Malea at 15 months

Malea is growing up to be the funnest little girl.  She loves laughing and everything is a game to her.  It is so easy to make her laugh and to play with her.  She is what brings us happiness each day!

She is also learning how to throw a tantrum when she doesn't get what she wants and can be quite dramatic at times.... which also makes me laugh. :)


Some of Malea's favorite things......

Favorite food: anything and everything.  Could eat a pound of berries though! and MILK. this girl goes through so much milk.
Favorite book:  Elmo's counting book, Where's Spot, and all of her "Baby's Firsts"
Favorite Song: Head, Shoulders,Knees, and Toes.
Favorite activities:  sorting her clothes in her dresser, and putting on her shoes/jackets, playing with her toy animals, dancing, coloring.

Malea LOVES animals.  She has always loved them. She has never been scared of them.  Once I was on a walk with Malea and a large dog came right up to her stroller and barked LOUD.   It scared me! For sure I thought Malea would burst out in tears.  But nope, she starts laughing!  She makes almost all of the animal sounds, even weird ones like zebra, rabbit, fish. ha ha it keeps us entertained for sure.  A few weeks ago, Grandma Annette sent us a bunch of small plastic animals that malea loves. They keep her entertained for hours!

Malea is slowly starting to say words.  Some of the words she says are, hi! hot! blanket (nana) momma, daaaad, more, hat, night night, i love you (eye ya ya) and a bunch of other things we have no idea what she's saying. We half way tried teaching her a couple of signs but the only ones that she does are "eat" (she points to her mouth) and "milk"  she opens and closes her fists.  She does however understand almost everything we tell her.....no,(she knows this one pretty well :)) close the door, time for a bath, lets brush your teeth, put on your shoes, lets go outside, spin, go downstairs, go get your pajamas/clothes/diaper, go to your highchair, and a bunch of other words I can't thing of right now.  I have been surprised at how obedient she is, for right now at least.  She grabs diapers for me when she poops, she will get her jacket and shoes when we are trying to get out of the door, and she will go to the bathroom and try to take off her clothes when I tell her time for a bath.  It is honestly amazing to see everything she has slowly caught on to these past couple of months.

 And Wow, I am realizing that since Malea turned one, I have been a total slacker at taking pictures of her..... so here are the few that we do have. 

Cindy Lou Who for Halloween