Thursday, September 13, 2012

18 Months

M's stats at 18 months:
Weight 22.8 lbs, 38%tile
Height 29 3/4", 15%tile (lil' shortie)
Head Circumference 19 1/2", >97%tile (full on toddler, huh?!?) 

M at one year:
Weight 19.03 lbs, 36%tile
Height 29.5", 60%tile
Head Circumference 19.5", 99.82%tile

Either she hasn't grown much or our one year measurements were a bit off.  I guess it should come as no surprise that she likely not be very tall.  We're definitely having a ton of fun with her at her current stage of development.  She's saying a lot of words and even some short sentences.  Most would probably be indistinguishable to anyone but us.  It's pretty cool though because J understands her as well as we do.  At times he even talks like her.  She eats a lot and insists on doing so at the table.  Most of the time she stands.  So far she has been pretty steady, but it is a bit unnerving.  She loves Tua except when his tail hits her in the face.  She's also really into books.  She loves bringing them to bed with her.  We'll hear her upstairs talking to herself and I'm certain that she's looking at the books.  There's one boy in particular that she always likes to point to.  She's very independent/capable as well.  Just today in the car she took off her shoes and socks and had them on her hands doing what looked like hand puppets.  She also can dress herself to some extent.  That's something she even has J beat on.  Probably her biggest accomplishment is that she's very, very interested in using the potty.  A month or so ago she was diagnosed with a UTI.  We were sent home with a pee catcher and we needed to get a larger sample.  I was a bit skeptical, but I put it in the toilet and put the potty seat on top with our not even one and a half year old on it.  Within seconds she peed!  Since then she's used the potty an average of 2 or 3 times a day.  She signals she needs to go by stomping.  It's pretty exciting to have her interested so early.  We love her!        




1 comment:

Liz D. said...

So fun to hear about her. Such a cutie.