19 Months Old

Wheeeeeee!

Sorry for the lack of updates lately. Our Mac Mini nearly gave up on life two days after the unfortunate passing of her father, Steve Jobs, and was out of commission for a few days. She's humming along nicely now but we were without a blogging and picture downloading platform for a few days.

Shelby is 19 months old now and it is getting exceedingly difficult to even take her picture much these days. She's constantly on the go and never stays still for a minute. It's adorable and exhausting. Here's what up in Shelby's world:

• She is getting pretty good about repeating words now and will usually repeat something after you say it two or three times. Her current favorites are football, walk, and outside. She knows what's important in the fall!
• She's practically running now and will take off in a wobbly run often. She enjoys walking everywhere and we don't always have to take the stroller everywhere we go. She will frequently walk all the way home from our playground, on a route which includes a large hill. We walked home on Friday and she enjoyed stepping on all the crunchy fall leaves.
• She is really exerting her independence lately and getting dressed in the morning is often a tantrum-filled battle. She has opinions about everything - what shirt to wear, what socks to wear, when or if she wants to put them on. I can only imagine it gets worse from here before it gets better. Scott is exhausted by the time he drops her off!
• Almost all of her teeth are coming in and her smile is filling out. It's so cute!
• She is really into imitating whatever we are doing and will gladly amuse herself for a while doing things like sweeping the floor, wiping the floor or taking clothes in and out of a laundry basket. Can you tell we stay busy as Shelby's Cleaning Service? Because we do.
• She's been really into watching videos of herself lately and they absolutely crack her up! It's hilarious! She enjoys watching videos of when she was a baby and I think that she understands that it's her. She has also figured out how to push the button to get to the home screen on our iPad. Such a computer whiz. We're counting on her to become the next Steve Jobs and fund our retirement :)

Here's a video of her swinging at our playground: