sixteen months

Can it be possible another month has gone by?  Chloe is sixteen months old today!  I seriously feel like we just wrote her last month entry.  Chloe continues to be into everything and acting more and more like a toddler and less and less like a baby.  It makes us sad to think that she is no longer a baby but it continues to be fun to watch her grow and experience things for herself.
Chloe continues to love reading and the reading teacher in me loves it and thinks it is so cute.  She is happy to read book after book and it is really exciting to watch her point to words on the page as if she is following along.  She will also point to different environmental print like signs and when she is going through our mail.

Some new words this month are down, no (clear as a bell like a feisty young girl), tickle, tickle, tickle, and book. She loves fake laughing and acting like she knows what the adults are talking about.  
Chloe has been really fascinated by the falling leaves and watching them blow around in the street.  She also gets so excited and happy when the wind is blowing in her face.
Chloe is so funny in the morning when we have to wake her up.  She will kick and straighten out and huff and puff like a teenager and be real grouchy until she gets her morning milk.  She is still drinking from a bottle in the morning and evenings and will refuse it if we don’t warm if for her.  Yes, she has got our number.  If she is drinking her bottle and a light turns on she will be quick to get her one free hand up to eyes to cover them.
Chloe also loves the stairs and has mastered coming down them on her bottom or backwards.  She loves to crawl up our stairs and look out over the little ledge and giggle at herself.
Chloe loves to pick up “garbage” and throw it in the trash can.  I caught her one time throwing a five dollar bill away.  We definitely need to keep an eye on her.  She will also randomly walk to the kitchen and if the door to the basement is open she will close it for us.  She sure is a funny one. She also loves to take our keys and press the lock button which makes the horn go off.  When the horn goes off she will open her mouth into a circle, take a deep breath, and look at us.  She loves to also try and reach on her tip toes and stick the key in the door knob as if she is unlocking it. AND ANOTHER thing is that she is quick to pass over the phone when it rings or dings.  If either one of our phones makes a sound, she stops what she's doing and hustles over to retrieve it for us.  We love it.  

Chloe still loves Sesame Street especially Abbey and Elmo.  The other day I was wearing a shirt with red writing and red pants and she kept pointing to both saying, “Elmo?, Elmo!”
Shortly after her fifteen month birthday we took her for a well visit.  She was weighing 20 pounds and 3 ounces and is 29 inches long.
Stay tuned for our little bumblebee come Halloween!