whatever shall we do with this dolly?

Liza is 14 months old today. She is such a pro at walking. She walks with her legs spread so far apart – to balance… with her arms up in the air. She loves to walk in circles and claps for herself often.

She understands so much and imitates many sounds or gestures… but doesn’t say much other than “dis”, “da-da”, and maybe ‘Ni-ni.”

She loves having siblings. The other night Jimmy took all the kids swimming. Liza stayed home with me and she cried, cried, cried when they left. She loves being included. Don’t worry about her… she helped me in the kitchen (p.s. it’s amazing how much one can get done with only one child in the house!)

Little Miss has been teething. She’s been quite fussy the past week. I would be too if I had several molars and several eye teeth coming in at the same time. She’s also a picky eater with textures. She seems to love flavor … just not different textures. This is definitely a common face lately … not so much into smiling when her mouth hurts. She will forever have a triangle mouth… I’ll be curious how she looks as a teenager.

Eliza folds her arms so very well for the prayer (she also loves to lead the music for fhe). We tried to get her to fold her arms for this picture, but she knew we were fooling. Her hair is getting longer and her curls are turning into ringlets, like that one in front.