Bad Blogger! Bad, bad blogger! Geez.... it's been like a year since I last updated this. Oops. Not even sure what to write! Audrey is 19 months old. She walks and talks and sings and dances, whines and screams and is very head strong! She knows all colors, shapes, body parts, some numbers and letters. All animals and their sounds. She speaks in almost full sentences - "Daddy eat that." "Audrey do that." "Mama go there." etc... She can say hundreds of words. She did great with sign language but is well past that stage now. She can identify the letter A - "A, Audrey, A!" and M - "M, Mama", "D, Daddy". :) The number 9 seems to be her favorite and she can identify it. If I write her name, Mama, and Dada, she knows that's what words they are.
She sleeps great at night. Down for bed around 6:30 most of the time and she asks for me to put her in her bed. Says bye bye or na-night once she's down. She wakes around 6:45-7:15 in the morning. Napping is sketchy these days. She's been down to one nap a day for months now and for a while, the morning nap was always a guarantee. Then it's been slowly transitioning to later in the day, closer to midday or early afternoon but still falling around 11am sometimes. Last few days to a week or so she's had quite short ones though. She had been averaging about an hour and 15 minutes but recently she barely sleeps 40 minutes. I'm wondering if her second set of molars are coming in soon.... she's had her full set of teeth from molar to molar on top and bottom for months. 16 teeth since about 16 months I believe.
Feeding her is tricky. She doesn't like being confined to the high chair so we rarely use it. She would always rather eat whatever is mine or Brian's than what is set aside for her. She eats great when we are out at a restaurant. She will almost always eat a pouch. Any flavor, any time so it's a good fall back. I just bought 10 reusable pouches so I can fill them with stuff like applesauce and yogurt. They are just so much easier than having to try to feed her with a bowl and spoon. She can use a spoon on her own just fine but I prefer her to be in the high chair when she does so food doesn't end up all over the house.
She loves snow. She wants to hold it and eat it all the time. Whenever we leave the house to get in the car, she requests a snowball to hold and eat for the ride.
Trying to get her into the car seat can be very difficult at times. As well as getting her to eat, changing her diaper, getting her dressed, putting on shoes and coat and hat, etc etc. She's still nursing on demand which can be quite often sometimes. But she seems to do fine without when she's with someone else for several hours. She still nurses "to sleep" for nap and for bedtime but now she goes down into her bed still awake at night. I'm hoping that can transition to naps soon too but at this point, putting her down awake just makes her realize it's still day time and she doesn't want to nap because she has too much to do! No matter how sleepy she might be. :)
She's very smart and funny and beautiful and amazing. She's quite a character and makes me laugh all the time. Making silly faces, doing crazy dances. Oh! And lately, she loves building blanket forts in the living room. We build one pretty much every day. And she loves The Little Mermaid. and Elmo. She can identify Michael Jackson music. :)
It's a lot of hard work and frustration being a stay at home mom who doesn't get out of the house enough, but it's still very rewarding and I'm truly grateful to be able to do it. I'm working on myself more these days and feeling less stressed already. Making sure to get more me time out on my own and letting others watch Audrey more often. :) I'm a work in progress.
Well, there's an update. Lots of stuff missed in between my last post and now. But I've uploaded hundreds of videos to youtube and pictures to shutterfly to certainly fill in lots of gaps. Maybe I'll get on here for more updates now.... we shall see.
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