Because of scheduling issues, Julia just had her 18-month well visit. Here are her current stats:
- Height: 32.5 in. (50th percentile)
- Weight: 23.0 lbs. (23rd percentile)
- Head Circumference: 50 cm (90th percentile)
Some things we want to remember about her at this age:
- She now nods her head to say yes, and if she really means it she exaggerates the nod motion, which is really cute.
- We often review her day, especially when she has had fun activities. Her eyes light up when we remind her what she did, then she begins listing key words of things she remembers about an activity. Example: If we had swim lessons we'll say, "Did you go swimming today?!" and she'll respond with a nod followed by "octopus!...towels...mommy's towel...Julia's towel...frog...fish...(the toys gets to play with there)...teacher....shoes off...bubbles..." We're always interested to hear what she remembers about the experience.
- If she sees one of her toys/books that was given to her by someone, she always says that person's name and makes sure we know who gave it to her.
- She has always enjoyed being tickled, and now she likes to do the tickling too.
- She can count to ten, and often tries going higher but doesn't really know the order for the rest. She'll say, "fourteen, fifteen, seventeen"
- She almost has her ABCs down. She still skips a few letters, but is very close to singing it correctly.
- She knows her right from left and will accurately lift up the appropriate foot, hand, or arm when we ask her.
- She often wants to designate a mommy, daddy, and baby in the characters/animals in her books.
- She is keenly aware of airplanes in the sky and notices the sound both inside and outside, and can spot them right away.
- When the wildflowers began blooming around town, she would point out all the patches of "blue flowers" we passed. Now the bluebonnets are mostly gone, but we have even more yellow flowers along the roads so she exclaims, "yellow flowers!!" when she sees them.
- She can always distinguish yellow, white, orange, green and sometimes pink and red. She doesn't have a grasp on blue and purple yet, but we're working on it.
- Her favorite color seems to be yellow. It was the first that she definitely knew, and she can always spot yellow objects, cars, buses, signs, flowers, etc.
- We taught her about stop signs ("S-T-O-P...Stop") so now when she sees a stop sign she says, "A-B-C-D...Bop"
- Some common phrases: I see you, later alligator, thank you Julia, almost home, hold it toothbrush please, one more kiss, Julia's turn, right here, right there, down there, one more mime (time), I got it, Mommy/Daddy right back (when we leave the room).
- She still repeats almost everything she hears and we can't even begin to count all the words she says. She is getting better with pronunciation of many that she didn't say quite right before (example: blanket used to be "bebe" but is now "bankek"). Some of her new big words include: armadillo, caterpillar, dragonfly.
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