15 months

Good news to report on Leila. This morning was her 15-month check up. She gained 2 pounds in 6 weeks! This is good news for us. She is on a high-fat, high-calorie diet and it is slowly working. (I should note we only give her good fats, with the occasional dessert snuck in--girl loves her fig newtons!)

Other news to report is that the princess is cutting her eye teeth--all four of them at once! Ouch! (Teeth #13-16) And she received routine immunizations today, as well as her 2nd flu shot and 1st H1N1 shot. I recently read about a new GlaxoSmithKline study that reported giving children Tylenol before or after vaccines can lessen the effectiveness of the vaccine. So it was pretty much an all-around miserable day. The time change did not help her mood either, she is still off.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33331643/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/

One thing she really started doing at 14 months but is worth mentioning is she knows where to go to follow directions. She will go to her room, the kitchen, outside, our room, etc. if I tell her too. She will also find her shoes, her paci, or her "love" when asked, which is very helpful because sometimes I don't know where those items are. Not that she does it all the time, but sometimes is better than never... I'll take what I can get from a toddler.

Caught on Camera

Leila is what you would call a very active little girl. She basically goes non-stop from 7:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. She still takes 2 naps a day--supposedly. Where has nap #2 been hiding?

A short list of what our days include: 2 walks a day with Shrek, dirt time, book time, Baby Einstein time, usually swim time (often following dirt time), kitchen time, and bath time. What is dirt time? Let's just say it involves Leila's hands and massive amounts of potting soil and/or mulch. In her hair, on her face, under her fingernails, on her clothes. Yuck! But she is GLEEFULLY happy during dirt time. I don't know if I can take that away from her.

I like to change it up and go places, and she is usually pretty cooperative. This week we went to Gymboree, play gym, the Children's Museum, and the play place at the mall, as well as school. Her report card from day #2 was much better I am happy to report. I arrived 15 minutes early to pick her up and spied on her. I watched as she toddled over to her bag and got "Love," her comfort lovey, out and hugged it. Then she burst into tears. My cue to pick her up.

We have been wondering why the naps are so iffy, and this afternoon I think I figured it out. I have been watching as she is cutting her 2nd molar. Molars hurt. Well I got a good look at her mouth this afternoon, and what I thought was #2 is actually #4! I look and feel around in her mouth as much as she will let me, but 2 on the top just popped through without warning. That brings her tooth count to 12.

One of her Daddy's nicknames for Leila is "drama." When she wants to watch Baby Einstein, she will pick up the dvd remote and hand it to me with a whine.

Caught red handed! She is looking for the sunscreen in our swim bag.

Ohhhhhh Leila.....

Our little one is all girl... she wants to wear scarves on her head and bracelets on her wrists. Here she is enjoying some yummy cookies straight from the box!