Sarah At 15 Months

I've slowed down on the Sarah updates and haven't done one since she turned one, so it's high time, huh?  We just had her 15 month appointment, and she's grown an inch, has lost 3oz, and her head hasn't grown at all.  30 3/4" tall (55%), 22lbs 13.5oz (68%), and 17 5/8" (25%) head circumference.  She's still wearing 12-18 month and 18-24 month clothes.  I feel like the waist and torso fit well on the 18-24 month clothes, but the sleeves and pants are usually too long.  It's weird that she can still wear clothes that she was wearing in March.  Her body has definitely been focused on talking and walking and has come to a grinding halt in the height and weight department.

Sarah has a healthy appetite and will try most anything and enjoys a variety of foods.  Her favorites are still things like peanut butter, smoothies, bread, carrots, sweet potatoes, watermelon, milk, and peas.  But she likes random stuff like water chestnuts, spoonfuls of sour cream, and bamboo.  She eats three meals, two snacks, 2-3 thermoses of milk, and 1-2 thermoses of water.  The biggest news in the food department is that she drinks whole milk and ditched the bottle about a month ago.  YAY!!!!  No more bottle washing and drying rack.  One day it just clicked and she started loving her rubber straw thermos.

She is learning so many new physical things that her body can do.  She started walking on her own a week or two after her first birthday.  Now she can walk sideways, backwards, run, march, and dance.  She's learned how to climb onto her own little chair, step stool, rocking chair, and hearth (YIKES!).  She can't quite reach the couch yet, but I know it'll come soon enough.  She can stack three blocks on top of each other.  She also follows short commands like, "Go get the ball," or "Bring me the book."

She loves imaginary play.  We frequently feed book characters and stuffed animals crackers and sips of milk.  We like having tea parties together.  She loves combing my hair.  She is a neat freak and needs a napkin so she can wipe her own hands and tray after each meal.  She also likes wiping the floor, walls, bath tub, and anything else that she thinks needs to be cleaned - this has even included wood chips!

It seems like she learns a new word nearly every day.  She can repeat/mimic about 90 words, and I'd say she has at least 50 words that she says on her own regularly.  She's started putting two words together and saying short sentences like "Hi, DaDa!" "What's that?" "Oh no." "Night night." and "Hi, baby."  Some other favorite new words are push, wash, down, up, walk, rock, talk, horse, pumpkin, and kitty cat!

She's such a charmer and has learned how to smack her lips together for a kiss, blow a kiss, and catch a kiss.  She's become much more affectionate in the last month or two and frequently runs across the room just to give us a hug, hops up in our laps to read, give us a hug after every diaper change, and kisses things she loves like the rocking horse, stuffed animals, and books.  She is also obsessed with stickers and enjoys putting them on herself and others.  She can say sticker, sticky, and stuck.  She loves necklaces and can turn just about anything into a necklace.

Temper tantrums have started up, and in that category she's your typical toddler.  The first notable one happened when she fell and her graham cracker fell in half.  It was the end of the world.  The other most memorable one happened when she found out she could climb onto the fireplace hearth.  I got her off, got eye to eye to tell her it was unsafe, and swatted her hand.  She really wanted to get back on it, but she just looked and it and cried but clapped her hands for herself for being so obedient even though it was really difficult for her.  I was so proud!

Other notable events from the last three months include Halloween, a double ear infection, and meeting her first little cousin, Sadie.