16 months old

Nora is 16 months old now and I can hardly believe it. We have been having so much fun with her lately. She had a virus last weekend, but this weekend she has been in the best mood! I have to say I love this age. She is interacting with us more and more. I got out my camera this afternoon and captured some of her today. She got really inquisitive and this first pic she was in my face. I really like it because it really shows off her baby blue eyes! I wish her little fingers wouldn't have been on the lens though!


She loves clapping and running and singing and marching. She kept marching across the living room today and cracking me up. She has been playing peek a boo with Staley too, which is hysterical. She will run at him and turn around and run out of the room and he will run after her like "where did she go?" and she just laughs and thinks it is soooo funny. The things that make them laugh.




She has also figured out that if she uses her little stool that she can climb on the couch all by herself. This has been a major achievement. I am just waiting for her to figure out that she can use it to climb on other things as well, but I am hoping that is not figured out for a while! She is just so proud of herself once she gets onto the couch. She is also talking a lot more. She officially says ma-ma and dada without any problems. She will even say it if I ask her too. It is the best when I here her yell Ma-ma! out when I leave the room. I will probably curse myself later, but I love it right now. I think she likes to say it because I answer her back too.



Her hair is getting long and she has a mouthful of teeth too! We started to brush her teeth at night and that is a job. At first it wasn't so bad, but now she wants to do it herself and just sucks on the toothbrush. At least we are trying to teach good hygeine.





Nora and I are headed to Chicago next weekend on the bus all by ourselves! I am going to see my favorite bands, Dave Matthews Band, with a friend of mine and I couldn't come to Chicago without Nora. So it should be an interesting trip! Keep your fingers crossed for us that it goes okay. Hope everyone is doing well!