
Sixteen things from the last two months. Why? Tomorrow, my smallest kid turns sixteen months old, and frankly, that just makes me more acutely aware of that I have been a huge slacker about chronicling her early years (well, year plus a few months). I've blogged less, scrapbooked not at all, and I don't even keep a notebook where I jot down each month's milestones (like what did for Kid 1.0, of course). I do have plenty of photos, which I guess I should be pleased about, but those images only capture a little bit of Sadie. Anyway, so I don't forget:
1. She's been a fan of baths, showers, pools, buckets of water for washing the floor, and water in general for most of her life, but now her favourite thing to do when she finds herself with water to play in is fill a cup, and then dump it out, re-fill and re-dump, rinse and repeat ...
2. Her favourite book, hands down, is Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb. I love it. I love it because I remember my mom and dad reading it to me when I was small, and it was also Madeline's favourite book for awhile (she actually slept with it).
3. Her new pair of 18-24 month-size Pediped shoes arrived this month, to replace the 12-18 month-sized ones that she managed to out-grow in THREE short months.
4. Sadie was 10.3 kg (22.7 lbs) and 80.5 cm tall (nearly 32 inches) at her 15-month well-baby check-up at Bumrungrad.
5. We acquired a fitball for our home this month, and Sadie thinks it's really fun to bounce on it, and will emulate the things that she sees Chris do on the fitball on her little 8-inch yellow play ball.
6. I am sure that in her fifteenth month, Sadie has eaten her weight in frozen blueberries. She started to shun the probiotics-laden baby oatmeal that I like to serve with fruit, though.
7. She is trying to talk more. Sadie will push her toy cars across the floor and makes a vroom-like sound effect, and I've observed her testing out animal sounds as well. Sometimes she'll say "ball" or "up", but Madeline could really care less about those. It's all about waiting for Sadie to say her name, of course.
8. Signing! Sadie is signing "all done" and "eat", and occasionally "more". She also has an all-purpose "gimme" gesture, which I guess counts as well. I'm rather dumb-founded that Sadie signs at all since I was a real - wait for it ..... slacker - about baby signs with my second child as well.
9. Loves to dance! She will dance to recorded music, actual live singing, even just the rhythm of hands clapping. Her moves involve bouncy deep knee bends, jaunty head-bobs, a few twirls, and lots of floaty little hands and arm flaps.
10. She has a ridiculous amount of fun with the floor-length curtains that hang in all the windows in the apartment. She will either wrap herself up in them or duck behind them, billowing out the width of the panel as she dashes to the opposite end in a game of hide-and-seek.
11. Sadie had a great time when my parents were here to visit. I don't recall my dad ever turning down Sadie's request to be held or picked up, so they were fast buddies. I know that my mom wasn't very comfortable sitting on the floor to play with her, but I saw them hunkered down on the rug plenty of times, and Sadie had a lot of fun inventing games with tiny packets of sugars that they could play together.
12. Sadie and Madeline play together more than I expected them to, actually, considering that Sadie is still so young and they have a 4.25-year age-gap. Maybe it's a slightly more sophicated version of parallel play when they are both hunkered down on the floor with the Little People or hanging out by the big Laugh n Learn House, but it's really lovely that they want each other's company.
13. Sadie rocks Peekaboo Barn. I tell myself that the only reason that Sadie ever touches my iPod Touch is because we're stuck in a car somewhere in a Bangkok traffic jam, just so I feel better about introducing her to technology at the tender age of fourteen months.
14. Sleep has just been going downhill ever since she turned four months old. She still wakes up numerous times at night. Last week it was about every twenty minutes unless I was directly beside her (she was sick, which gets her slightly off-the-hook). She's even more sadistic about sleep than her sister was.
15. She hasn't repeated her little "escape from the crib" act, thank goodness. I've only recently become comfortable putting her in it when she's not totally asleep.
16. Hurrah for receptive language. My kid is happy to oblige requests for hug, kisses, or respond to "Sadie, get your shoes!", "Where is Madeline? Let's find her!", and probably understands ten times more than I actually give her credit for.
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