13 Month Update (couple days late!)

Some of her new tricks:

• she "jumps": she crouches real low and "jumps" but her feet stay on the ground...she's tries so hard!! She thinks she's pretty hot stuff.
• she's a climber...even into drawers! She will pull out any drawer she can, empty out the contents and stand in it (see below!).
  

Some of her words:

• Dada...Mama is still hard to come by. I joke with Marcus that I'm not going to talk about him anymore while he's at work. It's all about getting her to say Mommy!!
  
• peese...peese (please). Usually she's pointing at something she wants badly or has her arms out to pick her up! Who can say no to a kid who says "peese"? :)
  
• "dog-dog". She absolutely LOVES dogs~I'm not sure where this came from b/c we don't own a dog...but it doesn't matter if they are tiny-tiny like Choco (her friend Sophie's dog) or huge like cousin Lexi's 200+ lb English mastiff...she wants to be up close to them. And if they slobber all over her? All the better!! :) I make it a point on our walks to go by our dog park in our neighborhood so that she can watch the doggies. It looks like we will have to be dog owners at some point.