For those of you that don't see Evie on a regular basis, here's a little about her at this age
Stats for her appointment
Weight: 18 lbs, 8 oz
Height: 28.5 inches
Head Circumference: 45.5 cm
Gross Motor Skills
With each day Evie becomes more steady on her feet. She stands pretty well. She stands after holding onto an object and also pops up from sitting. 5 steps is her max at this point. I'm sure she will be running before I can blink. She is taking much smaller steps and has better control when walking behind her push toys. As of her 1st birthday, I wouldn't call her a walker. She is very close though.
I had no idea how to teach her to go down the 2 stairs into our living room safely. I tried to show her how to turn around. Evie tried all kinds of ways and decided on her own that going backwards is the best. It amazes me how she figures these things out. She consistently stops, turns around, and goes down backwards. She doesn't show much interest in going down the main flight of stairs... yet
She loves her riding toys. She will throw her leg over the side of her car or the hippo at Auntie Laura's house and will sit there until someone comes over and pushes her.
Fine Motor Skills (do I have my categories right? I never liked all this technical stuff in child development class)
Evie is into stacking toys. Daddy helped her figure out how to put the bright colored donut looking things on the tube. She does it on her own now.
I read to Ev everyday. She also likes to look at books alone. She will turn the pages and raise her eyebrows at certain pages. Books with flip flaps are winners.
Language
We are moving beyond "mama" and "dada" at this point. She says "dada" a ton. I'm not completely convinced yet that she is saying our names to us. Poppop got her saying "thank you" and since we say Parker all day, she says something that sounds like it.
She makes a lot of interesting sounds. G sounds are popular right now. "Hi" has been around for a few weeks. She's a chatty one and is starting to imitate our sounds. When I ask her what the cow says, she says "mmmm". I now know what it feels like to know what your child is saying when no one else understands.
Feeding
Evie takes 4 bottles a day, drinking about 18 oz of formula. She will drink water from a sippy cup, but will push it away or throw it emphatically onto the floor if there is formula in it. I tried whole milk in it and that didn't go over so hot. I was hopeful that something would be easy in the drinking category since that has been her weakest area. Giving up bottles and formula cold turkey might be too much for her. I plan to mix formula and whole milk, gradually getting to all whole milk. My goal is to have her off bottles and formula by the beach, 5 weeks away.
Evie loves cheese, meat, carrots, asparagus, pancakes, blueberries, strawberries, mango, and tofu. Bananas, avocado, yogurt, eggs, green veggies, and bread are hit or miss. Lunch is her best meal. She eats 1-2 snacks a day depending on nap and where we are.
We have a hard time keeping her attention when we go out to a restaurant. She is a little flirt/social butterfly with the other patrons. We haven't had a bad outing with her. She likes to people watch.
Sleeping
Evie is going down much better without needing rocked or snuggle time. She can put herself to sleep. She sleeps about 11 hours at night, from roughly 7:45 pm until 6:45 am.
Napping is tricky. Some days she will sleep for 1.5 hours in the morning and afternoon, other days she will nap for a total of 30 minutes. She falls asleep in her car seat and transfers to her crib about 50% of the time. 1 nap means easier bedtime, but less time for me to get things done around the house. She plays nicely in her crib for about 20-30 minutes, so even if she's not sleeping, at least I get some time apart. She may be moving towards 1 nap. I planned on moving her to just an afternoon nap when we go to the beach in July, but maybe that's too far away. We'll see. She is still pleasant about 95% of the day nap or not.
Eh, this post is filled with useless info to most of you. This blog also serves as a record of her accomplishments for me to remember her life. Thanks for reading this far. Here are some random pictures from the last month.
