14 months

Pancake is getting so big! She is thinning out and growing taller. She is starting to walk holding just one adult hand. She is more comfortable on her feet and more steady. In her own time she'll be walking unassisted. She also started crawling randomly. She prefers to crawl than scoot now.

She likes to feed herself with a spoon but she makes an incredible mess so I don't really let her do it. She has a bit of a temper now. If she wants to do something like feed herself, or play with a particular toy and she can't or I won't let her she throws the toy in outrage and whines throwing her head back. Doodle was much more easy going. When other kids would take toys away from him he would just find another toy to play with (he doesn't do this any more, but when he was younger he did). Pancake is already making it known to her big brother that he can't get in her face or grab things away from her.

She is still an extremely pleasant baby. She smiles at strangers where ever we go and they just eat it up. She has many more words, like hat, dadad (grandad), meow, apple. She says two and three word phrases on occasion. Lately she's been saying my daddy and my mommy. I don't know where that comes from. I know she doesn't understand the concept of a pronoun yet.

She is quite a good eater. She will sometimes pick around certain foods, but for the most part she eats whatever I give her. She's good at eating big chunks of food too. She chews really well and forces the bigger pieces down her throat without my having to interfere.

She's more adorable than ever. She loves going to get Doodle at school. She has a wide smile across her face whenever she sees him. She loves to splash in the bath and doesn't mind a bit when I pour water over her head to rinse out the shampoo. She has a good amount of hair now. The back is curly and long when you stretch it out. She's such a cutie pie.