16 months old

A first today! This is the first time I have pulled the camera out and Britton has looked at it, then given me a smile in response! She now knows what the camera does, loves to pull the lens cover apart, and dang it all if my camera got slow on me and caught this beautiful smile at the end.



Britton is a waving machine and I am convinced she was a Wal-Mart greeter in a previous life. She loves to wave at everyone (including the construction workers across the street) and is convinced that by looking at the front door and waving at it that people will come in and play with her. It's endearing, and frustrating when the neighborhood kids won't just play along. Britton is big now, but no stats until her 18 month appointment in February. She is in size 5 diapers, and size 24 months/2T clothes, and size 5 shoes. Grandma has been gifting Britton with new shoes, and she now has more pairs than I do! She is also attempting to put her clothes on herself, though sometimes the pants get put on her head and the shoes are backwards.

Britton is still adding to her vocabulary, though this month I have noticed that she is now adding facial expression and inflection. So it's no longer "uh oh" when she drops something, but now the eyebrows go up and she widens her eyes while saying "uh oh!". She is mimicking a lot, down to wiping down furniture with baby wipes and washing herself with a washcloth during her bath. As well she is getting her canine teeth in, and was downright grumpy from the pain, though it seems to have eased off. Britton enjoys playing outside, coloring with chalk, art projects in general (though she now prefers markers to crayons), playing ball, and "riding" Daddy (climbing all over him while he tries to bop her up and down). She is very sweet to Sadie, or at least tries to be, and throws the toy for her and tries to pet her.

Britton is eating very well, though she now prefers cold fruit at every meal - honeydew, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, pineapple, and cantaloupe. The cold fruit helps with her sore gums. She has gone through phases of eating less, then eating more, and we just go with the flow as far as how much she wants to eat.

This is the first year Britton will be actively involved in Christmas, and we're currently dealing with her immense interest in our Disney tree. This year we decided to do two trees, one in the dining room where the presents go so Britton won't try to get into them, and one in the family room. We put our Disney ornaments on the family room tree because we have so many of them! She decided tonight to take off the Mickey ears made of jingle bells and shake it.

Likes: Baths (after months of fighting them, she is back in love with them), coloring, music (especially when the hub plays her Lady Gaga), interactive songs, turning off the tv, turning off lights with the light switch, pomegranate cereal bars, books

Dislikes: Not being allowed to leave her art table with a marker, being told "no" in general, cold windy weather