We've got a toddler!

Savannah's legs were getting all scrunched in her rear-facing carseat, so we went ahead and switched her to a forward-facing seat.  She got a few more months than her brothers.  We switched all of them right at one year old.  Savannah was about 15 months old.  She likes it!  

She is such a big "helper"...  

She is a climber!  She climbs on the table whenever she gets a chance.  Forget about flowers, food, homework, or anything extra left on the table... she'll get it!  (My sister ruined my homework...?)  She also climbs the ladder up to the top bunk.  Great...  

I love her climbing to try to get to my scrapbooking stuff.  A scrapbook turned into a little ramp for her.  

She likes to finish whatever food her brothers leave on the table.  One morning, she wanted to eat HER food at the table - such a big girl, feeding herself cereal.  She also loves to climb on the Lego table and sit right in the middle of everything.  She put the pirate hat on too.  As far as the Legos, she is pretty good with them as far as not putting them in her mouth.  Her favorite thing is to pull the heads off the Lego people and carry around the heads!  We now have a bunch of headless Lego people...and I keep finding heads everywhere.

She has been really slow on walking, but she did finally take several steps this week!  She is a really fast crawler though.  I have to laugh when I see her with things in her hands, scooting around really fast.

She has very few words.  One of them is cracker.  She also knows dada (won't say mama), ball, baby, and bear.  I think she's got the "B" sound - she says "buh" for bath and bird and book.  She refuses to say "more" or "yes" or "no", "down" or anything that would be helpful in knowing what she wants.  Insert tantrums...sigh.

  

These weren't her very first steps, but the first ones captured on video.  She took a few steps a couple of weeks ago, but had not done anymore until a couple of days ago (April 30).  Finally!  She had a whole cheering squad.  I love it!  These are painfully slow to watch, but these steps have been a long time coming.  These are great moments for us!  You think she's a bit cautious??

Celebration!