Fifteen months old
Wednesday, October 26th, 2016 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chanaleh
I've backed off the monthly updates because Aria's baby book only has month-by-month pages for the first year! but I really should try to keep some notes here.
She is still not speaking much in the way of actual words, but her babbling is getting ever more complex-sounding, if that makes sense.
Words she now says regularly (in the right context):
(1) Hi!
(2) Buh, buh, buh (banana)
(3) Bah! (ball)
(4) Bye! (this one is very recent, although she has been waving bye-bye for a while. SO CUTE.)
And that's still pretty much it. She also says "muh, muh, muh" but usually when she is hungry, and not directed at Mama specifically. She will occasionally say "dah" in reference to the dogs, but not regularly -- whereas now anytime she sees a ball (on TV, in the living room, even the big red-painted concrete spheres in the Target parking lot) she says "Bah! Bah!"
However, there are some more words that I could almost swear I heard her say in the last week or so, in the presence of the respective things:
(1) Roomba
(2) Brush
(3) Cracker
Everyone says that once she starts talking she'll never shut up, so we should enjoy this stage for what it is while it lasts. :-) I guess so.
Also, since her first birthday, her emotions have become noticeably more intense: absolute beams of delight over simple things, absolute rage-crying over others. I gather this is a standard one-year-old stage. I just wish she had some words to express what's in her mind.
Food fun: In the last few weeks she has taken a great interest in using a spoon or fork all by herself. She still hasn't mastered spearing things with the fork, but it is fun to try; and the moment you put a piece of food on the fork for her, she will joyfully grab it and get it to her mouth (even if it's the same food she was pushing around disinterestedly on her tray a moment before). The spoon is more successful, but the tricky bit there is entrusting her with a dish of spoonable food; there's such a short window between "focused on eating" and "time to fling everything on the floor!".
Waking up in the middle of the night is tapering off a bit. It's still up and down -- some nights not a peep from 9:30pm-8:30am, other nights up for an hour every 3 hours -- but the progression seems to be in the right direction. However, she has started balking a bit at going to bed. For a while she would cry as soon as we headed upstairs; lately it's more like she is tired and fussy and just needs to be convinced via some bedtime snuggles and bottle that it is actual sleeptime. But then when I do eventually get her settled, she has a FIT when I put her down into the crib. If I still can't transfer her successfully on the third try, I will leave her to cry by herself for a few minutes. It rarely takes more than 10-15 minutes for her to quiet down; very often, she will wail pitifully but then as soon as I close the door, she's quiet, which is a great relief.
Of course, now that I'm writing, there are a hundred things that I want to note. I need to make shorter and more frequent entries. :-}
She is still not speaking much in the way of actual words, but her babbling is getting ever more complex-sounding, if that makes sense.
Words she now says regularly (in the right context):
(1) Hi!
(2) Buh, buh, buh (banana)
(3) Bah! (ball)
(4) Bye! (this one is very recent, although she has been waving bye-bye for a while. SO CUTE.)
And that's still pretty much it. She also says "muh, muh, muh" but usually when she is hungry, and not directed at Mama specifically. She will occasionally say "dah" in reference to the dogs, but not regularly -- whereas now anytime she sees a ball (on TV, in the living room, even the big red-painted concrete spheres in the Target parking lot) she says "Bah! Bah!"
However, there are some more words that I could almost swear I heard her say in the last week or so, in the presence of the respective things:
(1) Roomba
(2) Brush
(3) Cracker
Everyone says that once she starts talking she'll never shut up, so we should enjoy this stage for what it is while it lasts. :-) I guess so.
Also, since her first birthday, her emotions have become noticeably more intense: absolute beams of delight over simple things, absolute rage-crying over others. I gather this is a standard one-year-old stage. I just wish she had some words to express what's in her mind.
Food fun: In the last few weeks she has taken a great interest in using a spoon or fork all by herself. She still hasn't mastered spearing things with the fork, but it is fun to try; and the moment you put a piece of food on the fork for her, she will joyfully grab it and get it to her mouth (even if it's the same food she was pushing around disinterestedly on her tray a moment before). The spoon is more successful, but the tricky bit there is entrusting her with a dish of spoonable food; there's such a short window between "focused on eating" and "time to fling everything on the floor!".
Waking up in the middle of the night is tapering off a bit. It's still up and down -- some nights not a peep from 9:30pm-8:30am, other nights up for an hour every 3 hours -- but the progression seems to be in the right direction. However, she has started balking a bit at going to bed. For a while she would cry as soon as we headed upstairs; lately it's more like she is tired and fussy and just needs to be convinced via some bedtime snuggles and bottle that it is actual sleeptime. But then when I do eventually get her settled, she has a FIT when I put her down into the crib. If I still can't transfer her successfully on the third try, I will leave her to cry by herself for a few minutes. It rarely takes more than 10-15 minutes for her to quiet down; very often, she will wail pitifully but then as soon as I close the door, she's quiet, which is a great relief.
Of course, now that I'm writing, there are a hundred things that I want to note. I need to make shorter and more frequent entries. :-}