Eliza is going to be starting day care in November at the same place where Livy has been going since she was 18 mos. Eliza is almost 16 months now. She's cruising all over the place holding onto furniture but isn't yet walking on her own. She first started crawling on her first birthday and I've read articles about how important crawling is for developing fine motor skills and upper body strength so I personally think it's good that she has gotten in lots of crawling for the past four months. She may not be a walker but she is a climber! She can climb up and down a full flight of stairs and she can climb into an adult-sized chair or onto a coffee table. She is growing up in all kinds of other ways too. She is down to nursing just once a day in the morning and she sleeps well for about 11 hours through the night (7:00 p.m. - 6:00 a.m.). She sleeps with her bunny lovey that she named Hopper. She will ask for him in a cute, low voice that gets deeper at the end of the word "Hoppu". This weekend I started transitioning her away from her morning nap in preparation for daycare. She has been just taking one afternoon nap for about 3 hours from 12-3 and doing well on that schedule. It is nice because it gives us more time to get out and about in the morning too.
Eliza is starting to eat with a spoon or fork and most of it makes it into her mouth. She loves to eat just about anything and everything and is always asking for "mo".
Eliza likes to try to get away with doing naughty stuff. For instance, she will stand up in the bathtub holding onto the edge of the bath and call out "Sit down!"
If you ask her a question, like, "Are you ready to come out of the bath?" instead of saying no, she shakes her head and says "uhm uhm."
Eliza is very friendly and says hi and bye to everyone. She has the ability to make any introverted or crabby looking person respond to her with a big smile. The old men that live across the street hardly ever look my way let alone greet me (they are conservative Muslims and I'm not sure it is even culturally appropriate for them to talk to me) But Eliza will call out "Hi!" to them and they will give her a big smile, say "Hi!" back and wave to her.
Eliza is starting to eat with a spoon or fork and most of it makes it into her mouth. She loves to eat just about anything and everything and is always asking for "mo".
Eliza likes to try to get away with doing naughty stuff. For instance, she will stand up in the bathtub holding onto the edge of the bath and call out "Sit down!"
If you ask her a question, like, "Are you ready to come out of the bath?" instead of saying no, she shakes her head and says "uhm uhm."
Eliza is very friendly and says hi and bye to everyone. She has the ability to make any introverted or crabby looking person respond to her with a big smile. The old men that live across the street hardly ever look my way let alone greet me (they are conservative Muslims and I'm not sure it is even culturally appropriate for them to talk to me) But Eliza will call out "Hi!" to them and they will give her a big smile, say "Hi!" back and wave to her.
