You guys, I have a 15 month old!
I’m not sure how or when that happened but it happened. During Gracie’s first year I felt like
time flew… now I feel as though we live our lives in worpspeed. This kid of ours says new words, learns
a ton of new things and does totally off the wall funny stuff every single
day. It’s nuts! As promised, I am going to do my best
to write a follow up “18 Months of Gracie” and a “21 Months of Gracie” post
leading up to our gals second birthday.
I figure that while I may not have the time to document her monthly
development as I did during her first year, I can totally commit to tracking
her development at least every three months. Sorry in advance for the long post… :)
The stinker playing hide-and-seek @ 14 months!
To my Gracie girl, so much has happened since I last wrote a monthly
post about you that I don’t even know where to begin. I think it would be easiest if mama grouped your updates, so
here goes.
Associations: You can now identify 11 of your body parts and you’ve been doing this
for almost two months now! You can
identify your head, mouth, eyes, ears, tongue, nose, belly, toes, legs, hands
and feet. Mama has been trying to
get all of this on video for the past month but to get you to hold still and
show me all 11 is impossible. A
few weeks ago I was able to get most on video. You’re such a little smarty pants!
New words: book (boo), bath, yeah, tent, Dora, cat, ice, fish (fshhh), duck, light
(ligh) ball, thank you (thannn), bye, sky, love you (yayou), night (nigh), which
is what you say at bedtime, mouth (mou), hat, up, please (peas), yay, ouch, eye, head, wow, out, apple,
happy (hapa).
This is in addition to: mama, dog
(dough), mom (mum), brush (rush), hot, bottle, yum, water, hi, uh-oh and papa
(food), which are the words you started saying around your first birthday.
Communication: your verbal communication continues to
develop everyday. In the past
month you’ve begun to imitate more and more of the animals we read about. You can buzz like a bee, tweet like a
bird, moo like a cow, bark like a dog, growl like a bear and you can shriek
like a monkey! Mama was able to
catch some of your animal sounds on video.
You LOVE: your tent, morning cartoons (especially Dora), bath time, taking "drives" around the neighborhood in your Cozy Coupe, your stuffed bunny, going to the
park with grandma & grandpa, playing with mommy’s iPad/iPhone, watering the roses with mama, feeding
the doggies with mommy, bananas, blowing bubbles, using a fork to eat (you
refuse to eat without one), your box of books, peas and carrots, swimming, your
wagon and Mia. You love all your
cousins but you are obsessed with Mia!
Signs: now that words are becoming your main way of communicating, we’re
seeing you sign less often. Some
signs that you still use are, “all done”, “more” and “water”.
These are your absolute favorite books right now:
New developments: You no longer walk, you RUN!
You also climb on everything, all the time. Your mamas have had to baby proof every drawer and cabinet and
install a permanent baby gate because you get into everything. You’re such a curious little gal. You also have a new bottom tooth and a
MOLAR! Mama couldn’t believe it
when I spotted your top molar.
This brings your total number of teeth to ten.
Growth stats: at our last doctor visit you weighed in at 22.5 pounds. You now wear a size 4 shoe and you’re
still fitting in your 12-18 month clothing with the exception of a few 12 month
tops. You’re still wearing a size
large cloth diaper and I think you’ll be in that size until you potty train.
Speaking of potty training, this is one of the exciting things you’ve
been up to these past 3 months.
Mama and mommy aren’t pushing the potty on you too much, we’re just
trying to sit you on the potty at least once a day so you can start to get used
to it. So far you’ve peed in your
big girl potty twice! This made us
so proud so there has been lots of celebrating.
We’re also having so much fun with your hair! Now that it’s longer we’ve been able to have fun with
different styles. Even grandma
Grace and Nani have gotten in on the action. I’ve got to hand it to grandma Grace though. I showed her how I style your hair just
once and she has done so many adorable hair-dos on her own since.
There aren’t a whole lot of other things that I can think of that have
happened since mama’s last monthly post for you aside from the novel I just
wrote... ha! You did take your second flight for our summer vacation, OH and you got the “all-clear” at your 13 month check-up with your plastic
surgeon, Dr. C! This was the best
news because it meant you would not need any additional reconstruction of your
lip in the next year, yay!
Other than Nani and grandma Grace, I’m not sure that anyone is still
reading this marathon of a post at this point. For those who are, thanks for keeping up with the happenings
of our little gal. It really is
amazing what all can take place in 3 short months, sheesh!
Happy 15 months to our beautiful Gracie. Your moms LOVE YOU as high as the sky
and as deep as the sea. Xo, mama
Summer Bucket List: Take 15 month pictures - check!