Kaylee's 15 month checkup was this afternoon. She is now 25.75lbs (87th percentile) and 33.25" tall (99th percentile) - growing like a weed!!!
We still love Kaylee's doctor, who said she was super smart, adorable and perfect yet again. :-D She said by 18 months most toddlers can say about 20 words and can point to body parts - Kaylee can already say about 30 words, sign about 20 words, make lots of animal noises when asked (or when she sees a photo or the animal) and knows lots of body parts (and she's known most of the body parts since just after her birthday). So today her doctor told us that at this rate we should probably expect her to be saying two-word sentences by 18 months (she actually already does sometimes..."bye-bye, dada" for example) and talking our ears off by 2 years.
Kaylee was fine - into everything, as usual! - in the exam room until the doctor came in. Then she just kept saying "bye-bye, bye-bye" ... apparently letting us know that she was ready for either us or the doctor to leave!! She did cry a little and want to be held during much of the exam, going back and forth between wanting me to hold her and Jamie to hold her, but of course the doc wasn't the one to do her shots. When the doctor was finally leaving the room, Kaylee said "bye-bye" and signed "I love you." It was so cute!! (Incidentally, she did not sign "I love you" to the nurse who stuck her with the two shots...she just go the super-tearful "bye-bye" a couple times.)
The doctor told us today of the new recommendations that kids stay rear-facing in their carseats until at least two years old. We had already heard that, and plan to keep her rear-facing as long as possible since it's safer for her...for all you out there wondering why we haven't turned her around yet. :) (It's also easier to see her when she faces backwards, since we have a mirror on the headrest she's facing, aimed at our rear-view mirror. Once we turn her around, we won't be able to see her as well.)
We had a super busy morning, with the last class of our Kindermusik summer camp followed by a couple hours at Catch Air with a friend and her 16 month old daughter. We went last week with a neighbor and her 17 month old son. Kaylee had fun last week, but must have gotten an extra energy boost this morning as she was all over the place. I could not keep up!! I have some pictures and videos from last week's and today's adventures at Catch Air, but have yet to upload any...hopefully soon!!
Wow, I hadn't heard that about keeping them rear-facing until 2. We turned Elena around at about 15 months old.
ReplyDeleteWay to go Kaylee on the talking!
It's a new recommendation, and not law, by the AAP. I think I heard about it 3 months ago, but the info is just now being spread via doctors, etc. (Our ped said that "they" waited until all the swine flu madness had calmed down to announce this.)
ReplyDeletehttp://aapnews.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/30/4/12-a
We never turned Kaylee around, so she doesn't know any different...not sure if I'd turn her back around if we had already done so. ???
I heard that it was 5 times safer to keep them rear-facing, which is why I didn't immediately turn Elena around at 12 months.
ReplyDeleteNo, I don't think I could turn her back around now. She likes looking out at the cars and other things on the road too much.