Fifteen Months

15 Months

• You are walking now!! It took a lot of chocolate chips to motivate you to do it, but now you are 100% walking. It makes playing outside so much nicer because your aren't dragging your pant knees through the mud and not scraping them up on the cement. Don't get me wrong, you still get plenty of dirty outside, your outfits are just handling it better.
• Being outside is still your favorite thing. You love the sandbox and playhouse. One day, we striped you down to your diaper, turned on the hose, and made a mud pit for you and Sam to play with the trucks in. You guys were out there for about an hour. It shows that you spend more time with Sam because you really like to play with cars and trucks.
• You are still a picky eater, but I feel like we are turning a corner on it. Just tonight for dinner, you ate all your broccoli. I gave you ranch to dip it in and that made the difference. Some of your favorite food include pbj, green beans, peas, grapes, raisins, black beans, and strawberries. 
• One o'clock church has been rough lately. We took away your pacifier right when we got home from California and it is so hard to get you to fall asleep at church. This last Sunday, I finally brought the ergo with my and just walked around the outside while talking to Grandma Price on the phone. I can't wait until we change to ten o'clock church in Idaho.
• Let's talk about that pacifier. It should have been taken away around your birthday, but I really wanted it for the California trip (which was really helpful). When we got home that night, I had to throw them all in the trash for my sake. I was nervous that if it didn't go in the dumpster, I would cave and give it to you. You didn't nap well that first day, but after that, you have done well. Though for about 2 weeks afterwards, whenever you saw another baby with one, you would try to steal it.
• We took you guys to the Aquarium in Layton where you can touch most all the animals. You really like touching the lizards and actually remained clam when the birds were surrounding us.
• You aren't saying too many more words, but you understand a ton more. I ask you to "Go get Millie's book" and you will go get one of your books to cuddle up with me to read. Your favorite books are Little Blue Truck,  Blue Hat Green Hat, The Foot Book, Where is Baby, and the Pride and Prejudice book. I will also ask you to get your shoes, and you will go to the shoe box and empty it all out. 
• You really are into everything. You will push the chair around and climb up onto it. You can climb onto the couch and get onto the side tables, you sneak into your sibling's closet and make a mess, you grab the crayons from the drawer and color on the floor, sneak into the baking drawer to eat chocolate chips, throw all the pillows off the couch, scatter all your books across the livingroom, and still will get into the bathroom to pull out the contents in the drawers and play in the toilet. It is exhausting just listing it.
• Swim lessons started this week, but I will talk more about it next month once you have done the two weeks of it.