15 Months!

I'm a couple days late posting Gabrielle's 15th month entry because we have so much fun during the day I sometimes don't even turn my computer on for several days in a row. Gabrielle had her 15 month check-up yesterday. She stills weighs 20 lbs., but she is 2 inches taller. So much for 'baby fat'. She is tall and skinny for her age. If you have seen her recently, you would notice how much taller she looks. She is growing like a WEED!

We have had a lot of fun this past month. TONS of play dates! The last week in June we had a play date everyday. Boy, was I tired. Gabrielle loves going to the park. She is so coordinated. She runs all over the place including UP the slides. That is one of her favorite things to do.

A couple of updates from last month. I had mentioned that Gabrielle likes to throw food. Well, now she will throw something and then look at us with a huge smile and shake her finger at us. It is so funny, but I don't let her see me smile:) Last month she perfected her owl sound, which she still does, but now likes to "woof" and "vroom."

Her new favorite words are, "Apple," and "Garbage," (what is it with garbage?? She still loves the garbage can, the garbage trucks going by-even though she is terrified of them and clings to my leg, putting things into the garbage--we hardly even have any garbage because we recycle pretty much everything! I am trying to shift the focus to the recycle bag, but it's not shiny and doesn't have a cool foot pedal! LOL) She also loves to say "Hi" to pretty much everyone (especially at church) and she also says "Oct-TOE"--obviously referring to her purple octopus bath toy:) She is pretty good at letter sounds. She has this fun little phonics "computer" and she is really good at repeating letter sounds. I am so impressed. Gabrielle also has starting singing along now with her Alphabet Dog and Singalong Puppy, in addition to her dance moves. She likes to hold her arm up and bob it up and down to the beat when she doesn't feel like breaking out all her moves.

We also had a wonderful vacation to Houghton Lake over the 4th of July. We might just have to make it a tradition. Grandma and Grandpa Sexton joined us for the week which made it even more fun! We stayed on a cottage right on the lake, so it was easy for Poppy to take the jet-ski out whenever he wanted. Gabrielle even got to go for a ride on his "boat" which she LOVED. She also had a fun time in her zebra boat and going for lots of stroller rides. We had such a great time that we are going back the first week in August!

I think that's about it. Happy summer still!

@ the park






Play dates = Great Naps!


Gabrielle loves her sandbox


@Houghton Lake








HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!