I swear, this past month has been so much fun with her. Trying, at times, but overall we've really seen a lot of personality from her this month. Her vocab has really grown this month. Everyone told me that around 20ish months or so she would start to pick up more words and not to worry if she wasnt talking much before then, but as any 1st time parent knows, its so hard to believe what others tell you until you see it for yourself. So, i'm just going to try to list some things i can remember about her....
- Theres no way i can remember exactly which words are new, but she now says "NO NO", "baby", "mommy", "cuse me", "MINE", "baahh-neee" (barney), "tay-tuuu" (thank you), "dink" (drink), "nana" (banana), "juice", "papa" (i show her pics of Daddy), "giiin" (again), "i pussssh", "i eat", "sish" (fish), "bosh" (bath), "bella" (mamas dog), "Tracy" very clearly now!, "wowers" (flowers), "ower" (shower), and can do noises for LOTS of animals including a chicken, rooster, lion, sheep, pig, cow, dog, duck, horse, cat, and i'm sure i'm leaving some out!
- She has gotten her lower canines this past month. The lower right one came in the day after Christmas and the lower right on Jan 13th. The canines seem to have bothered her a good bit. She's drooling like a faucet and whining a good bit with them...
- Naps are going fine. The afternoon nap has moved to 1pm most days (because one of the little girls that stays with her at Tracy's house has gone to one nap a day and it starts at 1 so its easier to just put all the girls down at once... because Rhyan started noticing that she was getting laid down sooner than Shelby and Taylor and wasnt happy with that! lol). She sleeps from 1-3:30 most days. Some days she wakes up a few minutes before that, and there are lots of days we have to wake her up at that time. Otherwise she has a hard time going to bed at night.
- Over the Christmas crazyness we moved her bedtime to 7:30. On the days that I work, in particular, this is very helpful. I get to see her 30 extra minutes which is huge, considering i'm gone from her from 7:30-6:15ish those days...
- Her eczema is a little worse in the cold winter months, so we're trying to keep it under control with every other day baths, cortisone cream on flare ups, lotion daily and a humidifier in her room to keep moisture in the air.
- She's eating well, although she goes through spurts of liking/not liking stuff. For example, after months of not even tasting chili or veggie soup, she now loves it. And after months of loving PB&J's for lunch (not daily, of course), she wont touch them. She's picked up yogurt again, but that is really more of a day to day questionable food :-) Point being, she shares her opinions about food quite effectively, these days.
- She is in her "big girl" room now and LOVES it! The transition was un-remarkable. She didnt mind at all. She seemed to know it was her new room and has treated it as such from day one. It's slightly larger so we put some toys in there, which she loves.
- She loves the t.v. and knows how to turn it on with the remote. We limit t.v. to one 30 minute show a day (unless she's sick or we're sick or all just tired or something) which she sometimes takes better than others.
- Rhyan is very into climbing right now.
- She is testing boundaries. She has had a few days of balling her head off if we told her "no" about anything. We completely ignore any tantrums and do NOT give in (or even give her any attention for it) which keeps them to a minimum. She goes through spurts with these like anything else... i guess she wants to see if they start working :-)
- Rhyan is very, very playful lately. She loves to be chased!
- We re-instituted "room time" this month. All was going well and she was up to 25 minutes at a time... and then sickness came. And we're kinda back at square one. We do it at 10am each morning.
7:15ish wake up, brush teeth
8am breakfast
8:30 help mommy clean up
8:45-10am free play or run errands/ clean the house. I am "with" her but not necessarily playing with her the entire time. We play, i do a chore, we play, i clean...
10am t.v. time
10:30 independent play time in her room
11am craft time with mommy (playdough, coloring, puzzles, etc...)
11:30 free play (so i can fix lunch)
12 lunch
12:30 help mommy clean up, reading time and ready for nap
1pm nap
3:30 up from nap, snack
4-6 play time as a family/free play/ play with daddy (outside time if its pretty enough)
6pm dinner (This comes later if i'm working)
6:30 bath (this is switched w/ dinner if i'm working...)
7pm family time
7:30 bed
I'll reiterate that i live on a very flexible schedule. When we have no where to go, this is pretty much the way the day goes. But generally, we have an errand to run either in the morning or afternoon. And there are lots of times that we spend part of the late morning visiting a family member and in this case, we do more structured stuff earlier in the day and use the late morning as free play. I'm not overly concerned with making sure every minute of the day has a purpose, but i do want to make sure that she is 1. capable of playing independently of others and 2. increasing her attention span so that she doesnt flit from one activity to another every 2-3 minutes.
She seriously is a doll. Some of my very favorite things about rhyan right now are 1. her "singing" 2. her dancing 3. the way she hides in our closet and jumps out and says "boo!" 4. the way she says please (she basically says "p" and follows it with her tongue spitting on you... hard to explain, but imagine blowing a raspberry with a "p" in front) and 5. the way she calles "daaahhdeee" and "puhhhhh" at night before she goes to bed so she can love on them and tell them "nigh nigh".
Gosh, this age is precious :-)
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