*15 months

At some point during our trip, Edie transitioned from that cute wobbly toddly walk to a little speedster.  Like you take your eyes off her for a second and she has disappeared around the library shelves, or into the front yard of your relatives' house and is walking over a stone bridge toward the little garden waterfall...  She is just the cutest thing still and we are having so much fun getting to know her.  She has stopped biting when she's angry or tired - now she throws down whatever she is holding and then will throw down anything else in reach too. She also will swat at my face or grab Vera's hair.  Sometimes my reprimand sparks the cutest little quivering lip sad face and she is quick to give a kiss and a hug, signing "sorry."  It's so stinkin cute and hard not to laugh at her feistiness.

In the last month she's also started signing please and thank you, several animals, friend...  She asks to watch Baby? Baby? all the time and knows how to open the DVD player.  It doesn't matter how many times I say no, Mama does it.  She also will not stop walking around to the back of the tv asking for "baby" - I'm wondering if she thinks the babies from the video are behind there??  She LOVES babies, followed a poor little 3 year old around the library today asking to hold her baby doll.  

What else is she doing......  one thing that I want to remember from our Christmas vacation was sitting around the dining table 'quizzing' her on all the family's names - we'd say wheeere's Lola?  and she'd look right at her or whoever else.  She knew she was on the spot and had the cutest look.

She and Vera are so cute together - giving each other lots of kisses, falling down hugging, playing hide and seek, reading.  She asks for "Wawa?" a lot, I love it.  She's also saying "Daddy" and it's so adorable.  One day at the tidepools I was wearing his flannel and she thought it was so funny, kept patting me and saying Daddy! Sorry I keep saying it, but it really is all so adorable :) She will often babble away about something and then laugh about it, and then repeat the gibberish again.  Babadbda ghheez hahahaha.  babada gheez hahahaha.

She's a pretty good little eater, though if she doesn't like it she will not just spit, but sputter it out her mouth all over the place.  She seems to be gaining some weight which is great.  I am still nursing her twice a day and she is finally doing ok with cow's milk.  I think she's just got a sensitive little gut that takes some time to get used to digesting new things - even as a newborn with breastfeeding, starting solids, milk protein..

I'll take a picture tomorrow perhaps and add it later...