13 Months

A few days late but here are some highlights of Eloise at 13 months!

• Still loves to dance and her record player. We listen to Michael Jackson often!
• Understanding more and more verbal language and communicates her wants to us
• Can follow simple directions like "go find your shoes", "let's go down/up stairs, " can I have that", etc.
• Can ignore simple directions like "sit down in your high chair", "don't eat that dirt", "stop spitting out your water/milk" and "leave Walter alone when she is growling at you"
• Has learned how to shut Walter in her kennel
• Climbs on everything including trying to climb up her high chair the past few days
• Loves walking to our neighborhood park and going down the slides by herself
• Eating raspberries off her fingers
• Playing outside, even in the heat and humidity
• Building with her blocks and Legos and not just knocking down what we build
• Tickling Mama and Daddy
• Giving kisses
• Skipping her afternoon nap so we are working on the transition to one nap
• Her fifth tooth broke through a few days ago with the sixth one not too far off
• Helping in the kitchen, she loves to stand on the stool and watch what I'm doing in the kitchen and gets frustrated when she can't be in there when I have the oven open or something hot on the stove
• Reading her books, especially peek a boo books
• Swimming...we even got to take in the new Goodhue pool before Great-Granny's birthday
• Saying "no no", "mama", "dada" "da" (dog), "nana" (banana)