13 months old!

Our darling, Miss Lauren Grace, is 13 months old (tomorrow)!!! 
She is such a good big sister, minus the occasional bop on the head to Kaelin. She is learning though, and is doing so great with her new little sister.  She also LOVES to give Kaelin kisses! 

Lauren is talking so much lately too!  She now says Mama, Dada, Baba, Flower and Kay (Kaelin).  She babbles in her own little language ALL the time.  She definately got her gift for gab from her mother.  :) 
She now has 5..almost 6 teeth on top, and 2 on the bottom with 2 more just starting to poke through last night. 
We have now switched to whole milk, but are still working on weaning off the bottle.  It has been a challenge since her little sister is taking one several times a day too.  That is really the only thing she gets jealous about.  I figure, she will be off of it in her own time.  There is no book that says she has to be off the bottle at exactly one year of age.  Someone once told me "There is no question on a college application that askes how long you took a bottle."  We have a lot of change and traveling in the next two months, and we will get more on a schedule and working on taking the bottle completely away then.  Until then, Kevin and I are completely fine with letting her have a bottle a few times a day.  Mostly just first thing in the morning and an hour or so before bed.  Lauren still refuses to drink anything but water in her sippy cup.  I guess that's not such a bad thing.  It's healthy, right?  She will take a sip or two of milk but most of the time it just gets thrown down unless it's water.  She also refuses to drink out of any sippy cup except for the old school tupperware cups.  I have about 8 Nuby cups that I invested in because everyone said they were the best, and she won't even touch them.  She definately has a mind of her own and can be very stubborn sometimes. 

Lauren is also our little climber!  She climbs on the couch, the coffee table and now our bed!  I couldn't believe it when she climbed up and got on our bed.  She is a monkey, that is for sure!  I try to discourage the climbing on the bed, for fear of her falling off or falling into or throwing things into Kaelin's bassinet that we have at the end of the crib. 

We couldn't be happier with our little boo boo bear.  She has been an amazing blessing to us.  She has always been such a good little girl, and if it weren't for her, then we would have been terrified to be parents again.  She has made it fun, challenging and just so awesome.  She makes us laugh all the time.  We can't wait to see her and her sister grow up together.  Lauren Grace you are truly amazing.