but, i do realize it's been quite sometime since i've posted a what we're doing/stats kind of blog.
so here we go:
we had our 18 month well-check yesterday and much to my surprise...
our little joybird is in the 56th percentile for height and 33rd for weight!!!! can you believe it? trey and i aren't the tallest of people and our little bird is tracking ABOVE average! It makes me so happy. she does get plenty of z's and, as you well know if you've hung with her, PLENTY of food.
her communication has kicked up a notch. she's building her little vocab daily with dadda still being one of her favorites. ella is rapidly climbing the charts...anytime we get in the car it's ella ella ella ella ella ella all the way until we finally see her. anyway, she has a handful of words and another handful of attempted words. it's so fun when she comes out with something new!
she's going through a serious "do it myself" stage. she has to be the one to buckle herself into her highchair, carseat, stroller (and don't even mention "do you want me to help you"..she does NOT want your help!) she tries to change her own diaper, and everyone else's diaper. be careful, she is known to come up to grown adults and try to lay them down and change their diapers. yikes!! after she's attempted to change puppy, bunny, baby, and tiny's dipes, she comes after me and i have to say "joy, mommy wears big girl panties, i don't need my diaper changed. thanks". she, of course, has to dress herself and put on her shoes...all by herself. and lets out this big gasp of excitement, sometime coupled with clapping, everytime she accomplishes something.
below = changing monkey's diaper and a failed attempt at putting on her shirt.
she's starting to get picky about what she wears. so i've kind of been letting her pick out her own clothes. i'll tell her, "go put on a pair of pants and a shirt. and i'll walk in her room and she'll be putting on a pair of pants and a shirt. typically, this size 6-12 month sing.love.dance tshirt with sparkles that she just can't seem to get enough of (pictured above)...and of course, her favorite skinny jeans.
things she enJOY's doing at home--
puzzles, coloring (she loves to color and write her name with our help), pretend cooking, pretend feeding piper, puppy, tiny, bunny, baby. changing all their diapers, changing all their clothes. pretending to put on mommy's make up, blow dry her hair, jumping up and down on the couch, asking "up, up, up" to get on the bed and jump (she's seriously going to be that little monkey that fell off and bumped her head-- i can feel it coming). rearranging all items in the refrigerator, playing chase and hide-n-seek with piper, throwing her ball, or running with it and playing keep-away, pushing baby around in her stroller, trying to put piper in the stroller, stopping off to the potty for a "potty-break", people watching out the window, reading books, asking mommy to read her books...reading to puppy, she sits puppy in her lap, puts a blanket over both of them, and reads to him (she's basically copying what i do)...seems to be a common theme.
she's really into MUSIC, dancing, the d*mn itzy bitzy spider song....every time it ends, she says "again!" so i typically repeat it several times, and when i'm over it and say "no, lets hear a different song", she marches over and pushes the ipod back button herself.
this video sums up a few of her favorite things... dancing, eating, taunting piper with food, and jumping on the couch.... and please note her attempt to count her fingers at the very end. ha!
her personality:
super affectionate...wants to hug and kiss everyone, and loves to be cuddled and held, unbelievably determined and focused...will sit and work toward accomplishing tasks with such patience until she gets it...it blows our mind. and i just love watching her light up when the mission is accomplished. she looks up at me with these brights eyes and waits for my affirmation.
she loves to please! she will pretty much do what we ask her. and always feels so good about doing it right.
oh, and did i ever show you this little gem? taken soon after i found out we were pregs
and this is what she put on for church a few sunday's back....trey and i were getting ready and we look down and, there's joy.
hair tie on the wrist. check! panties around the waist. mom's gold flats. dad's hospital no-slip sock. lovedancesing size way-too-small tshirt. CHECK!!
last sunday she made a little friend in nursery. we couldn't separate these two. they ran around the gym holding hands for about 10 straight minutes.
and then joy attempted a hug that turned into a tackle so i swiftly stepped in and played that mom-card...that i find quite hilarious because, at this stage in the game, there's this awkward learning curve of being a first-time-mom where you're like "how the h*ll am i supposed to respond in all of these situations??!! kids stealing toys, not wanting to share, learning to take turns, joy attempting to change other kids diapers!! what?!?! and your on-display before all these other moms and it's typically involving their kids too... the whole thing is kind of hilarious to me.
anyway, that's a wrap. 18 months and climbing fast. before we know it she'll be 2!!! and before that, we'll have evelyn in our arms. oh my goodness! time is flying and i can barely keep up!
signing off,
mama jules
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