Friday Kendal and I went in for her 15-month check up. Everything checked out. Dr Chung said she is doing everything he would expect her to, and there was no trace of her ear infection! I was relieved to hear that, although not surprised because she has been a MUCH happier girl this week. I have my sweet K back!!! Kendal is currently 31 3/4 inches tall and 22.2 lbs – that puts her still in the 90 percentile for height and leveling at the 40th for weight. K got two shots – MMR & DTaP – which didn’t make her happy. But I brought her bear blanket and she cheered up quick. We even ran into Deborah and Nathan (there for his 6 month) when we were checking out.
Kendal is all about walking these days, and she is getting more and more steady on those legs. She even bends them some now so she looks less like a robot. Some of her new things this month include:
1. When she is sleepy if you ask her if she wants to go to sleep, she signs sleep and then walk to her room and point to her bed!!! I LOVE THIS!
2. When she is hungry if you ask her if she wants to eat, she signs eat and goes to the refrigerator! (Same thing for Milk time.)
3. She has added “Hi” to her vocabulary. In the morning when Bobby brings her into the bed with me, she will turn her head to look at me and say, “Hi.”
4. No more baby food. Kendal has decided she is done with baby food and only wants to eat what Bobby and I am eating. She will still eat fruit in her morning cereal, but veggies and meat – no way! But now that she is healthy again she is good eater, as long as it is what we are eating!
5. Kendal can drink from a straw. She gets so excited when the liquid comes up the straw into her mouth. But since she still forgets to close her mouth when she pulls away, she still makes a mess.
6. Kendal’s new favorite way to eat is off a fork. She can’t get the food on there, but she sure can put it in her mouth and get the food off. When she had beans the other night, she kept handing me back the fork and I couldn’t get beans on the the fork fast enough for her!
7. Playing in the pool. Kendal and I have been trying to spend more time in the pool lately and she really likes playing with her buckets and such while standing on the top step of the pool.
8. Kendal has liked flap books for a while now, but I recently introduced her to the Your Baby Can Read flap books, and she loves them. She seems to know almost all of the words in the first book and will “read” it with you pointing to her own body parts. And she loves to read these books. She carries them around and peaks under the flaps. They are her current favorite books.
9. Back up and sit down. Kendal has taken to backing up and sitting down in someones lap – usually to read a book.
10. Kendal continues to wander from room to room collecting items in her hands and trading them for new ones in other rooms. She really likes to carry around her pink bucket and add treasures to the bucket (or Mickey plane).
And she continues to grow cuter by the moment!
