15 Months Old - a stats post

Lucy's 15 month appointment was on Wednesday, just two days after turning 15 months old.
I took off work to take her to the appointment but Dave was able to meet us there straight from summer school...he got there just in the knick of time to see a very grouchy Lucy melting down...

She did not want the nurse to talk to her, she did not want me to put her on the scale to be weighed (I finally had to lay her down instead of having her sit, like she usually does, and step back as she flailed and cried), she did not want to lay on the table for the nurse to measure her length...she was just not in the mood.

She calmed down while we held her and answered some of the nurse's questions and was okay once the nurse left completely (but she still wasn't the happy Lucy she'd been at home that morning).  Once Dr. D. came in, it was back to meltdown mode...she did not want him to talk to her, she did not want him to look in her ears or eyes or mouth, she did not want him to touch her at all...But our wonderful doctor who can spin anything into a positive, said he was impressed by her memory - she obviously associated the room to very bad things...and she wasn't far off.  Soon enough the nurse was back to administer two shots.

We went to the library after the appointment...notice the band-aids on her arm



This is the giant red welt, still giant and still red the following evening...

We had just bragged to Dr. D. that Lucy only takes a pacifier when she's sleeping but our girl was so pitiful after the shots, we let her have it.  She was so upset that her entire jaw was shaking - almost like she was freezing cold.  She calmed down pretty quickly once in my car.  If the weather had been as nice as it had been the previous day (80 degree range), we'd have gone to the zoo but it was in the 90s and none of us were up for it.  Dave went to get lunch and since Lucy was so upset, he was just going to get it and bring it home and meet us there.  On a whim, though, Lucy and I decided to stop at the library, which is basically in the same parking lot as her doctor's office.

We only stayed for 10-15 minutes but she had a great time!  She's hoping she's able to sweet talk her daddy into taking her back at least once or twice this summer.  We played with blocks and puppets and puzzles, spelled her name on the magnet board, did some coloring and checked out a book and a couple of DVDs but then it was time to go meet dad at home for lunch.

Lucy now weighs 23.44 pounds, putting her in the 59th percentile

She is 30.5 inches tall and is at 51%

Her head circumference is at 84% (big head = big brain...everybody knows that!)

She had two shots but didn't experience any real side effects (once she calmed down) other than the giant red welts (which she seems not to even notice).

Dr. D. said that by 15 months, kids should have 5 or 6 words and he loves to see 10.  Lucy has over 20 words!

She can't say all of them clearly but we know what she has saying and she's said all of the following multiple times (I did not put anything on the list she's only said once or twice or words that we "think" she may have said):

Duck

Dog

Mom, mommy, mama

Daddy

Bib

Milk

More

Ball

Baby

Bye bye

Shoes

Alli

Eat

Cheese

Boo (she likes to round corners and "scare" us!)

Book

Turtle

Giraffe

Elmo

Bird

Bubby

Recently, our little smarty-pants has started learning animal sounds...she's learned these from her books, The Very Busy Spider, Moo Baa La La La, and Just Like My Daddy.

If you ask her what a horse says, she will answer "neigh!"

If you ask her what a cat says, she will answer "Meee!"  (she doesn't quite have the "ow" part down)

She can answer for a sheep - "baa!" and a rooster - a very funny "cock-a-doodle-doo," an owl - "Whoo!  Whoo!" and a cow - "moo!"

She's finally enjoying her baby pools more and some of her other favorite things to do are:

*Playing outside...walking around, going to the park, swinging, playing in the mulch, going down slides, climbing the ladder on her swingset, hanging on the jungle gym at the park, going for short walks, finding sticks and rocks, etc.

*Climbing the stairs (we're working on showing her a safe way to come back down - on her booty).

*Playing in mom's jewelry...luckily, I don't have many nice items (basically just my wedding ring and a couple of necklaces that are stored out of her reach) because she's figured out how to open the nightstand drawer where I keep some costume-y jewelry and she loves getting that out.

*Exploring in the basement (and unpacking some baby clothes and toys of hers I have packed up...) while I do laundry.

*Eat!  She's obsessed...every time she sees her highchair, she signs and says "eat" - to the point where I expressed my concern to Dr. D. that maybe she eats too much?  (He said her growth pattern indicates that she's doing just fine!)

*Pointing!  She is also totally obsessed with pointing...though she knows many words, she often sticks with pointing.  I like to give her choices many times per day so she can get a lot of pointing in (I pick out two cups and ask which one she'd like her water in so she can point out her choice...being given choices usually also gets a giant smile out of Lucy).

Stay tuned for more blog updates...I have a lot of photos to share!