12 months + a few days, you were (will fill in after our dr apt) pounds and ounces and inches long
We are headed to our one year appointment next week. I'm not looking forward to more shots, but I do love seeing where she is at on the growth charts. I'll put an update on here once we go.
Can we talk about how much daylight savings sucks? Ugh, she is so in tune with her current schedule, the darn time change had to go and mess it all up. Before the change, her daily schedule was the same as last month. Now it's adjusted slightly, which mostly involves adjustments in her naps. 9 and 1 were always right on point and now she's not quite tired, which makes nap time more of a fight. I'm wondering if we should switch to just 1 nap vs 2, but they say to push 2 as long as we can. I usually get one good nap out of her (1 - 1.5 hours) and then the second is only 30-45 minutes. I have even thought about just adjusting them based on what time it would be, so 10 and 2 vs 9 and 1. I'll give it another week and see where she's at.
The biggest change we made this month was working on her sleeping. The poor girl dealt with skin issues and sickness this month so that meant sleep was the worst. She first had a rash that we had to go to the doctor for and get both a cream and antibiotics to treat. Once that was cleared up, the next week she got a bug (probably from D who was also sick). Let's just say it was a rough month. All that lead to her being a terrible sleeper. I do think a lot of it was because she didn't feel good, but she started to stay awake and not go back to sleep when we would go get her. I was at my whits end, especially the nights it was just me taking care of her. So, D and I decided on a plan that we were comfortable with. I will admit that I got super emotional thinking about the sleep training process. I thought she would fight it tooth and nail, but she understood what we were doing. I even cried as I was reading her a book before bed (aka, dramatic much?). You know what, it honestly wasn't that bad. I would never just leave Isla to cry it out. So our plan involved us going in every 2 minutes for 3-4 times, followed by 5 minutes and then up to 10 minutes if she still wasn't settled. I talked to her before putting her down and let her know what we were going to be doing. I told her how much I loved her and this would be best for her. She really never cried that night, but did fuss a bit. When it was time, we would go in (because she was always standing at the edge of the crib) put her back down on her tummy, cover her up with a blanket and put her hand on her back. In 45 minutes, with zero hysterical crying, Isla was fast asleep. It definitely took a few nights, but now she is sleeping the whole night. She doesn't always sleep the whole time, but she can actually go back to sleep on her own. She knows (as hard as it is) that she won't get picked up at night. I can definitely tell if she's fussing or crying. If she was really crying, with out a doubt, I would pick her up.
Not much has changed regarding how much this little girl loves to eat. When she was sick though, her appetite was not there. I focused on keeping her hydrated, but I could definitely see that being sick had slimmed her down some. She's back at it, thankfully! She nurses 3 times a day: morning, night and once (either 10:30 or 3:30 PM) depending on my schedule. Still having breakfast at 7, lunch at 12 and dinner has been moved back to 5 PM. She snacks in between, so basically she eats all day long, lol. Her favorite things right now are yogurt puffs (Isla would eat the whole bag if I let her), blueberries, string cheese, eggs, sausages, really almost anything. I gave her watermelon the other day and she spit it out. Sometimes I really don't know how she eats so much, but baby girl has got to grow.
The best part about her eating fairly good all the time is that she has a pretty regular pooping schedule. Having said that, I manage to change her into disposable diapers and it saves me some time cleaning the cloth diapers. She is wearing a size 3 disposable diaper and still the 2nd snap on her cloth diapers. I have her in all 9 month and 12 month clothes. It's definitely sad that she is now into the older toddler section. Let me tell you, just when I figured out the different brand sizing, it's all different again.
New things that she's learned this month include knowing what 'up' and 'down' are when standing. D taught her this. She tries to blow kisses, which is basically her smacking her lips without the hand gesture. She sticks out her tongue and runs it along her lips, making all sorts of noises. She has perfected her balanced squat and she even crawled on all fours a few times. She knows hi and bye and waves her hand (sometimes her whole body!). Most days we play for a bit in her room and eventually she is ready to move on. She will start crawling out the room and stop, sit on her butt and wave bye to me. It's adorable. She knows where her belly and boobies are. We are working on nose and feet. She hasn't said a ton of new words, but says more 'momma' vs repeating it over and over. She does recognize a lot of things, but hasn't repeated them yet.
Isla also got to move up to her big girl car seat on the 5th of this month. She is still backward facing, but now sits more up vs flat. She's not in love with it yet, but I think it's so much better for her. It was sad the first time she fell asleep while in the car. Her poor head was all tilted forward, it had to hurt her neck. She's learning that leaning her head to the side is the way to go in the new seat. Isla got a new tooth this month. Her top left incisor broke through, but is not fully in yet. I swear her bottom teeth are almost in, but none have poked through yet. The way she drools and chews on everything in sight, you'd think it would be any day!
Isla still loves to be in the water. She gets a bath every night, but doesn't always get fully soaped. We want to keep the oils in her skin, since she has such issues. She does love the bath. She has way more toys than needed and now always has to have dad read her the dinosaur book. Isla also has a penguin that she likes to push the nose in. We call it abuse, that poor penguin. I absolutely love the shampoo that we use, it smells heavenly on her head. Even during the day, if I lean my nose down to her hair I can smell it. It's like mommy crack. I love it so much! I might make her use this shampoo until she's a teenager, LOL. Mondays we go to her swim class. She now can go under water for 2 seconds. We build up each week and are working on her breath control. I'm so glad that she's in it, she's learned so much.
The last few months, but especially these last few weeks, Isla refuses to let me trim her nails. Usually she is okay with me cutting her fingernails while she's nursing. She hates when I try and cut her toe nails and now she is even fighting the fingers. I'm not sure why, since I've been cutting them since she was little. She has little daggers, so they need to be cut almost every other day! I try and cut them as short as I can, because she keeps scratching her arms and back. I'm not quite sure what makes her itchy, but some days that's all she wants to do. It's so hard to make her stop.
Isla loves loves loves to read. She really is pretty good playing on her own, but if she realizes I'm no longer in the room, she's bound to come find me. Her favorite things she plays with include her stackable spheres, Melissa and Doug's wooden farm, reading books and turning pages. She thinks that her dad is the most amazing thing in the world when he turns on the TV. She recognizes the sound and smiles from ear to ear at him. She still adores going outside and even getting her feet and hands in the dirt and leaves. She's also learning that when music is on, she should clap and rock from side to side. It's her little dance, since she won't walk yet. She was watching her favorite Usher YouTube video (Usher's ABCs) and stood up from sitting and was clapping to the song. I"m telling you, any day now she is going to figure out that walking is super easy and she'll be off!
My little sweet pea. I adore you.
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