15 months

Marin is just growing so quickly.  I look back at pictures from just a few months ago and I feel like she's not a little baby anymore.  She's my buddy though, and we have so much fun together.  At her 15 month appointment she weighed 26 pounds and was 32 1/4 inches (95th% for both).  She is so good at her animal noises (sheep, cow, duck, elephant, dog, cat, horse, bird, bee).  She babbles and talks all the time.  She loves to babble in her car seat especially.  Here are some pictures from her one year photo shoot.  I'm really behind!  She loved this photo shoot at the beginning, and as it continued she grew a little impatient with us.  For her one year check up she was 35 pounds and 31 inches.  This new stage of walking and running around has had a few accidents come with it.  She fell at the playground one day and her two front teeth were shoved up back inside her gums.  They seem to be coming back down, so hopefully there won't be any long term damage there.  Then she was running in the house one day and slipped and hit her head on the hardwood floor.  We had to take her to the ER to get stitches.  It has healed up really well, and hopefully her eyebrow will cover up most of the scar.  I'm sure this is the first of many times she will give me a minor heart attack in my life.

Moss Rock

We love going over to The Preserve and hiking Moss Rock.  It's a fun outdoor adventure for us, and it's nice that it's so close to us.  Here are some pictures from our latest trip.

 Hiking on Daddy's shoulders

 Marin loves bridges and letting leaves fall into the creek below.

OW OW

I think Marin's favorite animal is a cat!  I hate to break it to her but I'm allergic and Mark is not a fan of cats at all.  When there's not much to do I like to take her up to the pet store to look around and when we pull in the parking lot she begins saying "Ow Ow", which is her version of meow.  My mom's cat Jazzy is so good to put up with Marin too.  Unfortunately for Jazzy, Marin learned that the more she pulled her tail or tugged her fur the more noise Jazzy made.  So she was a little rough with her and even tried picking her up.  Marin likes to lay down on her belly and "talk" to Jazzy real close.  Here are some pictures at my sister, Susie's, farm.  This is her cat, Jack, who also put up with a lot from Marin.  She "brushed" him not so gently.  I thought she would be so excited about the horses, but she mostly wanted to play with Jack!