This past month has flown by and we can't believe Mattie Cakes is 16 months old! She is growing and learning so quickly and we are having fun along the way. Now that football season is over, I feel like we can 'breathe' again as a family and get back to normal. It has been wonderful because George can pick Mattie up from school early everyday and gets to watch her during group time.
Mattie's class has recently learned about wheels and she loves looking at buses, trucks, bicycles - anything that has wheels. She also likes to 'drive' our car and say "beep! beep!" They have also been learning to count from 1 to 5 and Mattie has been 'counting' her toys at home by lining them up and then saying 'two, five'. Her vocabulary continues to grow each week. She can say a lot of words for her age, which is no surprise since her mother sometimes doesn't know when to be quiet. :) I have no problem admitting this - it's the first step...right? Some of the new words Mattie says are: shoes, broccoli, mine, 'oh no!', yeehaw, book, Elmo, Abby, outside, cracker, baby and too many others to count. At first we wrote down words regularly as she was saying them but we soon realized that it was hard to keep up.
Here are some of the highlights from the past few months:
- Walking (14 months)
- Climbing on everything!
- We've begun to experience what having a toddler is like with Mattie's fits. She sometimes like to throw herself down dramatically when she doesn't get her way. It is hard to keep a straight face sometimes!
- Teeth...and more teeth! Mattie now has 8 teeth and we thing 4 molars coming in at once. Joy!
- First overnight trip away from home
- Trip to the pumpkin patch with the Hortons
- Now helps us get her undressed and dressed
- Mattie loves shoes and loves to carry her shoes everywhere (if she's not wearing them!)
- Likes sitting in chairs by herself
- Mattie's favorite toy right now is her baby. She loves holding baby, dressing baby, tucking baby in, etc. It is so cute. She will even give her baby medicine when we ask her to.
- Another one of Mattie's favorite new things to do is pick up and throw rocks. This is going to be a fun habit to break.
- Everyday Mattie goes to the doors, tries to open them and says 'outside'. This girl LOVES to be outdoors and gets very frustrated when she can't go out.
I am sure there are many other highlights, but those are the ones I can remember right now. We are gearing up for the holidays and can't wait to see everyone. Stay tuned for Mattie's Halloween costume photos. She was a ladybug and it was adorable. Here are a few other great recent pics:
