Maya 15 months

Maya turned 15 months in July and I never posted anything about it!  Call it summer laziness!  She had a nice and healthy check-up.  She was 32" tall and 21 lbs 1 oz.  She's still high in the percentiles for height and low for weight.

                                 

Maya started walking in June and loves this newfound ability.  She loves to walk up the street in our neighborhood and wave at her friends' doors.

She now has 10 teeth and is working on her bottom molars!

Her favorite things are still her "dolly" and her Cabbage Patch Cutie- "Moo Baby" (a doll dressed up as a cow).  She also likes throwing balls that go with her toys through the baby gate down the stairs.  I figure she's experimenting with gravity right?... She also started LOVING her bath and the pool after returning from the shore (where she detested all things water related).  She tries to demand a bath a few times a day by saying and signing "bath" but she just gets one bath a day before bedtime.

One of our neighbors kindly gave Maya this stroller.  She got busy pushing "Dolly" & "Moo Baby" around right away!

                                   

She started eating really well- even her veggies- but I'm starting to see a bit of a regression in that.

The biggest change is that Maya started to transition into daycare.  I wish I could report that it's been an easy experience, but it hasn't been.  Maya has always been clingy and she knows as soon as we arrive that it means I'm leaving her there.  She cries and cries and clings to me like a tree frog pointing to me announcing to everyone that I am her "Momma."  It's really quite the scene.  Fortunately, last time I picked her up they said she did great and only cried a little bit.  She stayed the whole day that time so I think it gave her time to really settle in. She naps great at daycare but won't really eat yet for them.  It'll come- she won't starve herself!  She's made some neat crafts there and used a balance beam.  It seems like it's a lot of fun!

Her words:

• Momma
• Dadda
• Doggy
• Bath
• Up
• More
• Bird
• Cold (when she touches ice)
• Dolly
• Baby
• Gianna
• Keys
• Car
• Ball
• Pool
• Hot
• Banana
• Dexter
• Bubbles
• G.B. (for grandmom)
• Maya
• Blue ba (blueberries)
• Ka Boom (when she falls down)
• I think there's more but I'm drawing a blank

Sounds:

• moo
• baa
• quack
• ruff (sometimes)
• neigh (sometimes)
• hoot

Here she is wearing her silver medal from the "Olympics Week" at daycare.  Everyone won a 2nd place medal because aluminum foil is silver :-)  She also has pulled out the book that she consistently takes off the bookshelf when I ask her to pick out a book for naptime- Elements of Style.  Dave is ecstatic about this choice.