After her first birthday, we decided to stop taking monthly photos of our girl. Mostly, it’s because she won’t sit still for a photo anymore! As this is sort of a family record blog, I will post every few months (quarterly) so we can make sure we have things written down for our own sake.
Beatrice, you are now 15 months old. You move all of the time. Most of the photos I take of you these days are when you are in your high chair because this is the only time you sit still. I wouldn’t change it for a minute! At 15 months old, you are not yet walking, but you like to stand when I say “ta da!” and you put your hands in the air and either shake them or clap. It’s adorable. You also say, “Yay Bea!” an awful lot. I think this might be due to the fact that we started celebrating each time you picked the easy way (not squirming) when we put you into your car seat by saying “yay Bea!” now you do it when you finish a meal, read a book, pretty much all the time. I’m not so secretly hoping you’ll be a cheerleader when you get older.
Tada!
You really enjoy being around other children. This week, we went to an indoor play time and when we walked in the door, you were so excited and happy, you started shaking and yelling, “Children! Momma! Children! Play? Play? Play!” You were shy at first when we got to the play area, but a kind older boy showed you some trains with smiles on them (from a Thomas the Train set) and it made you very happy. He was clearly a train expert and helped you play at the train table. Another little boy showed you some dinosaurs and let you play with a t-rex. One of my favorite parts of our experience was watching you with the trains. You found each of the green trains and collected them together in a little piece of the train track that had a bridge. Then you were upset when another child wanted to use those train pieces on the track! Oh, be still my little organizing heart!
You still love books and have gotten to the point where you fill in a word in the sentences of the book. You do the same thing for songs. This weekend, Daddy taught you Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and you sang star, are, high, sky and it just tickled you pink! It makes us smile too.
You wake up hungry! Sometimes, you have a little temper if we don’t have your breakfast right away. We’re starting to teach you about other people’s feelings and how yelling doesn’t make things cook faster. You’re such a compassionate little soul, we are careful to explain to you how your actions make others feel while still trying to keep you from being too upset. I think you’re starting to catch on, but I know this will be a life-long learning situation.
It has been rainy here, so we took a little trip to the store and purchased a couple new items: a puzzle and some special markers for you. You really enjoy coloring! Sometimes, you just want to take off the cap and put it back on and other times you will color for quite a long time. You like it when Momma or Daddy draw you ducks or Mickey Mouse or smiles. So far, your coloring has mostly just been an exercise in getting color to appear on white paper, but you have started saying the name of the item you’re drawing so we know it’s not long before we’re trying to figure out if you’ve drawn a snake or a robot!
Beatrice, you just get more fun each day! What a blessing it is to be your Momma and Daddy! We love you!
