Since I've slacked on the blog (sorry!) these pictures range from the last couple months.
Oh, Seoul had her 15 month appointment and she's HEALTHY!
Stats:
Weight - 22 pounds, 14 ounces (50th percentile)
Length - 31 1/2 inches (80th percentile)
Head - 18 inches (50th percentile)
Seoul can go up and down steps on her own. She had a ball going up and down the play structure by herself. This marks the first park visit that warranted a fit when it was time to go home. Poor baby has a hard life :) It was funny to watch her squat down under the structure and "spy" on the other kids.
My little helper/shadow. Some days I can't turn around without her being under my feet. Other days she goes off on her own to play. She always wants to help me do my tasks whether it's helping with the dishes, standing on the open dishwasher door (no picture!), throwing my clean lids on the floor (or the garbage), dusting, or working.
Some of Seoul's rainy day activities are coloring with crayons (when she's not eating them!) and playing the piano (or as she calls it the "da da").
Like most little kids she loves other kids, although she calls them all babies :) This is with our new little friend Landin Springer - she liked patting him on the back. Then there is our little friend Blake Steyskal, who loves to give her kisses!
Story time is her favorite time of the week. We go to Wilsonville Public Library Baby Time and now all the kids are walking so she toodles around and plays with the toys and kids. Peek-a-boo with the sheer handkerchiefs and that square toy is her fave. From the beginning she loved these rubber poky balls. They gave one to each kid for participating!
I feel like I also say no to going outside because it's raining lately... but she loves going out. Says "bye" and plays with the door knob. We just walk around and get the mail (at her request) and hang out. With all the rain she discovered mud puddles and thinks the rain drops are bubbles on the surface of the water. She also loves collecting rocks - there are some in every room of our house :)
Here's our little "mommy" - she likes to feed her "babies" and give kisses. She hated the dolly at first but then learned to love her. One day she put her in her cradle and threw a blanket on top of her for a nap.
She loves to climb... onto the dishwasher door, up the step ladder if it's open, up the armrest of the couch, and this one is the stroller. She crawled up and down and was so pleased with herself.
She LOVES socks and shoes! She would wear them all day and all night if given the choice. It's fun that she gets her shoes and jacket out of the closet when she wants to go out. Sometimes she also takes them back to the closet if we tell her to. She also loves our socks... funny: one day she was "helping" me fold laundry (which entailed running away with all my socks). I had mismatched socks for a while and one day a couple weeks later found the matches in our DVD drawer. Thanks Seoul!
She discovered grass isn't terrible and roams freely now. She loves to go visit the strawberries in our garden and touch each one. I'm going to have to fight her to share with me when they are ripe!
She can feed herself with silverware (even soup and big people cereal with milk). She's also mastered using a cup. She loves spaghetti and as you can see... sometimes she uses alternative methods. (I happened to have the camera in the restaurant :)
Her first spoken phrase was "daddy's home!" (and now says it when he gets home while going to to the door or standing and waiting for him). Every once in a while we go to visit Kelley at work and have lunch with him (Chipotle - YUM!). She likes to sit in daddy's chair.
MISCELLANEOUS PICTURES AND BLURBS that don't necessarily correlate, just mixed together.
As most little children, Seoul is into reading the same book over and over. One night we read our before-bedtime story and she wanted to read it again. I told her I would read it again in the morning and leaned it against her dresser. SO, the next morning after breakfast she goes to her room, gets the book, and brings it to me in the kitchen. She gets my attention and hands me the book with the look "You PROMISED you'd read it to me in the morning. Stop what you're doing!" And so we read the book.
She throws things in the garbage when we ask her to. Just a couple times she has thrown non-garbage away but fortunately I've caught her and pulled the goods out of the trash.
If we're laying on the floor she comes over and "body slams" us - says "body" and throws herself on top of us. What? This sweet little face doing that? Yep! Especially when we're not expecting it!
We love it... every day she does something new that makes us laugh and smile. She brings us such joy!
TO END...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDPA!! (Seoul can say 'happy' and 'grandpa' and a version of 'birthday' although we have to prompt her with each word to make the phrase.)
