19 months

I missed Molly's 18 month update, so we will just call it a 19 month update.

We went for her wellness check earlier this week and here's where she stands:

Head- 90th percentile 

Weight- 30th percentile (about 23lbs)

Length- 60th percentile (I don't remember the number)

She is growing and learning all the time. She is smart and can follow commands, but doesn't talk very well yet.

She knows where the crayons, pencils, coloring books, paper and notebooks are and she LOVES to get them out and color or draw. And, she only draws on paper- never on anything that she shouldn't. And, she holds the crayons/pencils with her left hand. It's a little early to determine if she will actually be a lefty or not though.

She put Caitlin's jacket on one day, it was pretty huge. She doesn't usually put on anyone else's clothes and she DOES NOT like dress-ups yet (she cries if I try to put any on her) but......

.......she loves shoes and will put on her own shoes, or anyone else's she can find. She loves it.

She can go little jobs like helping clean up, throw things away, open the garage door,getting out the hair stuff and she has recently started helping set the table. She feels so important when I hand her things to put on the table.

This day she was playing peek-a-boo in her high chair. She loves to say "peek-boo!!"

She pushes the strollers round and round the room with the babies in them. But that is really all the interaction she has with the babies at this point.

She has slept this way for as long as I can remember. On her stomach with her legs pulled up underneath her. She sleeps with a duck or a dog (duck friend or lucky dog). She use to only like the duck, but now she likes either.

She's telling me to say "eeeeeeees".

 When she is eating, she will use the spoon or fork for a minute and then just use her hands. And about 1/2 way through the meal she will tip her plate up, dumping all the rest of the food off, hand me the plate, and then eat the rest off of the tray.

She likes to read books more and more all of the time. We read books everyday before her nap and before she goes to bed, and we have been doing that for months. But, now she will let me read them to her other times as well. And she is getting to where she won't rip the pages when she turns them anymore.

She says:

eeeeeees (cheese)

peek-boo (peek-a-boo)

Mama

Da-ie (Daddy)

Ah-ee (ashlee)

we can't decide what she says for Caitlin still

Boo

Hi

NO!

Weee

Whoa

Shoo (shoe)

tee or pee (please)

ma (mine or my)

pooh (poop)

an-oo (thank you)

ow (ow or ouch)

uh-oh

Yeah!!!

buh (book)

haa-ppy

baby

and she does animal sounds: a dog, sheep, coyote, cow, dinosaur or lion, and a fish face.

That's all I can think of right now.