actually, she doesn't seem to like eggs.

And that's my darling girl in a nutshell!