This has been an interesting month! Andy was gone for 2+ weeks of it and then when he was home he was sitting alert so he was only home for about 30 minutes each night before Baby Girl would go to bed. We have also had a black eye, vomiting, a bloody mouth, a bad cold, the time change, and major sleep disturbances. Combine all of that with daddy not being around, and Baby Girl has become even more of a mommy's girl than before (if that was even possible). However, good health (and having daddy around a bit) has come back into our lives and things are looking up for the start of month seventeen.
Weight: 25 lbs
Height: TALL! 34 inches
Napping: I successfully converted her to one nap this month! It was a struggle, but we have came out on the other side better for it. She goes down around 12:30 and sleeps for anywhere from 1.5 hours to 2.5 hours. Her norm is becoming 2 hours! Praise God.
Night: Bedtime remains 7ish. Baby Girl sleeps for about 12 hours. She does wake on occasion through the night by crying out for a few minutes, but typically resettles herself. However, while she was sick
we were I was up with her every hour on some nights. She couldn't sleep due to her congestion and was really only able to breathe upright in the rocking chair. Also, she took a full week to adjust to the time change. Some mornings began as early as 5:30 there for a bit....it was brutal to this non-morning person of a mother.
Food: The list of foods she used to like, but now refuses has grown - green beans, peas, carrots, cantaloupe, and strawberries. She
loves any form of pasta, grapes, oatmeal and cheese. She drinks whole milk and water only. (she refused any form of juice the few times we tried it for constipation)
Motor Skills: Baby Girl can
independently feed herself with both a fork and a spoon, and can get rather serious/focused about it. Runs and jumps. Slides off our bed independently.
Language: This girl has lots to say! surprise, surprise ;) New words are bubbles, nose, eyes, door, buball (for basketball), yeah, mamen (for Amen), raaa (for rock as in the rocking chair), down, and mamower (for lawnmower). Her biggest language development has been the emergence of two word combinations! She surprises us every now and again by saying things like "dada bye-bye". She repeats a large nubmer of the words we say every day, but the ones I list are the ones that are part of her independent vocabulary. New signs include: dog, shower, fish, and elephant.
Fun Facts: wears size 4 diaper, size 6.5 shoe, and size 18-24 month clothes (unless its a one piece or footed pj's, then they must be 24 month),
is very particular about where things go (e.g., will put the crayons away one by one making sure each one is put back in the box in the same direction; will find the remotes on the floor and put them back on the coffee table before she can go on with whatever she was doing), is helpful when cleaning up toys!, likes to give hugs and say "ahhh" as she pats your back, the more children around the happier she is, is very attached to her blankets (or 'bah-bie' as she calls it), asks for "melmo" to be on the TV about every third minute, has decreased the time she cries when I leave her at the church nursery, loves to wrestle and rough-house with daddy, likes to run around while screeching loudly, her current favorite books are
Row Row Row Your Boat,
God Made Us, and
Goodnight Sweet Pig, likes to dance, enjoys putting things into containers (and getting them out), isn't a fan of sitting in the shopping cart anymore (unless it is her toy one!), loves to push her baby stroller, would be happy if we played outside from morning till night, and amazes us daily with how quickly she is turning into a little girl!
This has been an interesting month! Andy was gone for 2+ weeks of it and then when he was home he was sitting alert so he was only home for about 30 minutes each night before Baby Girl would go to bed. We have also had a black eye, vomiting, a bloody mouth, a bad cold, the time change, and major sleep disturbances. Combine all of that with daddy not being around, and Baby Girl has become even more of a mommy's girl than before (if that was even possible). However, good health (and having daddy around a bit) has come back into our lives and things are looking up for the start of month seventeen. 
