(Almost) 22 months

Aubrey is just about 22 months now, I can't believe that she she will soon be 2 years old!

Her language has really taken off in the past month. We can now have little conversations with her, which makes it so much fun. Her sleeping is pretty fantastic, and I may be ruining it by transitioning her to a Toddler bed soon. Getting her to sleep is a little tough. She wants to be held, and rocked…. and rocked… and doesn't find joy in getting into her crib. I am pretty sure that once I introduce her "big girl bed" she will be so excited to sleep in it. Im confident she'll stay in it, but still worried because she's on the second floor. We shall see….!

We recently went to Disney World (Magic Kingdom) for the first time as a family. It was so hot, but so much fun. Aubrey loved the mini outdoor water park and watching all of the people, as I knew she would. I am so happy that we live so close to Orlando since there are so many things to do there as a family. We last only 4 hours but it was worth it. :) We probably won't go again until Fall or Winter. It's just not worth it in the heat… and I LOVE the heat.

OH! And did I mention in the last post that we got rid of her pacifier?! This was our second go around with it. The first time we were on day 6 of still crying for it, and she just happened to get sick… with a fever. I couldn't bare listening to her cry for her paci when sick so I gave in and gave it to her. The second time around was really so much easier, I knew that she was ready. I took it cold turkey (she only got it at sleep time anyway) and she was fine by day 3. I really think it comes down to whether the  child is simply ready to deal with out the pacifier. Life really became so much easier with out it as she turned to her "paci" for every sort of self soothing. For baby number 2 I will for sure get rid of it sooner rather than later.

Her personality traits are still pretty much the same since last time I wrote, expect I am glad to say that her tantrums have calmed a bit. She still gets super mad when she doesn't get her way, or if you don't follow through with that you say you will do (if you say you are going to give her a cracker, you better give her a cracker!) but she calms down a lot quicker. She really is a little person that you have to talk through about everything. Still pretty shy, but once she opens up she's social and loves to be in the middle of everything.

I will have to post photos from Disney in another post. I wanted to at least get this done since I have been so horrible at writing anything.

…soon!

We're Back!!

I haven't blogged in almost in almost 10 months!! I feel so guilty about not blogging when I started to read back on my past posts. It was so much fun to read back on Aubrey's growth and development that I decided I must start back!

So here goes!!

First off, a quick summary on Aubrey's milestones and moments in the past 10 months.

She started walking at almost 13 months, her first words were dada/mama/bubble/ball at around 14 months. We have blown her ENT doctor's mind with her language development. Growing up he kept saying her language would be delayed and to expect surgery at age 2. (Posterior tongue tie.. which is still a controversal "problem"). He is shocked and I can shove it in his face that her language is developmentally normal. All of those months of worrying worth nothing! Goes to show you can't ALWAYS trust doctors! We did end up getting tubes put in right before her 1st birthday. She was getting a lot of ear infections and failed her hearing test. 

She has never been a big napper. She has always slept about 11 hours at night and 1.5 during the day. IF that! She lost some weight when we switched her to whole milk and strictly table food at 12 months. She gained it back now and has remained around the 60th percentile for height and weight.

Anyway… Aubrey now.

20 months

Aubrey has a BIG personality. She is very shy at first but once she warms up she is a social butterfly and loves being the center of attention. She expects routine. If you do something different she will let you know. The tantrum phase started months ago and she does not give up!

She is a little late getting teeth- she is just now getting her molars. She is starting to form two word sentences… which is mostly things like "My ball", "My milk" or "No Buster" (our dog!) 

Aubs is on a minimal diary diet. She suffered a runny nose for MONTHS. I mean it literally would run and run and run. Finally I took her off whole milk (She drinks Almond) and started giving her soy or coconut yogurt. She eats cheese maybe once a week when its mac and cheese or a cheese stick. Two weeks after I eliminated dairy her runny nose stopped! I swear diary was the root to all of her problems, even though her allergy test was clean. To this day I think dairy is evil.

Something neat that I started for her….

I created a gmail account for her to have. We will give her the e-mail username/password to her when she is older so she will have personal messages to read back on from each of us, and an e-mail account with a username that is not taken!

…Till next time!