14 months old

I keep writing this blog later and later when she is almost into her 15th month :) oh well at least im trying to stay on top of it. Well Allison is into almost everything. She is walking very well and fast. Although we are definitely still toddling but she is truly such a cute age. She has found her belly button probably about a week ago though. She has really started comprehending things and if I tell her to bring me something she can usually do it (if she wants to). She has become obsessed with her lamb that we got her for her dedication. She takes it with her everywhere, all day long and sleeps with it too. Its pretty cute. Allison started her little school, aka Daycare at Kids R Kids this month. I have had a hard time with it mainly because I know she isnt used to it and there are so many kids. You feel like your just dropping her off all alone. I cried the first few times and may continue but she seems to like it. I can watch her all day long on the camera they have in the room so that helps. She only goes twice a week and then goes to Nicole still once a week. She loves Nicole and I love Nicole so I am not ready to part ways. Allison loves bath time, I recently went and got her some alphabet letters as she likes the ones on the fridge-which I need to buy those too. She is gotten very good at feeding herself and we are almost to the stage of having plates although I know she is tempted to still throw them at something or me. She has gotten pretty good with using utensils too. Our other huge milestone is trying to drop her second nap. WHICH I HAVE LOVED having her have two naps because it was the perfect amount of time for me to work some from the house and get things done twice in one day. I will say this transition with the naps has been difficult as she is so tired. So sometimes we still do two but since at Daycare and Nicoles she only takes one we are trying to follow suit. She will go down about 11-1 so not a ton of time like I was getting but that means she is exhausted at like 5. She has started having earlier bedtimes around 7-730 as she starts melting down after that. She loves to talk to herself and she is very big about pointing to everything she wants to do. She loves sitting by herself in chairs, and will often at times push me out of the way so she can sit somewhere by herself. If I even put my hand on the chair she gets mad. She is also very loving and at different times of the day will come walk/run to me with big open arms and big open mouth for a kiss. What a blessing. She always gives night night kisses to either Will or I depending on who is not putting her to sleep. She although hates for you to leave her in her crib when its time to take a nap or go night night but will only cry for about 30 seconds and then just plays in her crib until she falls asleep. Allison no longer does any bottles, but she was finished with those around 13 months, and she doesnt like to have any milk before bedtime. She loves raisins,grapes, watermelon, bananas, oranges, spaghetti, hot dogs, graham crackers, goldfish, chewy granola bars, yogurt,cheese but not macaroni and cheese, chicken nuggets from chick fil a.. she is a good eater. Everytime from daycare they report that she ate all her meals. She got a another ear infection last week. I am not sure if they are thinking tubes, I dont think they are but we are defnitely watching it and im curious as how it will be during winter considering that is when she will get more colds. Oh goodness. But I will say this is a fun time, she is so interactive still loves music. We are on the brinks of temper tantrums though which scares me because I dont want her to do that :) and I want to do the right thing so she wont do them again, but I know that wont happen, just wishful thinking. We get onto her right now for standing in her highchair, and bathtub. But now she is getting quite vocal to get out of things like carseats and buggies at the store. So the adventures will continue I know. But what a ride. I am going to start doing some new activities with her as I think she is ready and can really get into them, just got to find them.
On another note, natalie got married. It was absolutely gorgeous, and she looked amazing. Her and mother did such a good job. Everyone had a great time. Allie stayed with the Driskells, thank goodness as there wouldnt have been any time to do things with everyone else.
Things to Remember:
Words: dog, night night, banana, ball, momma, mom, da da, uh oh,
sitting in her own big girl chair
her new pink car from mama mel that she loves to hear the horn since it makes songs
her lamb
her love of stairs
playing peek a boo where she makes mommy find her
allie finding mommy's belly button and her own
allie starting to like books, pop up or touch books although wants to hold them and turn the pages herself, then is done with it after 10 seconds.
mommy trying to let allie watch tv for at least 5 minutes straight but no go at this time