Our sweet Lexi Kate is 17 months old!
Stats:
Around 18 1/2 lbs I'm guessing. We go back to the doctor in August. Although her feet have gotten a TON bigger recently! She can finally wear her "3 Tiny" Toms! They're still a little big on her but her 2 Tiny's no longer fit. That's progress, people!
Eating:
She's a great eater! The only time we notice a big change in eating is when she's teething and she has gotten all her 1 year molars in officially. When she's teething she doesn't have much of an appetite, understandably. Her favorites seem to be chicken, blueberries, watermelon, grapes, yogurt, peas, broccoli and cauliflower.
Napping/Sleeping:
She is still on a 2 nap a day schedule but again there's been a couple days she's skipped her 2nd one. I'll keep on this schedule until she refuses her 2nd nap for like a week straight. She is just so tired when she takes her first one and naps great and she's EXHAUSTED by like 6 if she doesn't take her 2nd one, so I still think she needs 2 but we'll see.
Clothing:
Still 9-12 months which makes sense based on her weight and size 2 diapers until we're through with the packs. We're using 3's at night because we've had a little leakage overnight. So far the 3's have worked great.
This month she's loving:
-Hiding! In her closet, more specifically. She will go get in her closet and we'll say "where's Lexi???" and she'll eventually poke her head out and say "HI!!!!" Or we find her in the closet and she laughs like we had no clue.
-She learned to blow on her food when it was hot. That now translates to blowing when anything is hot or when we say the word "hot". Even when she gets in the car she starts blowing because it's hot outside- hahaha
-The song "This is how we roll" by Florida Georgia Line. One day I had it in my head and was singing it when she was having lunch. She started saying "Roll Roll" so I played it on my phone and now if she sees us on our phones she comes up to us saying "Roll Roll! Roll Roll!!!" and wants us to play it
-Dancing- Say "Shake your booty" and she will wiggle her hips, "drop it like it's hot" and she'll bounce up and down and "happy feet" and she'll stomp her feet. She's well trained :)
-Saying "GOAL!!!!" courtesy of Dada and the World Cup- she LOVES yelling it!
-Going outside and *listening* to the birds. If she's upset that will calm her down
Little Extras:
-Our baby is a little OCD when it comes to dirt, lint, crumbs, etc. on the floor. If she sees something she will point and whine until it is picked up. Needless to say I keep a pretty clean house already and this is a DAILY occurrence. Anyone else's baby do this?! I'm hoping this just means she'll be clean and tidy ;)
-She's doing GREAT with repeating words and trying to say everything although sometimes she gets frustrated with not being able to fully communicate. There have been a couple times recently when she's been wanting me to do something and I'll try several things that I think she wants and she starts flailing her arms in frustration and fusses that I can't get it right.
-She is obsessed with purses and carrying bags. I gave her one of my purses from when I was little that's her size and she puts little books, plastic "coins", bows etc. in it. It's made trips to the grocery store and Starbucks with us. What can I say she's all girl ;)
-We've started asking her if she can be our little baby and she will climb in our arms and be held like a "little baby"- then she says "all done" and moves on!
Firsts this month:
-As of today all her 1 year molars are in! Her bottom right is the last to come in and its poked through but not fully up yet.
-She has started what we call a "stink face" this month. It's really hard to explain and I'll put a picture to try to show what it looks like. It's freakin' adorable and although she means it to be "upset" we just laugh.
-Shaking her head "no" if we ask her a question. Ex. Do you want to give mama a kiss? -No head shake. :( haha
-Saying "Are you surprised?" and her holding her hands in front of her eyes and putting her head down
-She's acknowledging that we go to the bathroom when we have to pee- all moms know you never go to the bathroom alone- and I've always narrated this for her. "Mama has to pee c'mon". So now when I say this she heads to the bathroom and she says "peepee" and she always wants to look in the toilet (gross, I know) but I feel like it's good she knows these things when we start to potty train later on.
-We've got some new books that really show colors and animals. They are lift the flap books and she knows where the animals are and is recognizing colors.
Here are some pictures from Marshall's cousin Ashley's wedding (our weekend in VA):
This is what Lexi's hair usually looks like when I come to get her up from a nap... oh goodness.
Her "stink face"
