Tonight I was watching a video that my dad took of our family Christmas gift opening which was Madelyn's first time opening gifts. Even though that was only 7 months ago, she has changed dramatically since then. In the video she was sitting and scooting forward a little bit, but she wasn't crawling yet. In the video she was still very much a baby. Now, a short 7 months later she is pretty much a little toddler. I am going to work on getting posted a video that my dad took a week and half ago of Madelyn walking. It is funny to watch her trying to figure out what she is doing!
Last week we had Madelyn's 15 month check up (a few weeks late, I know). She is generally healthy, and on track in her development. She is now 31 inches tall which means she grew an 1 1/4 inches since her 12 month check up, and is still in between the 50th-75th percentile for her height. She only gained a little over a pound and is now 21lbs and 3 oz, and is now in the 10th-25th percentile for her weight.
In the last few weeks we have gone through a bunch of changes with Madelyn. A few weeks ago, after a month or two of us trying to get Madelyn to take some steps on her own, she was playing in the middle of the floor, looked at Justin, stood up and then walked over to him like it wasn't a big deal. My mom was about to head out for the day, and she and I just looked at each other like "did we just see what we thought we did?!" Since that day Madelyn has been working on increasing her proficiency with walking and it is now usually her preferred method for getting from one place to another.
She has also been working more on her verbal communication skills, although she often still reverts to "ahh, ahh, ahh" and pointing at something to try to communicate what she wants. However, she is frequently telling us when she is "all done," although sometimes we don't agree with her. She is also asking for "more" and almost always means it. She still calls most things and people "ba" including Justin and I, but we do sometimes get a "Mama" or "Dada." Her favorite things to say are "whoa," "wow," and "uh-oh." She is also making attempts to say words like "please" when we ask her to try. We are having a lot of fun learning to interpret and talk with Madelyn :)
Madelyn loves music and all things musical, she also likes to play with her stuffed animals and her little people zoo animals, and she loves to play in the water. It doesn't matter if the water is at the neighborhood wading pool, at the beach, in the bathtub, or in Aubrey's water dish, Madelyn is always excited to get as wet as she can and get whoever is near her as wet as possible in the process.
Recently we took Madelyn to an outdoor concert of the Minneapolis Pops and she thought they could benefit from her conducting :)
1 comment:
How cute! She is obviously having a ball!
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