Girl

No, the title of this post is not an indication of the sex of our baby:-). Although I have noticed that most people have voted "girl" on our poll and last time I think every person that guessed the gender said "girl" and so obviously they were right!
The girl I'm referring to is Layla. She is definitely all girl with some of the things she does. She loves shoes (wearing them on her feet and hands) and loves hair accessories (although she'll often want to have them put on and then takes them out and acts like she didn't mean to pull it out of her hair saying "uh-oh" immediately following). While we were camping she had been wearing some pink shoes but since they were left outside all night I told Joe in the morning to just put her white ones one since her pink ones were cold. As soon as he put the white ones on she walked over to the pink ones, brought those to Joe and kept signing "please" until he changed her shoes to the pink ones. Also, after baths now I tell her to go brush her hair and she walks right over to her vanity and will sometimes brush her hair for the next 30 minutes--with the 3 different brushes that are in the vanity. In my opinion she messes up her hair while it dries--she hasn't quite learned how to brush it nicely and in the correct direction with her part--we'll need to work on that:-). She also loves brushing other peoples' hair too including Elvis' and Gavin's:-). Surprisingly Elv most the time lets her brush his hair:-).
I can't believe she'll be 15 months tomorrow already!! She definitely keeps learning new things. She's getting better at getting down from things--she's loved climbing on things for awhile but didn't understand to put her feet first in order to get down. I don't trust her going up and down steps on her own yet, but she does know now how to go down. She learned the up a long time ago, so it'll be nice when she can master the down better! She also continues to learn new words. Today she just started saying "done" while signing "all done". Speaking of which, I realized I was teaching her the wrong sign for "help". Oops! I was doing it close to "please". I'll probably just keep doing it how I taught her though or she might get confused! She also now will sometimes tell me when she wants to take a nap by saying "na-nigh" which is cute. She still hasn't gotten any more teeth--just 4 total so far!

And one more thing on her "girl" post...this is probably not very nice of me to put that in Gavin's hair, but her and Gavin were both enjoying their hair bows on Tuesday:-).