15 Months

I know I always say I can't believe how fast time flies, but it seriously amazes me. It seems like the days can be long, but the weeks fly by. Miss Avalynn is already 15 months, and we see more and more of her personality shine through every day! We are so ready to be in Texas for the summer and be able to go outside and do things with friends. I think she is getting a little cabin fever inside all day. She goes up to the door and signs "outside" all the time, poor thing just wants to go out and play!

According to our scale at home she weighs 20.5 lbs right now, she is still a petite little thing. She LOVES being around people. Whenever we are in public or a group of people she is in heaven. This little girl thrives on being around people, and she is such a social little girl. Tonight we went to Pizza Pie Cafe for dinner and while we waited for our table she would just walk up to people, bat her pretty little eyelashes and give them the biggest smile! She started to walk by the tables and just waved at everyone she passed. It probably doesn't help that people can't get enough of her, everyone always says how adorable she is, and I think she knows it!

Brennen and I are amazed everyday by how smart she is! She can tell you where most of her main body parts are, she says some words like mama, dada (although lately we are both dada), ball, please, shoes, apple, book and Jesus, but the thing I am blown away by is her ability to sign. She knows AND uses 35-40 different signs. Her communication skills are amazing! I will have to do a whole different post on signing because it truly is wonderful.

Some things she likes to do are:

-Look at pictures! We found some laminated gospel art pictures at DI and just put them with her books. She will often just pull those pictures out and look at them one by one carefully examining and taking the picture in. It's almost as if she has seen the people before because she just stares at them. She loves the ones of Christ with the children and says "Jesus, Jesus" over and over.

-Her favorite spots to make messes and get into things are my bathroom cabinets, my jewelry stand, and a cookie jar that I have Scentsy bars in.

-Play with her baby. I have never seen a little girl so young be so in love and enthralled with babies. When she sees her baby she will hold it, give it kisses, rock it, put it in it's car seat and carry her around. She loves real babies too. Whenever we see a baby she signs "baby" and will go over to the car seat to look at it, then she helps by rocking the car seat. The other night she went to nursery at a Relief Society thing, and when I went to pick her up she was having one of the YW wrap a baby in a blanket and then she just held the doll like a real baby and carried her around. The YW said that was the first thing she went to when she got there and didn't put it down the whole time. She is going to be quite the big sister! =)

I can't believe how big she is getting, but I love seeing her grow and develop everyday! Avalynn is such a joy to have in our house, and defiantly fills our home with love.