New skill

Natali is finally stacking blocks herself! She has always just knocked down the blocks and refused to stack them. Yesterday we got the blocks out and she started putting them on top of each other!!! Josh and I couldn't believe it! As you can see she did 4 blocks on her own and later she did 5 I think. We are excited for this new milestone. :)

Oh, and Natali is 16 months old today!

Talking

Natali's words

Words she is currently saying:
1. Dadda
2. Momma
3. Fish
4. More
5. Mimmi (Minnie)
6. Cacker (Cracker)
7. Nana
8. BUBBLE!
9. Uh oh
10. She still makes a cat, cow and dog noise when you ask her.

Words she has said in the past but seems to have forgotten them:
1. Yucky
2. Duck

Words she will say but only if you say them and then she repeats them:
1. Whoa Whoa Whoa
2. Book
3. Ball

That's all I can think of right now. She is doing really well. She tried really hard to say "Ranger" our dog's name last night so we will have to work on that one. It is so adorable when she says something I just love it!

I have a few things to update but I will probably do them seperately - we'll see.

Natali has started sucking out of a straw. :) Josh and I have been making smoothies the last few nights and we use straws to drink them. Well, Natali comes over to us with her mouth open like a little birdie, so I thought I'd try the straw. I made the sucking noise and showed her what to do with her mouth. It took her just a few minutes of trying and she got it... and when she did, she liked it!! It was really funny. Then she kept wanting more and more and more and more! She knows now when the blender comes out what is coming and she gets excited.

"BUBBLE" !!!!

This is a great video because it shows Natali saying "bubble" and it shows she can dance on command! :) She really does. One of things I always thought was cute about little babies before I was ever pregnant was when they would do a little dance. Now I have my own cute dancer!

Photo shoot

I realized I needed more pictures to put on the blog, so I took Natali in her room and took a few pics of her.

She is doing really well , she has a little snotty nose right now, but otherwise good. She is learning more words - the main one right now is "bubbles". We have some bubbles from grandpa and Natalis loves to go outside and have us blow bubbles for her. Now she goes to the door and says "bubble". :) It's cute. I took a video of her outside with the bubbles on our video camera and I am still working on getting it downloaded to our computer. I will post that video later sometime. Natali is also into saying "uh-oh" when she drops something.

Natali's hair seems to be growing really fast lately. Josh took this picture one night when I was gone and he had given Natali a bath. Her hair doesn't look this long when it is dry, so this is a cool picture to me. And kudos to daddy for getting a great picture! (He said it wasn't easy to get her still long enough to capture the photo)

Camera smile

Natali somehow has figured out that she is supposed to smile for the camera! It is really funny. If you have the camera and say her name, she looks up at you and does this cheesy smile. She likes to look at the picture on the camera after you take it. Here are some examples: