Note: I wrote this on January 7th, but never finished it. Oh, and apparently, I have also started and not finished three other posts since then. I'll chalk it up to a sign of the times, which have been quite busy lately. Instead of attempting to finish all of these entries, which would likely take another 8 million years,, I'll just post them as-is. I'm also planning to do a huge photo update. I have a ton from 13 months on, that are just sitting in the abyss of the world wide webs. Enjoy.
In the time that's passed since I last posted a meaningful update, Autumn has become a real live kid! After a few months of subtle changes that were fun to watch, yet not quite eventful to warrant sitting down for 20-30 minutes to blog, she suddenly starting doing and learning so many new things that sitting down to blog became truly out of the question.
So where were we? Around her first birthday I believe she was still only saying 2-4 words...maybe? She went another couple of months without adding much to her vocabulary, and then over my winter break, while my parents were here to experience it, she just started talking. Not sentences, obviously, but so many new words. And such an interest in repeating everything we say. So here we go with what's new these days...
--New and improved list of words...
Ball, Dog, Nana, Pop Pop (Pa Pa), Mama (or Mommy, or Mom), Dada (daddy, dad), Wally (Wa-ee), Water (wah-er), Bath, Bye, Hi, Uh-oh, More, Door, Thank You, Snow, Banana (well, nana), Bottle (Ba-toe), No (yikes). We also think she's been saying "mine", which she usually says when she's playing with someone else's toy, and that someone else comes to play too. Not cool.
--Still busy, but as she gets taller her ability to scale more dangerous objects becomes much too easy. Her high chair? Seriously, the other day she climbed into it by herself. It's not one of those travel ones that sit on the floor or a chair, either.Today she mastered a ladder at Monkey Bizness, and then she decided that sliding down the other side wouldn't be nearly as fun as slide-jumping off of the ladder. Thank goodness for soft, forgiving floors. She was totally unfazed. Which, I am starting to fear, could become a problem. Whenever we go to places like that, or the playground, mall play area, etc., older and bigger kids sometimes do mean things like push her out of the way or stop her from climbing up things by putting their foot on her head, for instance. Autumn is never fazed by these acts of unkindness, and more than half the time she'll laugh and go back for more. We were pretty happy about this at first, but lately she seems to be trying out these bully moves on other kids, bigger and smaller than herself. It's really hard to teach a 15-month-old empathy, especially when she doesn't mind when kids do it to her. Anyone?
--Wearing mostly 18 month clothes, and size 3 or 4 diapers. Still in size 4 shoes.
--Sleeping from anywhere between 6-7:30pm to 6:30-7:30am, and mostly taking two naps, but sometimes just one.
--She has become a seriously picky eater, and I hate it. Even mac n' cheese is a crap shoot these days. Chicken nuggets? No way. Spaghetti? Yeah right. Meat of any sort? Try again. Any of these when there's ketchup to dip them in? Sure, if sucking the ketchup off and throwing the rest off her tray counts. She still loves mixed veggies, and most fruits, so at least there's that. And every once in a while she'll totally surprise us. Like yesterday when she ate half of a quesadilla I had made with spicy meat, peppers, onions, etc.
--Attention span is increasing ever so slightly. Since she always wakes up while we're getting ready for work in the mornings, we've been letting her watch this silly show called Super Why in the mornings while she drinks her milk and we finish getting ready. Don't hate -- it's a reading show, and I'm sure she'll be reading in a couple of months, so there. She loves it so much that the other day I found her with a full bottle of milk (yes, bottle -- she still uses them sometimes), drooling on herself. When the characters on the show would ask a question she'd point and say something that only she herself could understand. It's nice that we can have a little time in the mornings now, but I do fear that she likes the tv a little too much, already.
So Special
Ok, so I am long overdue for an update here, and I really and truly am going to try my best to get some current photos and happenings up here later this weekend. There has been so much going on over the past few months that I haven't had time to do a new blog post any justice. However, this little morsel should help tide you over. If the last post you looked at was the one of her dancing at nine months, then you probably won't think she has changed all that much. And in some ways maybe you'd be right. A new(ish) obsession of Autumn's is animals. All kinds of them. She can say a few animal names, and/or the sounds they make. A sheep, for instance, is a "baaa baaa". But mostly she likes to just point at them, and do whatever this is....
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