Firstly, I have to appologize for the lack of updates.  Our main computer has not been working and that is where all the pictures end up and I haven’t been able to transfer them yet.  But to catch everyone up…

Ally is now 16 months old and as independent as ever.  She has been walking for a couple months now and is just happy, happy to be exploring her new world.  She absoluitely loves to be outside.  We usually end up in the front or backyard at some point during the day.  She loves to pick flowers, collect rocks, play in her baby pool, walk up and down the drive-way, and water the plants. 

Ally is just starting to really express herself with words.  She has been great at signing to communicate her needs, but we are finally starting to get some cute words.  Her is a little list: Dadda, doggie, ish (this can either mean fish or shoe), duckie, done, dye-dye (bye bye), nana (banana), ni-ni (night-night), up, dady (baby), naaa (sheep), and NA! (no!).  But still no MAMA….errr!

Her newest thing is to play shoes.  She loves to get down her shoebox and go through and pick out shoes to wear.  This is usually the first thing we do in the morning and then there are many shoe changes throughout the day.  It is so cute to watch pick them out and actually pick out matching pairs.  The other day she picked out shoes for me to wear as well. 

She discovered her belly-button this week and is constantly lifting up my shirt to poke mine as well.  Which is lovely when you are at a park!

She is now somewhat interested in TV,  we have a DVD player in our car for long trips and she just disovered it.  One of the songs from the cartoons was stuck in my head and I was singing it aloud when she mimicked my singing…seriously ADORABLE!!

Well for now this is as much as I can do.  I promise to try and update with pictures SOON!!