fourteen

Months, not years...*heart attack averted*

***please be forewarned:  this is a Dear Baby post...just my attempt to preserve the present***


Baby J, you are no longer.

Toddler J, you are fourteen months today!  You started jibber-jabbering all day long today - an attempt to mimic our conversation?  Or your way of expressing what's on your mind? Either way, I love it.

This is what you can do at 14 months:

• Walk (& almost run) all over the house!
• Crawl up and down stairs
• Climb up onto our laps or the couch by stepping on objects
• Climb onto my back for a piggy back ride
• Identify and point to familiar people when prompted
• Identify and point to familiar toys/stuffed animals when promptedM
• Bend over & pick up an object while standing
• Throw a ball overhand (your absolute favorite game)
• Pound on a drum & piano; strum a guitar (your 3 absolute favorite instruments)
• Follow 2 step directions
• Point to your eyes when prompted
• Look wherever I point
• Turn pages in a book
• Wave goodbye/hello, blow kisses, "talk" on the phone
• Laugh when you hear loud laughter, clap when you hear applause
• Put your head on the floor/bed when told "good night!"
• Dance and bop your head to music
• Eat with a fork, drink from a straw
• Scribble with a crayon
• Give hugs and kisses
• Brush your teeth  (although help is needed for thorough brushing)
• Bow/nod when prompted to say thank you (in English) or hello (in Korean)
• Push Mommy & Daddy's heads together to make us kiss;  push others' hands together to make them clap
• Fold your hands together and bow your head slightly before eating or when we say, "Let's pray!"

Signs you know:

• More
• Please
• All done
• Milk
• Please give it to me (in Korean)
• Thank you (sort of)
• Help (work in progress)
• Outside (a sign you made up yourself to consistently mean "go outside")

Words you say:

• Appa (Daddy)
• Umma (switched to Korean for Mama, ha!)
• Mool (Korean for "water")
• Ball (probably about 352,983 times a day)  :)
• Mum-mum (baby cracker brand.  But you use it to mean any type of snack food)
• More (just started saying this recently)
• Uh oh!
• Duck
• Dog
• Bear

Words you made up to consistently mean something else:

• Ba - this can mean bird, butterfly, ball, brush
• Nana - banana
• Da - downstairs
• Mo  (Gomo = Korean for paternal aunt)
• Brrrr - balloon
• Doop - soup

No matter what you do (or don't do), always remember that I'm proud of you and that I love you!  Thank you for making each day so joyful, and my heart so full :)