jun, 14th - 16 months....

day 490:

yikes...where has this month gone.....

a week late on the 16 month old round-up....

Dimensions & Weight:

Length - 80.5 cm

no change on:

Foot Length - 12.7 cm

Hand Length - 10.2 cm

Ear Length - 6 cm

Hair - still growing..with curls....

Teeth - a major teeth growing month.....five at the top and six at the bottom (including three hard-to-grow molars)

Weight - 11kgs

New Words - shower (hugely popular, especially in the morning), flower, shirt, bird, ouch, down, mummy, pah (for please), boop-boop (belly button), cat, ears

Old Words - dada, mama, baba, duck, dog, uh-oh, bye-bye, bubbles, toes, more, baby, shoes, door, nose, eyes, hat, ball, doll, zozo (for zozo the zebra), pup (for up), nono (for my mum), nana (for una, the doll), mimi (for limi) and an obsession with row-row (as in row-row-row your boat......), tah, light, boo, horse, wow

Sentences - two word sentences at the moment...

This Month's Likes & Dislikes:

Likes -

• dolls (called baby)....HUGE fan...and pushing baby around in a pram....
• keys and doors....especially trying to open door locks using keys
• ducks {see day 476}
• us, entertaining her with renditions of row-row-row your boat.....with actions...still
• us, entertaining her with renditions of twinkle, twinkle little star
• oslo {see day 478} and a menagerie of other animals: zozo (zebra), stitch (dog), koala (koala), dig-dig (wombat)

• dive-bombing pillows....still
• raisins...especially in boxes
• paddling {see day 481}
• telling us long and involved stories
• climbing in and out of the buggy....the hard way.....

• splashing in puddles {see day 488}

• doing up clips....especially in the pram...most definitely still

Dislikes -

• not paddling in a pool

• handing keys over
• not being allowed to drink half the bath water
• growing teeth....still