15 months old!

I haven't posted on this blog since Mairi has been born, and I have decided to start up again to update those of you who are interested in how she is doing.

Mairi Hope is officially 15 months old, and I wanted to update all of you friends and family about how she is doing.

• She is into EVERYTHING! As I type this, she has discovered my makeup kit and is pretending to put on bronzer.

• She loves to pretend! She often takes my keys out of my purse or coat pocket and then proudly proclaims, "Bye bye!" and we wish her well on her way to "work". Then she walks to the door and pretends to put her keys in the doorknob. After a few minutes, she runs back into the room and says, "Hi!!".
  

• Mairi is also a little techie like her Dada. She loves phones, laptops, iPods, iPads, kindles, remotes... any and all technology! She knows how to unlock iPods and iPads, along with her Dad's phone. She hasn't figured out the blackberry yet! :)
  

• She loves to take things out of containers and put them back in. We spend lots of time doing this. We are working on sorting by shapes, sizes, and colors. She is a very smart cookie and I'm sure she'll pick it up soon.

• Mairi's favorite words are "dog dog" and "baby". The other day we showed her a picture of herself and Luigi, and she said "DOG DOG! BABY! DOG DOG! BABY!" for like three minutes. She loves it. :)

Mairi is in the 97th percentile for height for her age, and the 55th percentile for weight. She is so tall, talkative, and steady on her feet that people in public often think she is much older than she is.

Mairi has LOTS of words! John and I didn't realize how many until we wrote them all down... here is the list of words that Mairi says:

baby

hello
dog dog
owl
cookie
cheese
mama
dada
granpa
arf
meow
baa
brown bear
lella (bella)
imi (jimi)
duck
bye bye
diaper
no
yeah
ouch
oops
wow
oh my
up
down
all done
alright!
hi
apple
num num
boom
ball
hot dog
bubbles

That's a good update for now, I think! :)