Daphne is 15 months old today. I didn’t see much of a difference between 13 and 14 months, but she has changed quite a bit in the last few weeks. Here’s the latest:

- Adding new words to her vocabulary all the time. This past weekend she said “baby” (BAY-BEEEEE, all strung out like a proper Southerner) and “no” for the first time. “More” is one of her favorite new words. Like a true girly girl, she is obsessed with lip products and lotion. She’ll bring me her lotion, I’ll dab a bit on her finger and give her back the bottle, she hands it back to me, says “more!” and the whole scenario repeats until she’s COMPLETELY moisturized (slimy, really) and I have to hide the bottle from her.

- She LOVES her baby dolls. It’s so cute to see her carrying them around, hugging them, kissing them, feeding them (sometimes from the dog bowl, apparently they like kibble). Today she checked out the American Girl catalog for the first time and pointed to just about everything in the book. Chris, start saving your money now!!

- Daphne sang for the first time on Sunday. It was baby dedication day at church, so we had Daphne in service with us. During the praise and worship time Daphne just started singing. And she was SO serious about it. We couldn’t stop laughing.

- She discovered TV a few weeks ago. When she was younger she’d watch maybe a minute or two of TV before getting bored. Now she will sit and watch an entire episode. She also realizes there is a relationship between the remote and the TV. Today she was trying to turn on the TV and kept looking at the remote and the TV screen, trying to figure out why Noggin wasn’t on. She does the same thing with the Wii wheel. She’ll stand in front of the TV just driving away with the wheel, wondering why Mario Kart isn’t on the screen.

- She loves to give the dogs hugs and kisses. But when I ask for a kiss or hug she either ignores me, or shakes her head no. Pfffft!! The only time she’ll kiss me is when I’m rocking her to sleep. Chris gets hugs and kisses all the time from her. I don’t get it.

- Her hair is getting long enough to pull out some of the baby curls. The ringlets are gone and have been replaced by slightly wavy hair. It’s not pretty wavy, more weird/funky wavy. Definitely another awkward hair stage. I bought a curl activator cream for her and have attempted to scrunch it dry. Yeah, that’s way too much work considering she’ll just roll on the ground and destroy her hair.

- It’s amazing to me how much she understands. She follows commands pretty well. Go in your room and get your baby doll, put this away, go give this to Daddy, go close the door.

- Can’t wait to see what the next month brings!!!