- Is down to 2 bottles a day, although she's still stubborn when it comes to drinking milk from a cup, so sometimes I cave & give her one mid-day. I can usually force a few sips down her from the cup but she rarely wants to do it herself. I've started moving the bedtime bottle up to dinner time so she can get used to going to bed without a bottle. Eventually I will just replace that one with a cup & I guess she'll just have to learn that's her only option or she won't get milk.
- Is done with formula, and instead drinks straight whole milk! (Saves us about $10 a week!)
- Sleeps 7:30pm to 7:30am usually and naps from the time she gets in the car after school at 2 until about 4 or 4:30. Naps on days off have been much better these past few weeks too and she'll even go down without a bottle or a car ride.
- Still says only a few phrases and most sound like "da." "Da" refers to a dog, "da da" can mean bye bye, and "da" can also mean "that." She says something that sounds like "ah me," which means either "give me the paci" or "pick me up." She recently started saying "hi." She has learned how to point to things she wants, although most of the time she points at everything!
- Is being stubborn about walking, although she's been standing on her own for brief periods at a time these past 2 weeks. Mostly it happens when she lets go of the table or some other piece of furniture for a second before she realizes it. Then when she realizes it she gets surprised and falls down to her knees to crawl wherever she wants to go.
- Can give "high 5."
- Is really working hard at using a spoon. She has the concept down, but can't quite get the food onto her spoon and then into her mouth without the food falling off the spoon. Now she almost always wants to feed herself and if I try to feed her with the spoon, she will grab it and put it to her mouth. I can also put her food on a little plate now & she won't tip it over or throw it.
- Imitates many actions-- brushing her hair, putting on her shoes, reading a book, putting on her shirt (although she usually misses her head and ends up putting it on like a scarf), blowing her nose (really she blows out through her mouth into a tissue but she thinks she is doing the same thing Mommy & Daddy do), and blowing on her food to cool it down.
- Is apparently one of the better students in her preschool class, according to her teachers-- and she's the youngest. Many of the other kids cry a lot for mommy, but Leah usually plays happily or just enjoys watching the other kids. (She sometimes even laughs at the other kids when they're crying-- meanie!) Maybe we haven't yet reached the separation anxiety phase, or maybe we won't-- she's always loved being around other people and will comfortably go to anyone that looks interesting. As long as she's busy she has no reason to cry. Her teacher also said that even though she's about 4 months younger than most of the other kids, the only thing she can't do that they do is walk. She even did a fingerpainting last week. :)
- Really wants to be independent, but still wants to cling to Mommy & Daddy at times.
Leah & Mommy went to visit Grandma & Grandpa at the beach this weekend while Daddy was out of town.
She figured out how to crawl up the stairs, in pursuit of a beloved ball.
Leah LOVES to swing.
Let it not be said that my child has issues with low self-esteem: (Press Play & turn up sound)
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