I can not believe in one month this little girl is going to be a year old! How does time go so fast!! She is now 16 lbs and 27 inches tall. Her hair has started growing although it's so light colored and fine you still have a hard time seeing it. She is still wearing 6 month cloths although I think before she's a year old she'll be up to 6/9 month. She is also still wearing size 2 diapers.
This girl is becoming quite the little firecracker. She hit a mental developmental jump just a few days ago and now thinks she needs to state her opinion if something isn't to her liking. Especially when it comes to Jacob. If she doesn't want him around her she gets upset and starts yelling and crying. Especially if he comes between me and her. She also has starting looking at books and
pointing to the pictures. It's the cutest! She also gets really mad if you are trying to keep her from touching something and she wants to be touching that something. She also likes to complain to you if you do something to her that she doesn't like. And her face is so cute! She scrunches up her face, closes her eyes and purses her lips. I have a hard time not laughing when she's complaining to me. She is also a little goof ball. She does the funniest things and loves getting reactions out of people. If you laugh... She keeps performing. She has also become quite the chatter box and just loves making noise all day long. Ida is going to be walking before a year I'm pretty positive. She really wants to walk and loves standing on her own more and more every day.
She took her first step just over a week ago and now will take up to 3 steps while keeping her balance. She has even walked a few steps then stopped and remained standing. She just really has a lot of motivation to walk. As soon as she gets better with the balance she is going to be off! About 5 days ago she walked from the recliner to the couch (about 3 steps) all by herself. The first step was very controlled... The other two may have been more of a fall stepping. But she did it with no one around her which is a big step! She also loves pushing around the walker as long as she has someone to turn it around for her when she reaches the end of the room.Ida has started signing all done, nodding and shaking her head and waving. I'm still not sure if she knows what nodding and shaking her head mean... But she likes to do it when you ask her questions. She hasn't started signing any other words yet but we keep working with her. One of Ida's favorite things to do right now is pull all the books off the shelf. She can open cupboards but isn't super interested in them so doesn't spend a lot of time pulling things out of them. She hasn't discovered that there is water in the toilet yet or how to open the lid and I'm trying to keep it that way as long as possible. Although she has discovered how much fun pulling all the toilet paper off the roll is.....
She also loves throwing all the bath toys from their bin back into the tub. A couple other things she really likes right now is playing with velcro (this means Jacob's shoes mostly) and being chased. Especially up the stairs. She is starting to catch on to not wanting to be caught. She also really loves to eat paper.... I hate it. It's like she seeks it out and it goes straight to her mouth every time. Also her word comprehension has really started to expand. She know who mom, dad, Jacob and Cricket are. As well as a bunch of other words that she shakes or nods her head to... Again... I don't really know if she understands what she is doing.....
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| Tiny mouth |
I have officially stopped breastfeeding. I stopped shortly after Ida turned 10 months because I just wasn't producing milk anymore. The transition to formula full time was a not a smooth one. Ida was already so hit and miss with it. And shortly after I started she decided she wasn't going to drink it at all anymore. We prob threw away a whole container of formula because she wouldn't drink it. It was very frustrating. Fortunately this only lasted about a week and now she is drinking it very well. She's drinking 13-15 oz a day which I think is a little low... But we take whatever we can get. Currently I give her 4 oz in the morning and 3 oz before lunch, before dinner and then before she goes to bed. She is pretty much eating everything now. We started her on peanut butter and honey sandwiches and she is loving them. She's also been drinking whole milk here and there from Jacob's left overs. Getting her to eat veggies is pretty difficult but I keep trying.
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| When dad's in charge of pajamas... |
Ida does not do well with teething... Especially her sleeping. Although she currently doesn't have any more teeth, her top two teeth will soon be breaking through. They are swollen, red and bulging. Off and on she will randomly wake up during the night and not go back to sleep anywhere from 1 to 3 hours and all she wants to do is cuddle. Not ideal for me.... Other than when she is teething she is sleeping through the night and it's great! It's really cute because when she is tired or going to sleep she likes to stick or finger or thumb in her pacifier while she sucks on it. But... If you are trying to give her her pacifier when she wants something else that is not ok. She just throws it. She's done that for awhile now. Ida is going to bed around 8:30 and getting up around 7:30. She is taking two naps a day. Her first nap is at 11 am and her second nap is around 3 to 4 pm.
