Rachel here. Last Thursday Reese had her one year appointment. It ended up actually being her 1 year, 1 month, 1 day appointment, but I digress. She's doing wonderfully. I'm not sure of the percentages, but she weighed in at 22 lbs 3 oz and was 31 1/2 inches tall. She's still in the upper percentages for her height and head circumference. Her weight is the same scenario but not as high. She's just so active it's hard to keep weight on her. There is no change in her umbilical hernia sadly. Doc said if it's not closed by the time she is 2, he'll be referring her for surgery. We'll cross that bridge once we get there though. He says everything else is developing nicely and she's right on target.
Butter bean is still a fantastic sleeper. Bedtime at 7... up between 7 and 8 these days. It's always a little hairy retraining her when Daylight Savings happens, but we made it through with little to no difficulty this time. Hopefully our Christmas trip to Iowa will be as smooth. I bumped her down to 1 nap during the day. This was super successful for about 2 weeks, then she started to have more and more meltdowns in the morning, so back to 2 we went. No tears lost here. :) She sometimes likes to party a little more before her afternoon nap. She'll sign that she's sleepy, so up we go... not wasting any time. She's been known to fall right asleep or the ever popular... "I'm gonna party up here for about 2 hours until you come and get me... don't mind me!" The latter results in an earlier bedtime of course.
Speaking of signing/language... she's getting to be quite the communicator. There are always some kind of "words" coming out of her mouth. If she's playing with something she shouldn't be, we take it away from her and say 'no'. She then goes into a 5 minute long rant in her freaky baby language... babbling... facial expressions... raising her voice... the whole nine yards. In English she can say mama, dada, hi, "duh" for duck, "doe" for dog, she says dada for bye (which breaks Bryan's heart), and she's into saying "me" when she wants something or more of something. Along with those few words she can sign sleepy, hungry, milk, more, all done, bye, and she's constantly pointing at things to learn what they are. She's also still doing her famous growling every time she sees Cookie Monster. :)
She'll eat anything you put in front of her, which is awesome. I have learned though that she's not a fan of her diced apples, which if that's the only thing she hates right now... we'll take it. The cross over to whole milk was a breeze; in fact she'd drink it all day if you let her. She's been using her sippy cup strictly for about a month and a half now. I think it's safe to say she loves it. She also loves to hide it. I'm always asking her where her milk is and she throws her arms up in the air and looks around for it. So sweet.
Some of her favorite things to play with are her car ball pit... she can easily destroy a room in under 2 minutes in that thing, macaroni noodles, water, her plastic food, all of her musical instruments, and her books. She's also began to fancy our empty cereal boxes. You wouldn't believe all the stuff you can actually fit into one of those things. Digging in the cupboards and drawers is also one of her favorite past times. I must wash the same pots and pans without actually using them more times than I can count. She's definitely a handful.
We've started putting up some Christmas decorations in the house. I'm hoping that if we do it a little bit at a time she won't notice. :) So far... so good!
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