Janie turned 18 months on Saturday, but we had a bit of a crazy weekend, so I’m just now getting around to her update. We took her in for her 18 month well check today, and she’s growing well:
height: 32″ (57%)–Tommy was 37.25″, Elizabeth was 32.5″, Susanna was 32.75″
weight: 21 lb 6 oz (33%)–Tommy was 29 lbs 5 oz, Elizabeth was 25 lbs 9 oz, Susanna was 21 lb 11 oz
head: 18.5 in (70%)–Susanna was 18.25 in
Looking back over the big kids’ 18 month updates (Tommy, Elizabeth, Susie), I can say for sure that parenting a toddler is MUCH easier when not pregnant!
Janie is still very much a two-nap girl, largely because she’s sleeping so poorly at night from those darned molars. When she has to skip her morning nap (for CBS, church, or a field trip), she usually takes a catnap around lunch and then a second, longer nap mid-afternoon until dinner time. She needs her sleep. Once she’s sleeping through the night consistently, I can see her doing okay with one nap, but right now, it’s more convenient for school if she’s not climbing around, distracting everyone!
In the past couple of weeks, she’s become a pro at pointing to things to get her way. Since there are so many helpers around, ready to cater to almost every whim, she hasn’t been forced to actually SAY the word for what she wants. Today Dr Vallance gave the big kids a pep talk about helping Janie talk–they need to say the word that she’s trying to obtain, and then try to get her to say it back.
She still screams whenever we drop her off in the nursery, though she seems to calm down shortly after.
She loves shoes, cars, our pop-up tunnel, coloring with the big kids, and being at the big kid table with everyone else. Her hair is always in her eyes because she won’t keep anything in it very long, and bangs are such a burden that I’m trying to grow things out.
Such a cutie!