15 Months Old
I have officially lost track of how old Lenore is. I was telling people in the airport that she was 14 1/2 months (which was true at the time), then I convinced myself she was already 15 months. Now I realize she is just turning 15 months. Whatever. Who's counting, anyway? ;)
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Update added 2/4/16 after her 15-month check-up:
Her stats (from the pediatrician's office):
Height: 30.88 inches [60th percentile]
Weight: 24 pounds, 15 ounces [90th percentile]
Head Size: 48 centimeters, which is smaller than a few visits ago [95th percentile]
The doctor said her head didn't shrink--rather, there must have been some wiggling at that other appointment...she lay perfectly still today. They did a recheck of her iron, and it's still hanging around the same low number. Not off the charts, low, just at the lowest end of normal. She'd refused the iron drops I was supposed to try around Thanksgiving, so I hadn't been giving her anything since then. We are now going to see if she will take a chewable multivitamin with iron because they supposedly taste better. She hated the drops from the start and spit them out--I tried to hide them in applesauce, which she refused (how do they know?!), and in OJ, which she wouldn't drink because she doesn't drink juice.
She did have to get two shots today, MMR and Chickenpox. She was such a tough girl! Didn't flinch for the first, but let out one wail and a few tears for the second, then was fine. I'm not sure when we go back--it's either at 18 months or 2 years. We will see the cardiologist again in July-ish, one year from our previous appointment. The dr. said she didn't hear any sort of a murmur today, so that's fantastic!
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What she's doing this month:
- She had another ear infection a few weeks ago, so we went in to have it rechecked after the antibiotics (to make sure it went away), and it was on its way out (one ear still had some fluid). She has a 15 month check-up coming up in the next few weeks, so hopefully everything checks out fine then, as well.
- Sleep is good. She sleeps overnight from 7:30-7ish, and she's working on consolidating her naps from 2 to 1. Some days she takes two shorter naps, and some days she takes a 3+ hour nap right in the middle of the day. If it's a 2-nap day, sometimes her second nap is creeping too close to bedtime, so I'll probably start to try to get her to just nap midday or right after lunch, going forward. We'll see--depends on the day.
- Eating is still going well. She still isn't big on avocado (too slimy) or hot dogs, but most everything else, she's very enthusiastic about. She is starting to show interest in feeding herself with a spoon, so we've started practicing with oatmeal this past week.
- She is not drinking milk, and the pediatrician said that's ok (when we were in for her ear infection a few weeks ago). She said some kids just don't have a taste for it, but to keep offering it sporadically, and she will eventually drink it. I just have to make sure she's getting other forms of calcium, which she is.
- She has started shaking her head when we ask her a question, which is adorable and hilarious. The only way she shakes is side-to-side, though, so she says 'No' to everything we ask, even though we're pretty sure she means to say 'Yes.' She'll get there--it's totally cute.
- We flew to Boise a few weeks ago to see my sister and her family, and the plane rides went as well as one can expect from a
crazylively toddler. There was crying and screaming, there was a poopy diaper onboard, there was kicking and bucking out of my arms, but we survived. I was so thankful to have my mom there to help me with Lenore while my dad helped with Lewis (Lew was an old pro). - She runs and climbs with excitement. She can even hike up her leg and get on the couch if I'm there for her to grab onto to pull herself up that last little bit. She gets down from the couch safely, for the most part (on her belly, feet first), but stairs have become an issue. I was trying to teach her to stay on her belly and go down feet first, but she hasn't caught on. Rather, she climbs up to the top, turns around, and tries to just walk down like a grown-up. It's terrifying, and it needs to stop while I'm home by myself. She has figured out that she can move aside our temporary gate (a couple of storage totes), so I have ordered and plan to install proper baby gates on the top and bottom of the stairs. Even though they might not be there for long, I need the peace of mind to know she is safe and secure on each floor of the house.
- She loves books! Still the touch and feel ones, lift the flap, and anything sparkly.
- She really loves Mickey and Minnie Mouse! She will find a DVD and point to one of them and say something, and then giggles when I say, 'Mickey! Minnie!' Some of her diapers have them, as well, so she loves pointing at those.
- As far as speaking, she seems to say 'Bah!' a lot. Lewis was 'Dah,' she is 'Bah.' Other words are:
- Wa-wa for water.
- Bah-bah for bottle (of water or milk).
- Buh-buh for Bubba Lew.
- Bah for banana, bed, book, blanket, but also coat, shoes, socks (and most everything else).
- Muh-muh-muh for more (I think).
- Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma for Mama.
- I guess we use context clues to figure out her various forms of Bah. :) Beyond that, she does a lot of grunting and pointing and is getting her point across to us somehow. She's not really saying much, usually.
- She is officially weaned, as of January 4th. I didn't really plan on it--I had a meeting the 5th that lasted until bedtime, so I planned to rush home to do our bedtime routine. When I called Kevin to check in, he said that he'd already put her to bed and that she was going to sleep! The next night, I was doing bedtime solo, but I went ahead and subbed in a couple of books instead of nursing, and she went to sleep. It has just continued after that, so it felt kind of unexpected, not knowing that the last time was really the LAST time. Ever. It feels strange, but I am so happy that I was able to stay with it for Lenore and for Lewis. My old, beat-up nursing pillow already went away with the trash, which was bittersweet (we'd been through so much!). It feels nice to be done, though.
- She's had some dry skin the past few weeks, so I've been putting lotion on her at times. She cackles and loves it, and it cracks me up.
- Also cold weather-related, she loves her coat! She loves to wear it around the house, she loves to carry it around at school (and at home). One particularly crazy night, I'd changed a leaky diaper and left her pants off (since it was almost bath/bedtime), but kept the coat on, so she had dinner in her coat and a diaper.
- She also loves her new shoes--I was having trouble keeping some hand-me-downs on her because she could undo the velcro too easily, so I decided to get some new ones when it was really, really cold a few weeks ago. She LOVES them. At first, she'd march around the house in them, so proudly.
- I finally cut the back of her hair right before we left for Boise. It was looking pretty mullet-ish, so I just wanted to get rid of a few of the longer sections and leave the top and sides to grow out. I cut across, horizontally, but next time I'll go in with little snips vertically, instead. There were a few obvious hack marks when I was finished. ;)
- School continues to go well. She has moved to a different morning of the week from last fall, so she's in with two other babies instead of just one. I think it's going well, though I bet the teacher has her hands full!
- She is wearing 18 months clothing, but I went through her 24 months/2T winter stuff the other day to see if anything will fit her. We seem to wear the same 3 or 4 outfits over and over, so I think it's time to spruce it up a little.
- Current Tooth Count: 12
