Stella, 14 Months

This month we traveled to LA for my cousin's wedding.  Stella enjoyed the beach and she really loved dancing at the wedding.  From LA, Stella hopped on a flight to Utah with my sister and my dad, while Mike and I took off to celebrate our 5 year anniversary in Hawaii.  She had a great time with grandma and grandpa and all of her cousins.  I'm so happy she had the opportunity to bond with them.

Over the past month, Stella has really jumped leaps and bounds in her development.  We are having so much fun with her, she's like a mini person now:)

She says a lot of words now including: hot, up, hat, dog, more, mama, dada, min (her minnie stuffed animal), goof (her goofy stuffed animal), mil (milk)...etc.  She is very good at communicating even when she doesn't know how to say something, she points and yells, she goes to the kitchen, sits below the cupboard and cries as loud as she can until you open the cupboard and give her craisins. 

She understands so much.  I'm always amazed. If you tell her to get something or ask her where it is, she'll go and get it.

Foodwise, she's starting to get a little more picky but she still will eat a lot of unique foods and she has no problem eating spicy foods.  Her favorites now are craisins and grapes.  She hates chocolate and really all treats unless they are frozen (she'll eat any sort of ice cream/yogurt/Popsicle/smoothie treat.

Other funny things she does now...

• She loves to sit on the couch like a big girl now, so she whines until we pick her up and she'll sit there with us.
• Lines up all of her toys in the bath along the edge of the bathtub and then knocks them down and does it again.
• lays on her tummy in the bath, blows bubbles and kicks.
• she loves to shut doors.  She'll shut the door (not all the way) to her bedroom and if you knock, she'll open it up.  But, when it's really shut, you'd think she'd freak out, but she just goes and plays with her books, when she's done she'll knock on the door for you to let her out.
• She is obsessed with hats right now.  If she sees one, she'll say "hat" and run to it, try to put it on, get frustrated and come to mommy or daddy to put it on.  To that point, she also loves bracelets.  She will get out her bracelets and bring them to us to put on.  She also wears mommy's all of the time, often she'll walk around with 6+ bracelets on, it's so cute!
• Loves getting on our bed and flopping forward and backward (really scary, because she has no awareness of where she is)

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