All About Ellen, June & Frances: JEB: 15 Months Old!

June turned 15 months old on June 15! Our little Bug is doing great, but boy is she FIESTY! We've decided that the best word to describe June is "intense" because every emotion she expresses is to an extreme. If she's happy/silly, she's really happy/silly. If she's mad or frustrated, she's really mad or really frustrated. Needless to say, this intensity can be either super fun or super challenging depending on June's mood. :) Aside from displaying a lot of ... ahem ... passion, June is doing swell as of late. She's literally running all over the place and her sense of curiosity keeps her busy opening cabinets and rummaging through just about anything she can get her hands on. Here's what else our fiery little redhead has been up to:

Talking a little bit more. Recent additions to JB's vocab include "hi", "cah" (car), "cacka" (cracker), "mowh" (meow), "ah-ah-ah" (monkey sound), "Boppa" and "bubble."
Sliding. June enjoys the toddler-size slides at our local playgrounds, but she wants NOTHING to do with a swing of any sort. She freaks out if she's within 10 feet of a swing, which is odd since she absolutely loved swings last summer. I'm hoping she gets over this phobia soon, because I can only lift her to the top of the toddler slides so many times in a single outing to the park.
Dancing. June still loves "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse" and has a few signature moves (marching in place and spinning in circles) during the opening theme song and "Hotdog" dance. This usually results in extreme dizziness and stumbling into nearby furniture, which apparently June finds hilarious.
Organizing/shuttling cups. June's favorite (and most accessible) cabinet is the one that houses all the kid cups and plates. June will spend serious chunks of time taking cups out one-by-one and lining them up in various locations throughout the house. Once she's done, she'll move them one-by-one to a different location and so on and so on ...
Weaning? Maybe? June is slowly ~~quitting~~ being cut off from her morning and bedtime nursing sessions. At this point, it's just habitual because she certainly can't be satiating any thirst this way ... We're still working on increasing June's fondness for cow's milk; it's a work in progress.
Eating varying amounts of food: Some days June is nothing but a picker; other days you can't get food in front of her fast enough. Fail-safe options seem to be yogurt, blueberries, fruit pouches and any shape of pasta smothered in red sauce. (Also, June recently sampled her first-ever mini donut and she was in heaven!)
Still wearing a combo of 6-12 month and 12-18 month tops and 3-6 month shorts. (Poor girl needs some hips to keep her pants up!). Still in a size 4 shoe, but I should probably get around to having her feet professionally sized. And she's still wearing size 3 diapers.
June goes to the doctor in a few weeks for a checkup where we'll get her official stats, but I think she weighs about 20 pounds.