Well, at 20.5 months and counting...much has...and is happening. Oh gosh so much. B and I were talking this morning at how it seems she has truly AGED over night. I had read that this time (18-24 mo) has some of the most rapid growth that you can see in a child. How true, oh how true. First of all, her vocabulary has exploded. Things I had no idea she had picked up is coming out of her mouth faster that I can compute. Today, for instance, we were reading a book that had little pictures for every 10 words. She knew 90% of them. Like house, trees, hand, finger, hot (for fire), ring, apples, water, fish, bow (this was the fish's tale but it did look like a bow) and so on. One of the things that literally had me fall over was a few weeks ago, we were playing as she was taking a bath and she has these wonderfully colored stackable cups. She kept saying something over and over and when I finally tuned in, I realized she was saying blue. I proceeded to point to each cup and she knew blue, green, yellow and pink. I was floored. This has become something we do all the time, "what color is this?" Sometimes she gets it, sometimes she doesn't. But it is fun!
The sweetest thing that she has learned is to say "i love you" and climbed in my lap a few weeks ago and gave me a kiss and said, "luv you Momma." All unpromted! I would have given her a car at that moment. Oh yes I would have...had she asked.
Another huge milestone, we had started acclimating her to the potty. Last night she actually went! We shouted and cheered and danced! She loves sitting on her potty now and are working on getting her to go each time instead of in the floor. She likes to hold it until I take her diaper off and then run away from me and go. I have been grabbing her midstream and sitting her on the potty. Last night was the first time she has actually gone in it. Oh this should be fun!
Finally, I would LOVE your opinions/advice on this. I know they range so much but I know there are several readers of this blog that have children around the same age as Abby Kate so your two cents could really help us. I have been kicking around the idea of moving her to a toddler bed. The one piece of advice that I have gotten consistently was do it before they can open the door. Most everyone has said do it by two. Yesterday, our parents as teachers consultant said she really thought I should do it soon. We will eventually put her in a queen but her bed converts to a toddler bed. I am thinking about letting her sleep in the toddler bed for 2 months and then putting the queen mattress on the floor? And then in a month put it on the low frame and putting the rails on? I just not sure how to do this. I would LOVE your input.
Lots of milestones, lots of fun!
3 comments:
All I can say about this -- First, my child (a boy, but still) does not even realize that pee actually comes out of your body, let alone that you would want to sit on a potty to do it. NO -- he thinks the potty is a fun chair in the bathroom!
Second, I am not taking this child out of his crib until he is at least 15 years old :)! No, seriously, all of the advice I have been given is to leave them in the crib for as long as possible -- it makes life much easier for everyone! Isaac will be in the crib for another year of I have anything to say about it . . . why do you want to move her to a "real" bed?
Erin
I cannot believe how big and pretty she is!! Hard to believe it was almost a year ago when I got to see her. She is at the most fun age!
Steph,
Abby Kate is so cute- and just BEAUTIFUL! I loved getting to see her in person the other day. Anyway, I am of no help in the advice department since Bella is still not potty trained. We're working on it, but wow, it's hard! And since Bella never really was in her crib (well, okay, I think she was for maybe ONE night EVER), I'm not much help there either. Now that she finally is in her full size bed though, she sleeps and stays there well. A year ago I would have never believed that was even possible!
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