Fifteen Months

Our Natalie Grace is now 15 months old.  What a joy this girl has brought to our lives...thanks be to God!

At 15 months she:
-gives GREAT hugs or what we call 'squeezes' and nice, sloppy, wet open mouth kissses.
-can climb up onto almost anything...kitchen chairs leading to the table, ottoman, the coffee table, the island in the kitchen using a chair and a drawer (see here!), upside down laundry baskets, etc. 
-from some of those places she will fearlessly jump to another object such as the couch or chair. 
-has officially hit her head on the fireplace hearth.
-has figured out how to unzip any zipper in sight. 
-tries to pick up 'Sissy' Aleah when she is crying.
-gives endless hugs and kisses to Aleah.
-LOVES to sit on the couch and hold Aleah "all by herself,"chatting with her in a special high-pitch voice.
-chases Buddy out in the yard in the snow.
-holds out her hands for us to grab when we pray before meals and says all done at the end (not amen...but they're pretty much the same thing, right?).
-says some new words (besides mama, dada, papa, nana, caca (cracker)): Na-E (Natalie as she points to herself), bah (bath), sissis (sissy for Aleah), cak cak (quack for duckie), nigh-nigh (this oughta be self-explanatory :) ), buh-bye and hi (these too!), Bu-E (Buddy), ?? (apple...not sure how to type this one out...but we know what she's saying), kock (sock), pa (pacifier), a-dun (all done).
-constantly takes her socks off.  It's to the point where I don't even know why I put them on her in the morning...but its cold outside, so I'd feel like a horrible mother otherwise.
-tries to put my slippers or shoes on me while I'm sitting nursing Aleah.
-exposes her belly and tries to put Aleah's nursing shield on it. 
-takes Aleah's pacifier and then tries to put it back in her mouth.
-gives Aleah pretend drinks with her little teacups and bites with her spoons (my measuring spoons).
-brings any of her stuffed animals over to me while doing sign-language for "drink" when I'm nursing Aleah.  In other words, she thinks they need a "drink" like Sissy!  :)
-throws a bit of a tantrum when she gets frustrated or doesn't get her way.