Lacey 15 Month Update

Lacey, Lacey, Lacey. Where do I start? I love this little girl so much. She's growing too fast and is just so cute. But onto the updates:

*Lacey is 15 months and is getting older but is not getting bigger. If anything she's thinning out because she's walking and running around. Her almost 15 month stats are:
2/15/12: Weight: 26.3 lbs (91%), Height: 32.5 inches (97%)

*She is still in size 4 huggies and 18 month clothes. She has been in these same sizes since she was 5 months old. The pants are now her length and the shirts fit better. I kinda miss the rolls :( but she has a few left on her legs.

*Lacey is no longer using a bottle. She's been off the morning bottle for awhile, but had still been enjoying her night bottle. When she was sick a few weeks ago we didn't give her milk (she didn't want any either) and we just never gave her another bottle. She's pretty good with transitions, except I'm nervous for when we take the binky away.

*She is talking up a storm lately. Some of it is randomness, but she does know the word for binky (dink), juice (juuuuce), cracker (craca), cookie..I know right (Coooooki), outside (ow-ide), moma, daddy, blanket (danky), book (dook), and my favorite Jesus (cheezus). She says the sounds of a dog, cow, horse, duck, cat, and can mimick a fish face. She recognizes where things are and goes up and points to what she wants. I like this communication. I know exactly what she wants.

*Nap time and Night time is AWESOME...knock on wood nothing changes. Saturday at nap and night time she pointed to her dinky, got her danky, and wanted to be picked up to be put in bed. I was like...really? Love it. She goes to bed around 8:00-8:30 and sleeps all night and wakes up at 7:00-7:30. She takes a nap from 12:30-3:00. I love that we now have a set schedule. I used to think moms were crazy to always had a dedicated nap time and that they couldn't do anything during it was dumb. Well, that's how it works. If I want her to be happy in the morning, afternoon, and night she needs her sleep. She's like her dad in the way that she goes to bed when she's tired. I'm so glad she didn't get my habit of fighting off the fact that I'm tired.

* Lacey absolutely loves Mickey Mouse club and Tangled. She knows the Mickey Mouse club characters and especially likes Donald and Daisy duck (then she'd say quak quak). She loves the music in Tangled and the horses (Maximus) is her favorite. She gets all giddy and shakes her arms when he comes on.

*She loves to read. Atleast and hour a day is dedicated to going through books, reading and pointing out animals/insects/etc. Today I was watching her read on her chair and she was rocking back and forth. I looked at the book and it was the 'I Love You Forever' book where the mom rocks her son back and forth. This little girl is a smart cookie.

*She has recently discover just how much she loves to color. True she mostly likes taking the crayons out of the bag and putting them back in but last week she started recognizing that she is actually drawing. Then yesterday, Kyle found the beautiful drawing she left in pen on both couches. Yay for micro-sued. May not be beautiful but it's childproof :)

*Lacey used to eat anything and everything. Now she's becoming more picky. She loves breakfast and usually eats 1/2 a banana, then a cup of yogurt, and cheerios or whatever cereal. Her snack consist of raisins, multi-grain crackers, and juuuuce. Lunch is a peanut butter and honey suitcase sandwhich with apple slices. Then a snack. Dinner is usually a fight unless we have Mac N Cheese or Spaghetti. I try to introduce everything we eat and she usually spits it out or won't touch it at all. She rarely eats vegetables and I've actually started buying the puree vegetables again just to get some in her food. I hope if I keep introducing things that she will begin to like more things. We shall see.

I love being able to stay at home and watch her grow up every second. She is such a good, chill little girl. We are so blessed to have her in our family.