Noel's latest

Here are some fun recent pictures of our little Noel. She is learning and growing so fast. Also, here are some fun pieces of info about Noel and what she has been up to these days.

Noel's favorite foods
-grapes
-instant oatmeal
-poptarts
-yogurt
-goldfish
-cheese
-pizza
-banana
-pancakes
In general she is pretty picky with food because of textures and such. We are still feeding her gerber baby food still but we're trying to wean her away from that.

New words Noel is saying
circle, blanky, bath, mouth, head, eyes, ears, nose, shoulders, toes, yogurt, Jesus, book, coat, pizza, off/on, thank you, juice, teeth, brush, pretty, etc. (I think I've mentioned some of these already in the past.)

What Noel is doing
-She walks everywhere. She's been doing that now for a little over a month and a half now.
-She says "Hi Shasta!"
-Noel gives lots of kisses. She'll give kisses to each of her toys, the wall, family, you name it. She also gives lots of hugs to her favorite stuffed animals which right now are her green Dr. Seuss bird and her bunny. She blows kisses to people behind us in church and plays peek-a-boo with them.
-She blows whenever she sees a candle.
-Whenever she gets near a fireplace or a heater, she gets close to it (not too close) puts her hand towards it and says "hot" and pulls her hand back.
-She says "Weeeeee, weeeeee" as she is twirling and spinning in circles.
-At our family prayer we sing the first verse of the primary song "I kneel to pray" as we are kneeling down to pray and every time she drops to the floor and lays down, knowing it's "nite nite time".
-She loves to entertain. She'll do anything to make you laugh.
-She loves giving and receiving eskimo kisses. It makes her laugh hysterically each time.
-She loves to play the piano. Sometimes she'll play the highest note and then walk to the other end of the piano and play the lowest note. It's so cute.
-She loves books and being read to and she'll bring a book over for you to read to her.

Our cutie.

Snuggling at naptime with her green Dr. Seuss bird.

Noel playing the piano.

Sometimes, in order for her to fall asleep for her nap, I put her in her jumper. I am able to lay her down on a rocker/recliner and get her to go that way sometimes and rarely I'm able to rock her to sleep myself like we do for our nighttime ritual. I don't like to let her cry so we rock and sing her to sleep each night after reading a couple of books to her.

Our lil' Miss Smiley...

...who can be quite serious at times.

Sorry about the orange picture but I had to share. I love the faces she makes. She knows it's entertaining.
Watching Baby Einstein.
Hanging with Dad.

Bath time. She gets excited when you tell her it's bath time. She repeatedly says, "baf, baf, baf".
Dear Noel,

We can't believe you are already 15 months old! You're growing up too fast. Please don't grow up!

Love,

Mom and Dad