Height: 29.75" (65% percentile)Weight: 20 pounds 2 ounces (30% percentile)
Head: 47.5 cm (97% percentile)
Teeth: 2 bottom teeth, 2 top teeth are starting to poke through
What She Eats:
- Breakfast: 1/2 cup yogurt, with 1/2 cup of O's cereal & baby oatmeal mixed in.
- Lunch: 1 jar of baby food with 1/2 slice of whole wheat bread pieces & 1 small sweet potato cut into small pieces. 1 mango cut into pieces for dessert.
- Afternoon Snack: Slice of cheese cut into pieces. Started adding whole milk the week after her 1st b-day.
- Dinner: Eats what parents are eating, but cut into smaller pieces. Grilled tofu steak with rice pilaf; eggplant parmigiana with spaghetti; pizza; etc. 1/2 banana for dessert
- Dislikes green beans and cottage cheese.
Walking: Walks holding parents fingers, and can stand for a second without holding on. Good balance, but hasn't let go of our fingers to walk on her own yet. Cruises all furniture and pulls up very well (and eases down).
Personality: Reese is a sensitive little girl who is very attached to both her Mom and Dad. She smiles, laughs, and eagerly crawls to both of us. She is shy towards other adults and will bow her head and look up at new people as if she's hiding from them, which is also followed by a bashful grin. She is very interested in other children and likes to watch other kids play.
Miscellaneous things that she does:
- Says "Ma-ma" regularly, and starting to say "Da-da". Will sometimes say, "woof" when you show her a picture of a dog.
- Points at everything. If asked, she'll point to Ma-ma, Da-da, doggie, TV, and many other common things around the house.
- Reese has a very healthy appetite with quantity and spice, but when she's full she's full, and she quickly starts throwing the rest of the food on the floor.
- Claps to music
- Can climb all 14 stairs in around 30-40 seconds. Just learned how to go down the stairs backwards by herself (first tried in Hawaii the week before her first b-day; nearly mastered at 12.5 months).
- Tall, so she wears many 18 month clothes which are just a little big on her.
- Likes to "help" with laundry. Takes clothes out of washer and puts them into the dryer.
- Likes to play with the spices in the spice drawer, Tupperware, and "her" cabinet (with her cups, plates, and nalgene bottles).
- Loves anything outside, but especially the local park. Climbs the dinosaur steps, crawls through the plastic pipes, plays in the wood chips, swings, watches all of the kids, watches the dogs fetch balls, and loved playing with the leaves in the Fall. Tries to eat leaves or wood chips at the park.
- Loves bath time and splashes by repeatedly pounding both hands down into the water getting her face and her parents very wet.
