15 Months!

For some reason 15 months feels like a milestone to me. I guess because it's halfway between 12 months and 18 months. Anyway, here is Charlie at 15 months:

Belly shot!

At 15 months Charlie likes to:

*run around anywhere, but especially outside

*open and close things, like doors, gates, etc.

*wave to people (hello and good bye) and point at things (especially puppies- he gets so excited!)

*talk constantly in his baby gibberish

 *play with his bouncy ball

*try to figure things out (like how to unscrew the handle from a drawer, for instance)

*slide at the park with help from Mom and Dad

Here he is going back and forth through the baby gate:

He can't open the gate, but if it is already open he likes to go in and out, carefully stepping over the metal bar each time.

Here is his first kid's frozen meal, and I even gave him ketchup to dip his corn dogs in (which is why he doesn't have a shirt on...). I'd say he liked it!

Charlie said "bye-bye" for the first time on April 6 and Na-Na (short for Granana, while "talking" on the phone to her) on April 18.

He recently had his first experience in a bouncy house at the seminary cook-out! They had one especially for the little kids, and he seemed to love it! I was so sad I didn't have my camera. That night he also climbed his first flight of stairs, from the first floor of Ledford to the landing going upstairs to the gym.

 

He's getting so big!