Anna had a growth spurt in the last three months! Since April, she has grown 2 1/2 inches taller...I knew she had grown, but I didn't realize how much! She is now in the 46th percentile for height. But in the same time period, she has only gained one pound and is in the 14th percentile for weight. She is a skinny little thing...her pants are almost always falling off her.
She had another eye appointment this month, and I'm sad to report that her eyes are crossing again. It wasn't that much of a surprise...we've been noticing it for the last several months. Her doctor did a full eye exam and determined that she is a little farsighted. So he wants to try glasses for a few months to see if they help with the crossing. (Everyone always asks, but no, I have no idea how he figured out what prescription a one-year-old needs. It's a complete mystery!) Anyway, he gave it a 50% chance that glasses would help. If not, it's another surgery. So we're keeping our fingers crossed! In the meantime, she looks dang cute in her little glasses!
Anna is learning tons of new words all the time. Here's a list of words she can say: mama, dada, baba (bottle), bubo (bubbles), bye, hi, see ya, hey, me, uh-pee (up please/help me), ah-pee (happy), no, syeah (yes), yeah, yay, ayym (amen), mo (more), some, so bee (so big), my tuh (my turn), stop, boo (blue/blueberries), wa-wa (water/watermelon), ju (juice), noo (noodle) ba (ball), wu (one), two, eye, ahm (arm), shoes, suit (swimsuit), peasss (please...she says this one repeatedly when she wants to play on the iPad), nigh-nigh, baby. That's all I can think of right now, but I know there's more. She does a lot of first consonant sounds for words ("st" for stickers, "ch" for cheek/cheese etc) and she tries to repeat a lot of words we say. The funniest talking moment happened the other night at dinner. Anna always tries to stand up in her high chair and Derek always tells her "Sit down!" and points downward with his finger. So the other night, Anna stands up and points with her finger and says "see dow!" It was SO FUNNY.
Anna knows lots of animal sounds too. Here's a video of her demonstrating a few. Elephant is our favorite. :)
(Sorry the video is sideways)
Anna was weaned at around 17 months. Yay! It actually was a lot easier than I thought it would be. Once we got down to just twice a day, it was really easy to phase out the morning feeding. And then I started giving her a bottle after nursing at bedtime. Then we just eliminated the nursing altogether. Derek took over the feeding the first few nights and she was fine. The next night, I tried just giving her a bottle, and she cried at first, but then took it and was fine. Now baba is her favorite thing ever. We have to hide it until right before bed because she won't want to brush her teeth or read stories or do anything else. Even then, she will still sometimes say "baba, baba, baba" over and over again until we give it to her. She only gets one at bedtime though.
The awesome thing about weaning is that she's sleeping a lot better. She sleeps through the night now probably 5 out of 7 nights. I don't know if it's because nursing during the night was a comfort thing and now she's not getting that so she's less inclined to wake up, or if she was waking because she was actually hungry and now she's getting fuller with the bottle than she was with nursing. Either way, it's nice for me!
Anna is also eating a lot better these days. Some of her current favorite foods are blueberries, corn on the cob, peas, animal crackers, watermelon, and noodles. She's still pretty much a vegetarian. I don't know how she does it, but she KNOWS when something is meat. It doesn't matter if it's a new dish or if we try to sneak it in with a bite of rice or vegetables, if meat is in there, she will turn her head away and refuse to take a bite. The only meat we've successfully been able to feed her is chicken nuggets. Do those even count as real meat? I don't know. Anna seems to eat better when other people feed her...she's such a mooch. It seems like she charms people into sharing fruit snacks, crackers, and cookies almost everywhere we go.
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| After she picked out all the blueberries from her blueberry pancake :) |
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Making a fashion statement with pjs, a snazzy headband, and yogurt-covered mouth
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| Giving a big hug to her cousin, Mason |
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| Playing in the backyard pool with friends, Mercedez and Mckade |
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| At the splash pad |
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| Staying warm! |
Anna is also all about being like Mom and Dad these days. When I'm putting lotion or chapstick on, she has to have some too. If Derek puts salt on his food, Anna has to have some too. If I give her a different cereal for breakfast, she cries until I give her the same kind I'm having. We don't cut her food into little pieces anymore because she won't eat it if it looks different from ours. And we all use plastic cups at dinner because she has to drink out of the same kind of cup Daddy and Mommy are using. I caught her trying to put my deodorant the other day...she pulled the lid off and was sticking it down her shirt. She knew exactly what to do with it! She really is watching our every move.
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| Wearing Daddy's hat at the Bees game |
Anna continues to be extremely animated. When she gets really excited, she yells "Ohhhhh!" When she's sad, she covers her face with her hands and cries. When she's really proud of something, she looks at you and gives you the biggest smile ever. It is always so fun to watch her reactions to new things because she is so expressive.
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| Ohhh! |
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| I'm SOOO happy! |
