Uh Oh!

These are Reese's new words. It is very cute to hear her say them. They also go with her new climbing habits. She stands up on a step stool or gets up on a kitchen chair and claps her hands.

Uh Oh! also describes going shopping with Reese. She does not like to sit in the stroller or cart, and if you let her down, it is uh oh! she has disappeared!

Reese has gained some teeth. She has her ninth front tooth and her first molar, but I don't try to check that often because I tend to get bit! She loves to eat and will eat almost anything, but especially likes chicken wings, noodles, apples, strawberries, and bananas. She is not too fond of fish!

At 16 months old on Sunday Reese is still a tiny little thing wearing 12 month clothes that are sometimes still big. She is finally growing into the 12-18 month slippers that I bought for her around Christmas, and she has been wearing even though they were big because they did not cause her to trip.

Today is the first day that she has waved bye bye to me from her perch in the high chair as I was leaving her at school. The teachers say she needs that time in the high chair at the beginning of the day to observe what is going on and will get down about 10 minutes later.

Bye, Bye Bottles!

I took Reese's bottles away from her on Christmas Eve. She was sick last week and drinking Pedialyte from a sippy cup first thing in the morning, so I thought that, like Riley, this would be a good transition time. Before this, Reese would not drink milk from a cup. I was right, she transitioned perfectly, she drinks both milk and juice from a sippy cup.

In addition, on Christmas, Reese learned to drink from a straw. Up to this point she has tried and not been able to, but really wanting to because that is the way that Riley drinks. She finally put it all together on Christmas with her uncle and a juice box.

Update

Last week, Reese had a virus. She had a fever for 4 days and when Mommy took her to the doctor, she had another ear infection, this time the left ear. She is on the mend now and enjoying time with our family.

This is Reese's second Christmas, and I think that she will have more fun this year. She enjoyed unrolling the wrapping paper on the floor and then sitting in the middle of it. Of course, all my gifts look like I recycled wrapping paper because the paper was so wrinkled! But, why waste paper!