Sara, that girl can dance!

Okay, there aren't any pictures of Sara actually dancing, because those are elusive... but she loves to dance to music... anywhere, anytime... and its lots of fun.

Apparently Sara's dancing is quite convincing of this fact too... well, at least to the boys in her room at day care. So last week, they brought out a new Sesame Street music CD at day care... and well, Sara was ready to do her thing and bust-a-move. Well, wouldn't you know it, but one of the boys wanted to dance with her... and Sara likes company, so she had not problem with it... Then, one of the other young gentlemen decided that HE wanted to dance with little-miss-not-even-15-months-old-yet... and even though Sara tried dancing with both of them... it turns out that even toddlers are not immune from repeating one of the oldest stories in history... and apparently there was some "tussling." No one was hurt or anything, and I gather some amusement was had by those that had to break it up...

Well, there was some dancing again, a few days later, and well there wasn't any tussling, but when one kid decided they didn't want to dance anymore... Sara just kept holding their hand and followed them... dancing. You just cannot deny this young lady, it seems, when it comes time to dance.

Sara is moving faster and climbing things all the more now... she especially likes trying to climb in and out of the rocker-glider chairs we have... she also likes finding small boxes or appliances just her size for her own chair as well. She is also trying to say more and more words, and trying to learn more words for things as well...definitely in the big sponge stage.... the best is that she has picked up somewhere 'wowwww' and we have been trying to teach animal sounds, but the only one that has really took hold, is the similar sounding, 'rowwrr' (cuz that's what the lion says, of course).

As tomorrow is her 15-month birthday, we had another doctor's appt today for a checkup and more shots... seems she grew an inch and gained about a pound and half over the summer. So, she is up to 32" and 26 lbs 11 oz... this time they said she was only in the 90th percentile in such things... so still growing well.



... looking far more grown-up in this photo than she should





and of course, enjoying a good book with Mom.



scarfing a last cheerio before bedtime...



and showing that she can walk up the steps to the slide at the park all by herself.