Favorite Foods: carrots, graham crackers, fortune cookies, oranges
Newest Foods: Cookies
Sleep: She is pretty much down to one nap during the day. She sleeps at night from 7:30 to 6:15.
Size: Right around 20 pounds, although with the stomach flu she had last week, she probably lost some.
Teeth: She is cutting teeth like crazy. She has the 4 front ones all the way in. Of the next 4 fronts ones, one is halfway through, one is poking through and the other two are *this* close to coming through. She also has one of her top molars that has broken through. I hope it is OK for them to come through before all of her front teeth. That particular lateral incisor is not one of the ones that has come through yet.
Physical accomplishments: At a playground a couple of weeks ago, she pulled herself up a ladder using only her hands. She couldn’t fit the toes of her shoes in the narrow slits and was bound and determined to climb it. Kid’s got wicked delts.
Cognitive accomplishments: This must be one of those ages where they learn a ton in a hurry. I am just amazed at what she picks up and how fast. She is starting to show some interest in the toilet, so we might get her a little throne of her own to play with. It has become ritual to say, “bye bye pee pee” and “bye bye poo poo” as we flush and watch stuff spin away. I don’t think she is anywhere near using a potty, but I think she is starting to get that she uses a diaper and we use the potty for the same sort of business. She has started hiding to go poop, so that must mean that she has some sense that it is going to happen. That seems good to me, I guess.
New Words: Various body parts, various animals, various food words
She will say back lots of words, but I don’t think they are all being committed to the memory banks, though.
New Signs: cookie, cracker, fish
She learned cookie the first time I showed it to her. Shows what a little motivation can do.
Concerns:
#1 – Leaky diapers – For those of you who use disposables, any suggestions of the best kind for a tall, skinny kid? She’s fine all day, but is almost always wet in the morning. Should we try her in a size 4 even though the weight starts at 22 lbs? I’m afraid it will be ok vertically, but too loose around the legs.
#2 – Getting rid of bottles. Quinn LOVES her bottle. She is fine with a sippy cup of water, but if you put milk in it, she considers it a personal affront. We have a zillion kinds of sippys. For her to move up to the toddler room, she can have no bottles. Worst-case-scenario, we give her a bottle before school and one as soon as we pick her up. She can just be bottle-weaned at school. I just hate how dependent she is on them, though.
Try the huggies overnights – our life savers!
Or try the #4′s, OR… what we did once, when we ran out of our overnights… double up on her regular ones. two Seventh Gen’s do the trick…
Ultimately more costly, but it will work in a pinch.
we stuck Julia in size 4s when she was only 17 lbs. She’s not tall, but the 3s were leaking. Give them a try, you can really cinch them down good.
As for the sippy… Julia had the same issue. She was on her bottle until 18 months. Water or juice in a sippy was fine. Milk in a sippy was offensive. We talked her through it. Told her that she was growing up and it was time to move to a sippy cup all the time, had her help us pack her bottles away, and just made the change one day. Good luck!
Trista