In Which Jeremy Skis!

And now a non-Laelia video...we love winter!!

15 Months and going, going, going....

Yep, Laelia basically never stops moving. She's very confident on her feet, and in the past few days have been experimenting with going backwards too. Today she backed into a stool in the kitchen and was completely shocked!

Her favorite thing to do is dress up; it's limited at this point in time because she can't really put clothes on by herself, but you will almost always find a trail of hats that she has been wearing on and off and on again. She even puts on two hats sometimes. Today she took one of Jeremy's baseball hats and put it on her head and started walking around with it on when it slipped down over her eyes. True to form, she didn't stop walking, but kept going, saying, "Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh," until I took it off for her. She also likes to carry things around; plastic buckets, bags, etc, and wear anything as a necklace; actual necklaces, random pieces of our clothing (anything that fits over her head), bags. I think she's all girl. Hopefully she's going to hold off on wanting make up for a LONG time!

Let's see...she's talking more and more everyday, and still is learning signs for words she can't say yet. She says, 'peas' for Please, 'Up,' 'yeshs' for yes, 'rice,' boh-key,' for broccoli, 'Ba,' for banana, 'baby,' and lots of other B-sounds with appropriate-ish vowel sounds (ball, book, balloon).

Laelia eats like food is going out of style. She LOVES chicken and hamburger, eggs, bananas, rice, broccoli, sweet potatoes, kiwi, oranges, avocado, and so on...you get the picture. She never seems to stop eating, and is finally growing a bit, although her weight hasn't changed much for a while. It's just that her rolls of fat are shrinking. Seriously, her leg rolls are wrinkly because of all the extra skin that used to go around all the fat!

Click here for some recent pictures and I'll post some videos soon.

In Which Laelia And Amelia Make Animal Sounds

I let Laelia watch Amelia's video of animal sounds and she started making them too, so I decided to video it...she doesn't know all the same sounds (no camel or donkey) and she gets distracted by pausing the video to finish strong with bear and fish, but it's pretty cute nonetheless.

In Which Laelia Bows

Laelia learned to bow watching my piano students practice for their upcoming recital. As they bowed, so would she. And now she gets a kick out of it when we clap for her!

In Which Laelia Keeps Busy

In Which Laelia Rides A Horse...A Rocking Horse, That Is.

Laelia rides her rocking horse from Maga. She's very tired in this video (can you tell by the dazed look??) but she loves it very much! Thanks, Maga!

In Which Laelia Runs Around In The Buff

Showing off her running skills and the fact that she escaped from the changing

room without many clothes on!