16 Months!

To my beautiful girl on your sixteenth month of life,

I know I say this everytime I write about you but it is true, you have changed so much over the past month.  Your vocabulary in both vocal and sign language is just amazing.  You are able to put two words together in speech and in sign, it is absolutely adorable.  Your favorite sign off course is eat more because honestly you love to eat.  The good thing about your love of food is that you try everything but don't eat all of everything.  You also speak when you sign which is also adorable.  You are amazed at planes flying over our house, as we live kind of close to the airport they are fairly low and you point at them and have started to sign "more".  I know that you enjoyed your plane ride and hopefully in the near future you will be able to enjoy another.  I made a list a few days ago of the words that you were able to say, but left out some of the ones you use frequently.  Sometimes momma has a hard time remember such simple things, daddy is going to have to look over the list and help me out. 
You are momma's loving the outside girl, it is your favorite place to be.  You love to run while your outside and sometimes that running along with falling on the sidewalks equals boo boos.  Your knees currently look awful because you took two big falls this weekend.  Sunday morning you woke us up pointing at your knee and going "boo boo."  You are so silly!  When you fall you only cry for a second and then you are running off again with one or more of us chasing you.  Everytime dadda hears you crying he comes running.  Each afternoon we go for a walk or a "galk" as you say and if we mention the word "go" you head toward the door or grab the keys.  It's just so unbelievable the things that you understand and are able to do. 
In the past two weeks we have went bottle free, you get your milk in a sippy cup now - your such a big girl! As of last week momma has also stopped pumping, it is sad in a lot of ways but you are still getting momma's milk in the mornings and in the evenings.  Even though we never used a lot of bottles it is still strange to see them all put up and to see the pump packed away and ready to go to the basement. 
We bought you a booster seat and a potty a few weeks ago.  I am so glad that you like sitting in the booster, now I don't have to worry about your climbing out of your high chair and falling.  At restaurants we still have to worry about that as you can wiggle yourself free of the buckles.  Momma is looking forward so much to the next few months to see how much you grow and how much you learn.  We love you so much!

--MOMMA