Mae Mitchell is 18 months old! I am going to be completely honest, Mae and I hit a bit of a rough patch for a few months. She is so independent and so stubborn (not to mention she hates being touched, haha). Plus, she likes Dal much better than me so it was a tiny bit hard to bond with her sometimes. The past month or 2 have been so great with her! Her newfound obsession with books means she will let us snuggle her as long as we are willing to read a million books to her and now that she can talk a little she can tell me what she wants sometimes. She has really chilled out and is a joy to be around a lot of the time. Plus she cracks all of us up!
At 18 months, Mae...
-Randomly, out of nowhere, decided to not hate her carseat, bed, and stroller. In fact- she went from despising all of those things for over a year to loving them! She likes going to bed now and willingly climbs into the jogging stroller for our run in the morning. She still refuses to sit in a high chair...
-Sleeps from 8 or 9 pm to 8 or 9 am. She's not a super great napper but it is fine because Cal hates when she naps and asks if he can wake her up every 6 minutes.
-We stopped breastfeeding around 15 months and cut her off the bottle a month later. She has finnnnally started eating food now that she isn't getting so many calories from milk. She is still a little pickier than Cal, but she usually will eat whatever we eat for dinner. Her favorite foods are yogurt, clementines, and pizza.
-She says (in context) please, nose, eyes, teeth, bath, hot dog, pizza, elmo, mom, dad, down/up, night night, hi, bye, tickle, book, duck, doggie, go, bubble, apple, baby, and ball. Such a relief since Cal wasn't really talking by now and we were kind of worried. She says, "peeeeease" all day long which is polite and cute except I never really know what she is asking for.
-She loves baths, walks, watching the Will-I-Am/sesame street song (seriously she gets sooo happy), having Calvin chase her, books books books, animals (especially dogs), and swimming.
-She hates getting dressed, high chairs, being restrained, nursery (our 1:00 church time doesn't help), and vegetables.
-Cal has never really played rough with her and so she is pretty sensitive. Sometimes she has a hard time playing around kids her age because she gets so stressed when they push her.
-She weighs 23 pounds. 9th percentile for height, 30th percentile for weight. (So short and chubby)
-Mae looooves Dallin. He is the favorite and I don't mind. She has this epic "Daaaaddddy" every day when he gets home and it is super sweet.
We love our Mae so much. She is silly, stubborn, sweet, and sensitive. and sooo funny!
At 18 months, Mae...
-Randomly, out of nowhere, decided to not hate her carseat, bed, and stroller. In fact- she went from despising all of those things for over a year to loving them! She likes going to bed now and willingly climbs into the jogging stroller for our run in the morning. She still refuses to sit in a high chair...
-Sleeps from 8 or 9 pm to 8 or 9 am. She's not a super great napper but it is fine because Cal hates when she naps and asks if he can wake her up every 6 minutes.
-We stopped breastfeeding around 15 months and cut her off the bottle a month later. She has finnnnally started eating food now that she isn't getting so many calories from milk. She is still a little pickier than Cal, but she usually will eat whatever we eat for dinner. Her favorite foods are yogurt, clementines, and pizza.
-She says (in context) please, nose, eyes, teeth, bath, hot dog, pizza, elmo, mom, dad, down/up, night night, hi, bye, tickle, book, duck, doggie, go, bubble, apple, baby, and ball. Such a relief since Cal wasn't really talking by now and we were kind of worried. She says, "peeeeease" all day long which is polite and cute except I never really know what she is asking for.
-She loves baths, walks, watching the Will-I-Am/sesame street song (seriously she gets sooo happy), having Calvin chase her, books books books, animals (especially dogs), and swimming.
-She hates getting dressed, high chairs, being restrained, nursery (our 1:00 church time doesn't help), and vegetables.
-Cal has never really played rough with her and so she is pretty sensitive. Sometimes she has a hard time playing around kids her age because she gets so stressed when they push her.
-She weighs 23 pounds. 9th percentile for height, 30th percentile for weight. (So short and chubby)
-Mae looooves Dallin. He is the favorite and I don't mind. She has this epic "Daaaaddddy" every day when he gets home and it is super sweet.
We love our Mae so much. She is silly, stubborn, sweet, and sensitive. and sooo funny!
