15 months And She's A Whole Lot Of Mischievous...

Today Catherine is 15 months and in the last week, she's really come into her own when it comes to being mischievous...

This is what she did to our dining room chair this morning while I was doing the breakfast dishes...

Lucky that chair is a write off anyway... It has had a gazillion things spilled on it... so some extra decoration is really no big deal.... but to prevent this kind of artwork appearing on our walls, all textas now live on top of the fridge.

This week she's also discovered the world of the kitchen pantry, drawers and cupboards... She is forever opening them and taking things out of them and then leaving them randomly around the house... I have found a roll of glad wrap, sponges, plastic containers and aprons lying in the middle of the lounge room... She has also found plastic microwave containers and brought them up to me and given them to me as if they were presents (aren't I lucky?).

She found cooking chocolate in the pantry while I was doing dishes the other day ... I was wondering why she had gone all quiet... turned around and she had 2 big chunks of chocolate in each hand and there were teeth marks in each piece! She got rather annoyed when I took it away from her!

She loves taking laundry out of the basket and throwing it around everywhere... often wearing it around her neck... The other day, I was cleaning a spill with a tea towel... one minute the tea towel was there, the next minute she had wandered off with it and decided it was an awesome fashion accessory, when thrown over the shoulder like this:





She's also finally stopped being a bogan and will walk wearing shoes now... It's been a bit of a struggle because previously everytime I put her in shoes she would just sit down and look helpless instead of walking... and if you didn't take the shoes off, she would take them off herself. But basically a trip to Harbourtown last weekend, where shoe wearing was not optional since we were outdoors and she got used to the idea and wanted her freedom... so now she's off and toddling around in shoes... She only has 2 pairs, so I can finally look at getting her some more shoes...





She still steals food from us at every opportunity... and now does it when you're not looking... Elizabeth had prepared herself a pancake yesterday morning (butter with a sprinkling of sugar)... then went to the toilet, came out and watched a snippet of TV before returning to the table to find that there was only 1/4 of a piece of pancake... There was outrage in Elizabeth's voice when she exclaimed "Hey?! Where did my pancake go?"... Then a quick look around to see Catherine happily sitting on the rug watching TV munching one of piece of pancake in her mouth and a piece in each hand... "Mum!!!! Catherine stole my pancake!!!" Yes, guilty as charged... there was no denying that Catherine had managed to reach up to the table, and had swiped 3 pieces of pancake straight from the plate!

She's starting to make some cute sounds at the moment... She can say "Taaaa" very clearly (and uses it to her advantage... she's realised she generally gets what she wants when she says it because it is so cute!)... She waves hello and says "Hi" ... waves goodbye and says "Deee" (her version of bye... and in vietnamese "di" mean go)... When she drops thing she says "uh oh"... She tries to tell me stuff all the time... I wish I knew what she was really saying to me.. I'm sure it's fascinating...

So much cheekiness, cleverness and mischievousness from our munchkin... Elizabeth was never this cheeky, so it's a whole new world for us! She gives us so many laughs every day...