Our growing girl!

After posting an update on Heath this past month, Reese made it known that she was equally deserving of an update post!

Reese Jean is a week away from 16 months and has made quite a splash of development in month 15. She went from taking a step or two then dropping to the crawl, to now walking and even charging ahead on foot every day, all day. If she drops to her knees, she picks herself right back up to her two feet to move.

She has also introduced the high pitch scream this last month, finding her own voice amidst having a big brother around. It usually comes out when she is frustrated and doesn't have the language to articulate what she wants (that toy) and so she clinches her fists, shakes her whole body and lets out the roar!

Enjoying the horse at the Children's Museum

After the physical growth spurt of walking, her language started to take off in the last week and a half. This welcomed development has limited her scream a bit more as she expresses herself often with sign language combined with words for: more and please. She is trying out any word she can by repeating what we say and to our surprise is executing quite well for: thank you, water, cracker, Heath, Reese, carrot, bean, up, down, all done, orange room. For a girl who up until a year had only been saying dadda and mamma, this past season has been exciting! She has even started to make the connection of needing a diaper change with the sign for potty. When we took the diaper mat out at an event last week she laid down and rolled onto it, welcoming the change! My heart is so hopeful that this girl vs boy thing will make potty training a different experience for our future!

She likes to eat :)