*Health note. She has received ZERO calories through her tube for 3 weeks now. And she's gaining weight, hooray! She needs to keep this up for another 2 months, and then we will take her "port" out. Her 15 month appointment yesterday was great. Her pediatrician noted that her breathing rate looked normal (instead of elevated due to lung issues). She's also been going to church nursery now that we're past RSV season. It's quite surreal to be able to fully pay attention to the sermon (and quite wonderful!)
*She can WINK. On command (well, when she wants to =), as well as an adult. Picture below... tough to catch on film, but we did pretty well. We have several videos, too.
*She has a bumblebee pillow pet (thanks, Logans!) that she adores. She will lay on it and "coze" it. When we ask if she wants "bumble?" she's started saying "bum-buh-bee." Um, 3 syllables? And we thought Katie could talk early =)
*A few weeks ago was her first experience with footie pajamas, due to her needing the tube overnight. She was quite confused and kept trying to pull the "socks" off. I explained "Pajama!" and showed her Katie's. She responded "jama" and seemed happy with that explanation. It did take her a few days to figure out how to walk safely on our wood floor with those footies, but she's got it down now =)
*Occasionally she will play with Katie's curler backpack (you know the foam curlers? Found some in a backpack at a garage sale). She'll put the backpack on her arm, and then walk around, patting it, saying "Bah-Pah"
*One morning she decided not to nap (which in itself, is quite normal) but instead occupied herself with taking off her pants. I can't even picture the kind of gymnastics she had to do to accomplish that feat at 13 months!
O.k., thanks for humoring me, two more:
*She has been carrying around squirt bottles for about 2 months (Connor and Katie have squirt bottles that they use to help me spray while we mop our floors). I consoled myself for this poor decision by noting that she could not spray it and it would probably be a while. Yup, you guessed it. She can now spray it. About a week ago she saw Connor spraying himself in the face with the squirt bottle. She worked at it until she figured it out, and now she'll just show up in a room soaked, squirt bottle in hand, and oh so happy!
*On the water note, I was on the phone the other day and Kara came into the room with wet hair. I assumed squirt bottle, but she was smiling and pointing to her hair and then pointing in a direction. I followed her (she wanted to show me). She proudly showed me how she could put her hands in the potty and wet her hair with the water. *sigh* Needless to say, we're working on "no touch potty!" currently in our home.
