At 14 months, Sasha continued to climb to new heights, literally. The picture below was taken at the playplace at the mall. To give you some perspective, when she stands at the top of this play-thing, she is taller than me. She continues to learn and grow faster than I can keep up.
Unfortunately, she can move faster than me now. She runs and even walks backwards pretty frequently, just for fun. She has no problem wandering off and seems to love everyone but Grampa Teller (which is hilarious cuz his other two grandkids were OBSESSED with him at this age).
She has been trying to put on her own shoes and socks and appears to be surprised every time they don't just slip on for her.
Feeding Sasha has become a challenge in and of itself. She finally has ten teeth (six on top, four on bottom), but still can't eat a lot of hard foods. She loves to try new flavors and seems to get bored if you don't give her multiple things at a time... unless of course it's something super-awesome
like grapes. She does seem to lean more toward salty foods like crackers, so we have officially given her the title of SALTY BEAR.... plus her initials are SLT so it just made sense.
She went through a growth spurt so trying to keep her full was interesting. Often if she won't eat some random item I can negotiate with something she loves, like her milk cup or a fruit or chocolate. "If you eat a bit of this, I will give you a bite of that." It's frightening how bright she is. She is off of bottles, and doesn't have a problem with sippy cups. In fact, she usually prefers Kaleb's strawed water cups. But that might also be because they're just not hers.
Here is a video we took while at IHOP. I had asked for plasticware, and before I knew it Sasha had picked up the fork and was using it without any practice or instruction
Here's a photo of Sasha with a spoon, she definitely needs more practice than with the fork.
This little gal is such a ham! Once while walking through the food court at the mall she started waving to all the tables as she passed by in the stroller. She looked like the princess on the float in a parade. She is always giving us a cheesy grin and dancing with whatever beats she hears. She has started giving hugs, which just melts my heart. There's nothing like having two little arms trying to reach around your neck to give a good squeeze.
Daddy giving her a bit of his otter pop. This face... It hurts so GOOD!
Getting a good tickle.
