16 months

My beautiful Matney,

It is so hard to believe you are already 16 months old (actually tomorrow but Momma has a crazy schedule tomorrow). You are changing so much each day that Momma and Daddy almost can't keep up! Since this mom of many hats often forgets things, I wanted to be able to look back and know what you were up to at this time in your life.

• In the past month you have become much more vocal and have many new words to share with everyone. You are like a parrot when it comes to repeating something that we say, but when we ask you to say "I love you" you just look at us with a very ornery look on your face.


• You are getting good at putting more than one word together and your best phrase by far every day is "bye bye Daddy" as we leave each morning with a cute little wave thrown in. You are also very good at saying "all gone" and "no more" in the right context.


• Your most recent trick in the last month was grabbing a diaper, opening it up and then laying down in the floor with you legs in the air; just waiting to be changed.


• You love your baby doll, Molly. Most every night you lug her around and want to wrap her up in her beebe (blankie) all night long.


• You do not let your beebe get too far out of sight and Momma will never make the mistake of forgetting it at school again on a Friday afternoon--that was a long weekend.


• You love to help me close the dishwasher and dryer when I am doing house work and if you don't get to help you sometimes get a temper.


• One of your new found loves is to reach up as far as you can in to Momma's makeup drawer and start dragging things out. (I am just waiting for the day there is lipstick all over my house)


• You have become quite the dare devil in the swimming pool often racing to the slide or attempting to jump in all by yourself. The first time you did this, I am pretty sure you took a few years off Daddy's life and mine but now we know to stay close to the edge and help you.


• You love your cousins and can say each of their names. And they love you! You are their sister cousin according to Grayson.


• At your 15th month appointment you were still in the 25th percentile for weight and height and your head was in the 75th percentile.

You have so many more qualities and things that we love about you but I cannot put all of them in to words or we would be here forever. You are the most precious gift I have ever been given and love each moment with you more and more.

All my love angel baby,

Momma