14 months

What's really sad is that I have misplaced my camera's memory card so I have no pictures to post. I really hope it is only misplaced, soon to be found, because I haven't uploaded any of them from Stella's birthday party. She had so much fun at the party and she was too cute! She did start running a fever right before the party started but she bounced back pretty quickly.

She will be 14 months on Christmas day. I am horrible and missed her 13 month post completely. I was working 7 days a week at the time so I have a good excuse! Now she is running and climbing on everything. She begs to jump on the bed but, thankfully, she hasn't figured out how to climb on it yet. She loves the bath tub and is always trying to climb into it. She has almost mastered climbing on the couch. Last weekend she was trying to climb a ladder (while I was standing on it) but she fell and has a horrible black eye. She fell on the baby sitter's steps and cut her forehead the week before. She threw a fit and banged her head on the driveway and has a bruise from that! I really do try to protect her little head. If you only knew all of the bruises and bumps I have prevented, I wouldn't seem like such a horrible mother!

She is still a fiesty little thing. She gets SO mad. I think what makes her the angriest is when we won't hand over our phone or when we won't give her the food she is currently demanding!!! She usually starts screaming then she turns and runs the opposite direction then abruptly turns back and charges with her head down. She's a mess. She charged me the other day and had her hand up ready to slap me in the face!! UH OH!! She also bit me recently when she was mad. Like I said, she's a mess. I don't know where she came from.

She is starting to understand so much. She follows simple directions like "put this in the trash," "take this to daddy." "Go find Bubba." "Let's go outside." "Let's take a bath!" She high tails it to the tub and the backdoor... everywhere else, she's really not interested! She is talking all of the time but I don't really know what she is saying except for "mama," "dada," and "bubba." She repeats things I say like ball, bye bye, hey, night night, baabaa. She is really getting interested in books lately. She likes the Priddy books with animals. She barks at the dog and baa's at the sheep. She makes a MMMmmm sound for the cow. She likes particular pages and gets mad if you try to turn to pages that are not her favorite.

Stella cracks up at Lennox even though he pushes her down 197 times each day. The poor girl can't stand up when he is around without getting tackled or tapped or toppled over. It's ridiculous. He gets in trouble. He just keeps doing it. Hard heads. It is so funny to hear her laughing at Lennox. She thinks he is so funny when he's doing silly things like throwing a stuffed animal in the air. He gets a kick out of it and cracks himself up too!

Stella's favorite things to do are go outside, take a bath, play in the spice cabinet, empty the clothes basket, put clothes on her head (Lennox used to put socks on his head but Stella likes any article of clothing), look at books, play with the hand manny erector set (which is weird for a 1 year old girl, i think), and she LOVES her babies. She kisses them and hugs them and drags them all over the house. She is very good at making a mess. She might even be better than Lennox at strowing and dragging things out.

She still has a bottle. I know. I need to get rid of it but she loves it. I took it away for a day or two and she was a complete mess. So, I gave it back! Maybe next month? Her hair is getting long and so much thicker and it's white... or light yellow. It is starting to flip up on the sides which is so stinking cute! She still poops in the tub about 85% of the time. I'm going to start putting her on the potty and see if I can get this girl potty trained!!! ha.