Autumn at 15 months

Autumn at 15 months!

July 17-August 17 2013

Here is my little tiny butting toddler at 15 months! I look back at these pictures and think, wow she has already grown so much in just 2 months. I know, I've been a bit behind in the blogosphere, with work, and everything else. I've missed writing about her, I feel like I have missed so many things to write down, but here I am! Not forgetting one single picture. I hope she appreciates this someday! I'm trying to figure out what I should do. Use the pictures to make a book, make a book using my blog? So many options. It would be nice to have it all printed out for her sometime. For now, on the blog it remains.

Autumn had an excellent 15 month check-up! She is doing great and around the 60th percentile for height and weight. As you can see, she weighed in at about 22 pounds, 9 ounces. 

Autumn caught the virus molluscum contagiosum this year. Such a a nasty little virus! They are small little wart/pimples that started on her arm and spread up to her chest, chin, and back. They are slowly going away, but for a while there they were very noticeable and everyone was so concerned. 

Love my little 15 month old. She has grown so much since her 1st birthday!

Daddy and Autumn playing outside on the swings. 

A lot of these pictures are so candid, which is why I love them so much. Just catching her in her element, without a care in the world! She is such an adventurous little girl. Always exploring and looking for new toys to play with. Trying to find anything new to manipulate and figure out. She loves bottles and anything that has lids. 

She loves to eat fruit snacks and olives!

Here we are at The Peppermint Place in American Fork. Cool shades Auters!

One of the first times she tried out a big girl swing. She loved it! Very hesitant at first, but as soon as she got on she was having so much fun!

On another day we visited grandma and grandpa Harper in Logan. Love Autumn's little sun hat! I'm so grateful she still has great grandparents alive, that are able to know her and love her.

More swing time! She loves to swing so much. She let's me know she's done when she says "all done" and starts waving her hands.

For a while there she would put on any shoe she could find and walk around the house with them on. She got pretty good at it! She loves trying on grandma's sparkly high heel shoes and will wear them all around the house.

During her 15th month William, Travis, and Katie came to visit. We went to the splash park at the Riverwoods. Autumn loves the water! But she was mostly interested in opening the doors to the other restaurants! 

I love this picture on the left of her just chillin' in her carseat and holding her sippy cup of milk. She loves her milk so much and drinks a TON of it!

Here they are at Provo Recreation Center. We had the best time there with the Browns. Spencer took Autumn down the giant slide and she loved it. We all got brave and did it! 

Another day we headed up to Monte Cristo for a reunion and for a quick visit with the Browns.

Autumn LOVES suckers. They are a life saver when she is fussy and needs a quick fix.

She and her cousin were so cute together!!

One of my FAVORITE pictures! Love that beautiful, innocent, loving face. So full of life, love, and purity. I can't wait to see how you grow up and change the world. You are my life!

Uncle Travis with the two little munchkins. I love Autumn's chubby face on the right. She still is a chunker!

She loves to play outside and get into the rocks. 

Playing house is also a favorite! She enjoys opening and closing doors to ovens and microwaves. She pretends to cook and put water in things. She is just so cute! Someday it will be fun to teach her how to cook. She is already a great little helper.

Not a fearful bone in her body. She will try anything and never complains. Such a trooper, which is a good thing with parents that like to get out and do adventurous things. 

Another FAVORITE picture of the summer!

On the left: Autumn helping me at my school organize all the equipment. She loved playing with all the sports equipment! It was sure fun having there. She has been there several times with me getting things done.
On the right: Hiding from mom and popping her face out for a quick smile! 

Pigtails. After this day I really started to learn how to do her hair in cute pigtails and bows. It's finally starting to grow big enough to be able to do something with. I thought this was so cute!

I bought her a baby girl from the store and she LOVED her so much! She is so gentle and sweet. She knows just what to do!

Playing with the toys at grandma's house.

On one of the last days of the summer, we headed up to Liberty Park with Grandma Bagley and had the most amazing and fun time. There were so many cute and little things for Autumn to do there. 

Here she is on the car ride! It was pretty bumpy, but she made it safely. And she had the BIGGEST grin! It's moments like this that I love for as a mom!

Carousel ride. She had a blast!

Sno cone face!

This was her FAVORITE. The airplanes! An even bigger grin was on her face here!

  

Lastly, we went on a paddle boat ride. It was a very hot day. I enjoyed my summer with her so much. Having days off of work for 3 months, waking up with nowhere to be but at home with Autumn. I felt like we bonded really well and got to know each other more. I love you so much baby girl Autumn! Thank you for lighting up my world each and every day!