Fifteen Months!!

Essie had her 15 month check-up yesterday. She weighs 25 pounds and is 31 inches long. The doctor said she is growing well and confirmed my suspicion that we are working on the terrible twos already!!

As much fun as she has been lately, she is becoming quite the handful! In the kitchen, she has learned to open the container with the dog food, grab a handful and feed the dogs throughout the day - not that Fox and Ginger mind. She also scoots the chairs around to climb on them and, if I turn my back for 30 seconds, I will find her sitting in the middle of the kitchen table! And, she has figured out how to open the baby gate we put up to keep her out of the kitchen.....many adults who visit our house can't figure out how to do that.....LOL :-)

Essie is talking all the time. Some of her favorite words are: lawnmower, truck, choo-choo, airplane, birdie, tree, flower, elbow, shoe and cracker. She has a huge vocabulary for her age and tries to repeat everything we say.

We recently bought a bicycle trailer for Essie. She loves it!! Whenever she is in the garage, she heads straight for it and climbs right in! I take her for rides every chance we get...to the grocery, the library, the park. We love to take family bike rides....I really like it when Nick pulls Essie because I can actually keep up with him now!!

A Quick Picture....

So, yes, I have been horrible about updating the blog the last couple of months. I will try to get some new posts going soon. In the meantime, I wanted to share my new favorite picture of Essie. She LOVES to go outside and pick "flowers."