15 months old...going on 15 years old!

February 3, 2010 marked Carrington turning 15 months old. It was a regular day in her world - lots of playing, eating and sleeping. She went to the doctor on the 1st for her check up and weighed in at 22 pounds 2 oz and was 30 inches long. Her weight and length are in the 25-50 percentile but her head circumference remains in the 90th percentile. I keep thinking, there better be a lot more brains than mush so she can become the first astronaut, President of Mars. That is her daddy's dream and one I've never been able to figure out. Why Mars, what's wrong with the U.S.?

Glimpses of things to come...when Carrington gets upset with being told "no" she takes to falling on the floor, rolling around, kicking, and of course, screaming. Well, I've noticed lately she looks at me the entire time she is in the middle of one of her come aparts. That booger, she is deliberate and calculating because if I don't give her the reaction she wants, she continues the rant and keeps looking at me while she puts on the second act. I already hear the door slamming in the background and the less than polite words falling out of her month, when she is 15 years old.

My other glimpse...driving her around in the Pink Tot Rod. Oh my, this one is a hoot! She drives with one hand on the wheel, the other arm laid back, and slouches down to the side. All the while, never watches where she is driving and smiles at us the entire time. The picture in my head...she is 15, driving in a real car, with that awful posture, and has a friend in the passenger seat or even worse, a BOY (gasp), never once watching the road because she is too busy "showing off"! I've already got the solution to this one. She'll be made to watch, a minimum of 100 times, the Virginia State Police issued video tapes of horrific car crashes before she ever steps foot in the drivers seat. That should buy us an extra five years before she regains the nerve to want to learn to drive!

To the "Fairy of Freeze Time", please send me a magic wand so I can keep her at 15 months old, FOREVER!

Since this was supposed to be an update on Carrington being 15 months old and not a glimpse into my worst nightmares, her is what she presently likes to do best!
-Say "shoes" and "night, night"
-Open every drawer she can get into and pull out all the contents
-Help put away her toys or all those "things" she pulls out of the drawer
-Eat M's - translation, M&M's
-Sign the words "please" and "more"
-Stay in a constant state of motion!
-and so much more!

One more thing, we've transitioned to one nap a day. We put her down after lunch and so far, it ain't going like I envisioned! I was hoping she would sleep three hours. It's been more like 1 1/2 hours. However, I'm always thankful that she sleeps 12+ hours every night.