15 Months

Vivian is now 15 months! She is full of milestones. Here's the breakdown...

~ We've been practicing throwing. We use playtime with Dyno to help us. I showed Vivian how to count to three and then throw Dyno's ball. She caught on rather quickly. Although she is not correctly saying 'one, two, three, throw', you can tell that's what she is trying to say by the rhythm and the inflection of the vowel sounds.

~ We live on the second floor of an apartment and we also have a couple of steps inside so Vivian gets lots of practice going up and down. She recently got brave enough to go down the couple inside with no hands. I, on the other hand, am not comfortable with her doing it on the big flight outside.

~ With her new found lack of fear of heights she has also figured out how to climb onto the desk when I am working at it. She just can't stay away.

~ We got Vivian a bunch of chunky puzzles for her birthday and she loves them. She is really quite good at matching the shapes and animals to their correct spot.

~ Without a doubt we have a reader on our hands. She loves to read and to be read to.It's the one activity she can focus on for long periods of time (15 minutes).

~ With all the puzzle practice and books we read she has learned a new array of words. She is able to recognize animals, shapes, colors and every day items. Every once in a while she take a shot at trying to say one or make the sound of an animal. She likes to pretend to be an elephant.

~ Derrick and Vivian have discovered Sesame Street songs on YouTube. The ones that feature real musicians and the characters. This is one of their favorites.
 

~ This is probably the cutest milestone. Vivian has learned how to blow her nose. It took a lot of modeling of fake blowing my nose and a lot of wasted tissues.

~ Words of the month are cheese, leaves, please, up, help and eggs. She actually says 'up please' but it sounds like 'pu pee'. Once she got the hang of the long e sound she quickly began to mimic other long e words like, cheese, leaves, trees. 'Help' usually sounds like 'up' and 'eggs' sounds like 'kgs'. No obvious words yet. If you just walked in on a conversation you would probably not know what she was saying. But nonetheless, she is practicing very hard.

~ Thanks to bath time she now knows where her belly is. Thanks to her poking at our face she knows where all of her facial features are. Thanks to putting her shoes and socks on to go outside she knows where her feet are.

~ Big milestone alert. Vivian has mastered, though not always very gracefully, feeding herself with a fork.

So like I said, she has been a busy girl learning how the World works around her and how she fits into the World. I am so thankful I get to be home with her to have these experiences with her.