Rowan:14.5 Months

A few days after I wrote Rowan's last update, she started to stand & walk!  It was on January 7, 2011 when she was about 13.5 months old.  It seemed to happen overnight. Once she started to walk more than 5 or so steps, she was walking half way across the room, then all the way across the room, then she just stopped crawling all together. Then she turned 14 months old on January 26th...and again I need to hurry and write up her update because she is just growing and changing so much!!  She is now an expert walker, and even was running yesterday?!?!?  She was home with Liam and Dad and she grabbed one of Liam's cars and ran across the room.  They were both very surprised to see her take off like that.  This past month she also has been sick. First she got a little cold, then when she seemed to be better she came down with a fever and cold, and Liam had a fever too...but after hers broke after about 5 days, she had a little rash so we think she had Roseola. Plus on top of that all, she was teething, so she was not very happy for about a week!   She has been loving trying new foods.  She has tried Kiwi, Mango, Orange and loved them all.  She pretty much loves anything we give her, and even if she doesn't seem to like it, she will eat it anyway. We usually know when she really likes something when she says 'Mmmmmm' .  We know one day she will probably start to get picky, so we are enjoying this phase while it lasts.  Some of her new words lately have been 'Night Night', 'Wow', 'Book'.   She makes growl sounds a lot, and roars at her riding Lion toy.  She says 'bye bye', and blows kisses, even with the kiss sound now.  We think she is going to be a bit of a tomboy.  She LOVES Liam's toys, especially his Thomas trains.  Thankfully, Liam is learning to share because she is starting to get a bit of a 'tude' now.  That is our word for attitude, but think 'tude' is a cuter way to describe it.  She is so easy to make smile, and she has such a funny sense of humor too.  She comes up to us now and tickles us, and says 'Tickle, tickle, tickle'.  She also thinks her farts are funny because after she farts, she laughs like a hyena...just like her mom ;) She also loves to dance, which is a totally new thing to us because Liam never started doing that till after he was 2, and even then it's more like running around.  We had a little dance party one night, and she made us laugh so much dancing to 'Jungle Boogie'.  We love her so much and constantly feel so lucky at what a good baby/kid she is!!

comment by Gaylene on 02/18/2011
So adorable! Love "tude" also...can't hardly wait to see how they've grown next month