14

At 14 months, Noemi...
- has seven teeth and counting
- gets excited when she sees a playground
- likes to turn book pages
- likes music class
- claps when you say "good job"
- raises her arm in the direction she wants you to go in and pats/taps it to tell you what she wants
- loves to unroll the toilet paper and take all of her sister's artwork out of the box
- finds that she likes OJ
- has hair that's getting long in the back and straightening out
- puts her hands together by her face when it's time to pray
- waves bye and can give half blow a kiss
- prefers holding food in both hands to one
- loves to walk
- likes to have lotion or hand sanitizer squeezed onto her hands (and then she rubs them together)
- likes to play with S's dollhouse dolls and furniture
- will pat her bum to let you know she pooped
- says mama, dada, uh-oh, anana (banana), something that sounds like shoe and a few other possible real words


Backwards chronologically...

- Halloween party at the non-profit where N takes music classes:

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- The denim look:

- The "I'm in trouble" look:

- Playground musician:

- Creature of comfort:

- Giddyap, bed (bare since S is sleeping in our room these days because of her night-waking sister):

- Loves feeding herself (yogurt is her specialty though):

- Our pacifier-fetcher who has a fondness for low ceilings:

- She-ra princess of power:

- Little Houdini...found her like this in the middle of the night:

- Feels like a big girl sitting in her sister's dining chair booster seat:

- Toddling along:

- Still gets a thrill from standing on chairs:

- Sometimes we stick her pacifier in her shirt so it doesn't get dirty and because we don't want her to use it all the time...she manages to find it anyway:

- Discovering the joys of sticking dirt in a bottle of water:

- Stacking bugs are the best (magnetic):

- Can't get enough of her open-mouthed expressions...now when you say "Ah" she'll open wide and say it, too:

- My sweet girl:

- In all her glory: