14 Month Update

Okay, so I know its a little late. Maybe a lot late since Madalyn is actually turning 15 months in about 10 days... but better late than never.


Our little cuddlebug weighs in at a whopping 19 pounds, 12 ounces. If you've been keeping track she has actually LOST weight since her first birthday! I guess thats what happens when you are a super busy baby and are always on the go go go! She has gotten longer though and is now 29 and 1/2 inches, which seems big to me but still makes her a little peanut.

Madalyn LOVES animals of any kind. Loves them. We were taking pictures of Zach and Carey for the engagement shoot and there was a stray cat at the botanical gardens. Madalyn kept chasing it yelling "hi kitty! hi kitty!" The only kitty she has ever been around is Jenna's cat Tebow, so she remembered from then! She always says "hi doggie" to other dogs, and when we go for walks she gets all excited to see the dogs in people's backyards. She didnt know quite what to make of Gigi's dogs- I think because all the dogs she knows are big and cats are small, so she didnt know what they were!

Her vocabulary is pretty big, though she hardly says any words clearly. I can understand her, and Shawn can also sometimes get what she is saying. Some words are a stretch, but you can kind of get the idea of what she is trying to say. Here are some words in her vocabulary:

MAMA (more like mmmmmmama, because we used to annnouniate the "mmm")

DADA (she calls herself Dada, when she sees herself in the mirror. I dont know why.)

DUCK- her official first word. She has one in the tub and she pointed at it and said "duck" when she was about 11 months old. She also called the penguins at SeaWorld "duck" (hey they are birds in water, it works!)

DOGGIE

ALLIE (Aowie)

AVA (AAAAAAaaaa)

THAT/THIS (As in what is that? She points and asks about everything.)

LIGHT- quite possibly her favorite word. She points out every light she sees, including the lights in the car. She is fascinated with overhead lights.

FISH- to our fish tank, and the fish in the bathtub, on the tiles, and in her room. It kind of sounds like "ish"

HI- to anything and everything

BYE BYE

HEY

UH OH- this kid has a lot of Uh Ohs! She says it whenever she drops something, and sometimes drops stuff on purpose to get to say it. Absolutely adorable.

NICE- probably because we tell her to "be nice" so much

MILK- what she calls her bottle (no ba ba here!) The other morning she pointed toa bottle and said "milk" because she wanted her morning bottle

PLEASE- she just said this one today when she wanted something that I had, I told her to say please and she said it twice (peeese)

MOMMY- she said this once, when Ava knocked her down she whimpered "mommy".

She also says OOOHHH OOOOHHH when she wants something

NOSE- she will point to a nose and say nose (nise)

EYE- kind of sounds like Ava (aaaaayyyyeeee) but she points at the eye and says it

MOUTH- (maaaaoooow) she points to the lips and says this

I am sure there are more.... I am just not able to think of them. But I will add them to the list as I think of them... But I have 20 words listed, not bad for 14 months!

Right now madalyn is laying in the dog crate with Ava and enjoying "quiet time". No, I did not put my daughter in a cage, she just loves laying in there and petting her doggie. This is what she does in place of naptime.

Madalyn just brought me a book to read her, so I guess I better wrap this up!