Sylvia is 15 months old!

That's right... Sylvia is 1.25, and she's now over 22 pounds. Her second year seems to be going by even faster than her first!

She's still falling asleep on her own for naps and bedtime. When we put her down, she usually just rolls over, snuggles with one of her "babies" (one of which can be seen in the chair picture), chatters to herself a bit, and goes to sleep. She usually goes to sleep with no fussing, and she usually sleeps through the night (11 hours) and sleeps for 2 full naps (about 1.5 hours each).

She now has her 8 center teeth (4 on top, 4 on bottom). I kind of miss the gap-tooth smile that she had for a while, but of course she still slays me with every smile.

She's still a really good eater... Well, I guess that depends on what one means by "good" eater:

She's not saying too many discernible words (we've picked out "yea", "no", "hi", and "duck"), but she repeats lots of words and sometimes tries to fill in words in books and songs. And she's getting better and better at letting us know what she wants. She points to her high chair when she's hungry, she brings us her bedtime books when she's tired, she points to the door when she wants to go outside. This one means "Mommy, pick me up and put me on this thing!"

She understands more and more, too. She responds to a lot of different questions and instructions. She's even getting better at learning from admonishments. When she does something she's not supposed to, we usually wag our fingers and say "no no no" or "tsk tsk" and explain what she's not supposed to do. When she's in a situation where she's tempted to do something that she's not supposed to, she will often look at the object of temptation and say "no no no" or wag her finger at it, as though she needs the extra help to overcome the impulse. It's pretty darned precious.

She's a real sweetheart. She runs up to us and gives us hugs and kisses, and she's such a little snuggler. The other day, I was laying on the floor playing with her, and she came over and rested her head on mine:

Of course she gives us a hard time sometimes, but she's just generally a very sweet and happy kid: