14 months already...3 days ago

My boss took off a couple of weeks while she got married so I was working more than double my regular hours. Zach and I were passing in the night and wearing out quickly. Thankfully, my boss returned on Tuesday and life is returning to our old routine. She is currently trying to push some boulders through her gums, on the bottom, so that isn't making her feel too hot, but we are getting through it.

Juni is now saying shirt, tickle-tickle, I love you, Juicy, done, kiss, milk, wash, nose, uh-oh and she is repeating all kinds of words back to us (dirty socks, necklace) as she practices her sounds.

She can run and loves to be chased and caught. Thankfully, she hasn't started doing this outside, but only in the apartment. She and Juicy are becoming better friends each day. Juicy often lets her pet her, as long as Juni doesn't grab her tail. She now loves stacking her blocks and knocking them over, as well as shoving them in a basket one by one and then taking them all out one by one.

At swim, she is holding her breath for longer under the water and doing more actions independently. When released underwater near the stairs, she found the stairs and stood up on her own. As the water splashed over her face, she turned around to Papa, and looked at him, like, "What next, Papa?"

One of her favorite activities is talking on the phone. She goes and goes with with her own words in such seriousness. She gets very disappointed when all that's on the other end is a voicemail and then we hang up the phone. She would talk for hours most days, if we would let her.

She has also decided that most often she would prefer I not take her picture :( She went through a short phase like this before, so I'm hoping this too shall pass :)