Julia at Fourteen Months!

Julia turned fourteen months this month.  Craziness! 

• Julia never crawls anymore unless merited by a particular situation.  She has pretty good balance and loves to pick something up (like a toy or a book or a piece of clothing or any other random item) and toddle around the house, and then set it down, and pick something else up, and toddle some more, and set it down and pick something else up, and, well... you get the idea.  Times infinity.  It's pretty much her life these days.  She's a very busy, determined little person.  Doing her important work.  Of strewing things about the house. 
• She'll sit still for a little longer to play, though, too.  This morning, she was pretending to feed her milk to her stuffed turtle.
• She discovered the hidey hole in our entertainment center and loves to climb up there (with help, usually, although she has managed to get up there by herself before).  She also climbs on the fireplace, the ottoman in front of our couch, the dishwasher... the list goes on.  Monkeybaby.

• Julia loves technology...computers, phones, etc.  In fact, I made the mistake of leaving my laptop open while working on this post and came back to find the following.  I don't even know how to make most of those symbols, except by opening my symbols palate, which she didn't have open.  Kids these days... ;-)
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• Julia is getting much better at scribbling!  Crayons are fun!

Julia and the Purple Crayon

• Julia is an outdoorswoman!  She loves to run around outside exploring.  She may or may not have tasted dirt the other day...
• Her vocabulary continues to grow, and she's begun abandoning a lot of her more rudimentary versions of words for pronunciations much closer to the real deal (like being able to say "pizza" instead of "peepee"... which is an important one, in my estimation).
• And, speaking of peepee, we got Julia a little potty seat to begin to get her used to the idea of sitting on it to go to the bathroom.  She's successfully tinkled a number of times, and the sensors at the bottom of the bowl feel the wetness and trigger a little tune to celebrate.  Aaron and I are more amused by that than Julia is, I think.  Totally worth the couple extra bucks! ;-)

Rocking the Royal Stepstool Potty.

 Yay for fourteen months!