14 months

This post is a few days late, so sorry about that!  But better late than never, right? I always feel like, each month, I won't have that much to write about next month.  As in, how much more can she really learn/do/say in just one month?  And every month I'm proven wrong by all the new amazing things she can do!  Like what, you ask?

She has gotten the hang of a few more signs.  She signs all done, more, help, please and eat.  She loves to wave to everyone that walks by, and sometimes, if she gets really excited, she waves with both hands.  I had to go back to her 13 month post to see what words she said last month and what new words she's discovered this month.  It goes something like this:
At 13 months: mama, dada, ball, bath, night night, again, more, dog, yum, banana, bubba
New at 14 months:  car, hi, bye, yeah, go, down, milk, book, cracker, shhh, up, down, poo poo, please (which really sounds like "pff"), and no
Her fave words (aside from mama and dada) are bubba and cracker.  She points at every baby, everywhere, and says bubba on repeat.  Same thing if she sees a cracker, a cracker box or cracker wrapper/package of any sort.

(You won't normally see her with a paci during the day, but she was having a particularly rough morning, so paci and the wiggles was the cure)

Still loves books, being chased, building/destroying towers, and being scared silly by her daddy.  Or anyone, really. She has 11 teeth (with two more about to break through), and it's a battle to really brush them.  She prefers to just chomp on the toothbrush and suck off all the toothpaste.  Although, buying a spin brush has really helped.  She had her first taste of macaroni and cheese this month, and she LOVES it.  She would eat that and life cereal for every meal, if she could.  She's not a huge fan of vegetables (read: she hates vegetables) but we can get her to eat them if they are mixed with fruit in one of those squeezable pouches.  Or sometimes if it's mixed in with mac and cheese.

She has re-fallen in love with bath time, and loves playing with these little animal squirt toys we bought her.  And drinking the water- she's obsessed with drinking the bath water.  She loves to dance to music.  She can dribble and kick a soccer ball, which makes her Stanford soccer playing parents oh so proud.  She still takes 2 naps a day, ranging from an hour and a half to two hours each.  She is learning more and more animal sounds, which is really fun to see!
At 13 months she knew: dog, lion, pig, sheep, monkey
New at 14 months: snake, cat, cow, whale, horse,

She loves to give kisses (even to her baby doll and stuffed animals), and she bites in protest when we tell her no or when she gets frustrated.  She uses everything as a phone, and she is still obsessed with iphones and ipads. She LOVES to sit on her own chair, and especially loves to get on and off all by herself.  We bought her a potty this month, and she is obsessed.  She wants to play with it and sit on it and carry it and put toys in it all. day. long.  Basically do everything but use it for its intended purpose, which is fine since I had no intention of actually potty training any time in the near future. 

Riley's "concentrating face."  Tongue out every time.

She weighs 21 pounds, 14 ounces (45th percentile), is 31 inches tall (85th percentile), and I can't remember the number, but her head circumference is in the 95th percentile! And she had to get FOUR shots at her well baby visit this month, and she was a champ.  She cried more having her head circumference measured than getting her shots.  Silly baby.  She's really into climbing lately, which makes me nervous because she's starting to attempt to climb out of her crib.  She's not really close to actually doing it, but I am SO not ready for her to be in a big girl bed so she just needs to chill out on the climbing front.

Happy 14 months to my little baby bug!