The dr's office

Anabelle had her 18 month check up this past Monday. For the first time she got to stand on the big scale and it made me realize just how big she is getting. Here are her stats:

Weight-27.4 lbs 88th %ile

Height-31.5 in. 40th %ile

Head circumference 42 cm. 90th %ile

She is doing great with everything else; they checked out her ears which frequently give her trouble and said that they look great. They also asked about a million developmental checklist questions and she appears to be great-which of course we knew!

We are hearing lots of new words and phrases from Anabelle, but I think we are the only ones who might understand them. Often we say something and right after I hear her try to mimic the words. Hmmm... might be time for us to stop swearing? This is what she says lately:

"Uh-oh"

"Ding-dong" (she loves to ring the doorbell)

"Meow" (she loves the cats and chases them all over to try and pet them. Merlin doesn't usually let her, but Morgan is a good sport and usually will let her pet him)

"woof-woof" (any time she sees a dog or something she thinks is a dog)

"get down"

"done"

"da" (daddy)

"mama"

"store"

Some people were surprised to learn that Anabelle still slept without anything in her crib; no pillow, no lovey, no blanket. It started when she was little when it wasn't safe to give her anything, and we just never started. Anabelle is a thumb sucker and hair twirler at bed time so she never really seemed to want or need a lovey or blanket. The other day we decided to start laying her down with a blanket at nap and bedtime. Well now she is hooked on her blankie and it goes many places with her. She will cry if you forget and leave it in her crib in the morning, and if its not there at night she cries. The other night she had a mini meltdown because she couldn't take her blankie in the bathtub with her. Part of me likes that she has something that can comfort her and make her feel cozy, and the other part of me feels like *why did we introduce something that we now have to drag around everywhere, clean, and not loose? Are we crazy??!!* I think we need to find a smaller lovey to get her hooked on so that her larger blankie can stay in her crib, we'll see how that goes.