Lillian's 14th Month

Lillian is 14 months old today!

This sweet girl is growing too fast now. We are officially walking. Here is a video I took on May 2nd when she finally started walking but now it seems so silly because she is moving all over the place. Here we are Gap and she would throw a fit if I tried to carry her. The floors were slippery so she falls a few times but its crazy how quick they start going once they realize they can walk.

Sleeping: Lillian still takes two naps a day. It took a while to figure out the best schedule now but lately it has worked well if she sleeps from about 9am-10am and then again from 1:30 until 3. She will wake up earlier sometimes or we may be a few minutes getting her down if we are out and about but she still is awesome at going to sleep. No problems with night time sleep except while we were at the beach. It was Eastern Standard time instead of Central (where we live) so we though she'd sleep in until 8am (one hour later than her normal 7am). WRONG! She woke us up about 6:30 every morning which would be 5:30am at home. I think it was because the room got too bright in the mornings but luckily since we have been back home she is back to waking up between 7-7:30am.

Eating: Still eating a lot but I have noticed she is more picky than before. Before she even takes a bite she'll push it away and I have to get on to her to take a bite and once she realizes what it is she's fine. I did buy one of those squeeze pouch things that was spinach, chic peas, and some other vegetable and I had to force it down her. She did not like it one bit. We are working on feeding her meat and veggies before fruit because she has come to love fruit and won't eat anything else once she's had a bite of fruit. She is still so sweet but if she is hungry she has a melt down. We are working on patience for sure. We have always signed eat and more, but randomly at the beach she started actually signing please. Here is video of what she signs a lot. It's more, eat (her version), and please (her version).  She also shoves food in her mouth. We have to give her just a few bites at a time or next thing you know she has chipmunk cheeks. She has shoved half a banana in her mouth multiple times

 and she still loves baked ziti. Momma hates the clean up though.

Teeth: Poor thing I thought for sure she was teething one week this month but no signs of that 4th tooth coming through yet. Once she has more chompers I feel like she'll be able to handle more foods without me having to bake/boil them soooo soft.

Other Happenings: 
-This month was busy. We had Easter, My Birthday, Mothers day, our trip to the beach, quick trips to Atlanta and Nashville.
- We had some nice weather (between rainy days and tornado weather) this month so we got out as much as possible. She loves her cozy coupe car now. Mommy failed and out her in without shoes on so her poor little toes got scratched up.

- Lillian is much more interested in her books now. Especially walking to her bookshelf and pulling them all down. I must say though she is also very good at helping clean the books up when we are done.

- We go to story time at the library on Tuesday mornings and stayed for the craft time this time. It was Lillian's first time coloring and she made this duck puppet. She was only interested in it for about 3 minutes then she just wanted to eat the crayons or drop them on the ground. I will cherish this puppet forever. :) 

- Lillian's personality has also come out this month. She has thrown a few fits especially around eating time. And she has started making so many faces. They are so funny and cute but we know some of them are attitude so we have been working on "being sweet". Kevin was able to capture one particular face we have seen a lot lately. This was the face she made after I told her No when she was throwing a fit at a restaurant. So far the fits aren't bad/embarrassing for me yet so I am hoping to train her that they are not okay before they get out of control.

- Lillian is still pretty clingy to Momma and Dada or Nana and finally opened up to Papa while we were at the beach. She'll say hi and wave to strangers all the time but if they try and actually engage in conversation with her she'll cry or gets a 'tude. 

- She went to Bible class for the first time on April 27th and only lasted about 10 minutes before my cousin had to go get her to calm her down. We tried again the next week and her new teacher is a friend of mine with children, who is so sweet and awesome, said she doesn't mind if Lillian cries if I don't. So we just leave her and hope she will get use to it. Then we went out of town one week and tried again yesterday and she cried the whole time. I hate for the teacher/other children have to listen to her cry the WHOLE class so any advice would be great. Next time we are going to try and have just Daddy drop her off and also take her to the nursery (which is her classroom) during worship for just 10-15 minutes to get her more use to the room. During the nursery time they are free to get on the ground and play with toys where as in class they are confined to the chairs. Here's to hoping she'll learn to love it soon. 

- We decided not to do the whole baby proofing thing in our house. Except the cabinets that have cleaning supplies or other harmful things.We are more working on setting boundaries. So far Lillian is doing great but she loves those kitchen cabinet doors. 

-My Mom got Lillian this chair and she LOVES it. It still needs a slip cover but it is so funny to watch Lillian climb in and out of it.