15 Months

We had Jocelyn's 15 month appointment on Friday. She got 3 shots and does not like the doctor touching her. Overall, not the highlight of her week! She's growing wonderfully; she weighs 23 lbs, 12 oz and is 30.75". As if she knew it was time to start doing this - she has begun to not want to eat! The doctor asked if she had had days where she wouldn't eat - and she just had started last week. She won't eat nothing all day, but really doesn't eat much and is very particular about what she'll eat. Even her favorite things she's deciding she doesn't want any more. The doctor said it's perfectly normal, and they even out when they have days they eat a whole bunch. Just part of becoming an independent person! She's been really tired and crabby since Friday, so I hope it's just because of the shots and not because she's getting another cold! Winter can't be over soon enough!

Winter Fun

We had a fun day on Monday playing outside in the snow! Jocelyn LOVES going outside, and will walk over to her boots, hats & mittens and bring them to me. She doesn't mind wearing her mittens anymore...she even likes to wear them around the house!

The kids were off school for President's Day, and Mom & Dad were over for a visit. We went sledding (Cal, Kailee and Jocelyn) at a little hill by our house. Jocelyn likes to be pulled in the sled - we couldn't even see her face!

I didn't get any good pictures of them going down the hill. It was pretty bumpy - almost like moguls! I think Calvin's butt still hurts today!

She will go down the slide as many times as someone will put her back up there! It's kinda hard to move with all that winter gear on! I'm really looking forward to summer - I think we'll have a fun time being outside and playing.

Here she is going down - with a little coaxing. I think she was distracted.

Painting

Saturday I had Jocelyn do a Valentine's Day painting project. There's a reason we leave the painting to day care! I started out making a potato stamper, but didn't make the heart flat enough, so it just looked like a pink blob. Then I cut a heart out of a sponge, and that worked better. She likes to squish everything, so she did good at pushing the sponge down good and hard. Then we used a brush and that's when the mess started. She wanted to chew on the brush, which led to paint in the mouth, on her face, on my face, and the table. Everywhere but the paper. :) But she had a blast until it was time to get cleaned up. Luckily the paint comes off with just water, so it wasn't too bad. I think we'll wait a few more months to do that again - hopefully she'll be mostly over putting stuff in her mouth by then!

First Word

Jocelyn has said her first word! It is 'bye-bye'. We went to Mom and Dad's for the weekend, and she was playing with the pop-up toy - where you push the button, move the switch, etc. and the charcter pops up. She would push it down, then Mom would say 'bye-bye' and wave. Then she'd push the button, it would pop up, and the cycle would start again. About half way thru she started to say 'ba-ba' when she waved. I wasn't convinced she really knew what she was saying though, until we left. Then I told her to say goodbye to Grandma and Grandpa, and she said it again while she waved. Yeah!

Now, I should say that she has said words before - she says 'mama', the 'p' sound for Grandpa/Bumpa and 'no'. But she's never said it at the right time or unprompted. We're looking forward to this new stage - I love all the funny things kids say!