13 months

Finally starting to get used to saying I have a 1 year old!

13 months old: March 24th-April 24th

Feeding: We settled into an eating schedule.  Three meals a day, an afternoon snack, and 3 cups of milk.  For breakfast she usually gets half a container of baby yogurt, some fruit and some sort of grain like Cheerios, mini waffles, pancakes, or oatmeal.   She gets milk when she gets up in the morning, before her nap and before bed.

Sleeping: Staying the course here - awake between 7 and 8, nap around 1:30 for an hour or 2, then bedtime at 8.  She sleeps through the night unless teeth are bothering her.  Which happened a lot.  Her left bicuspid caused a lot of distress as it inched it's way through.  Another bottom tooth also came through.  The right bicuspid also started peeking through.

Language: She doesn't say much of the words you might expect--mama, dada, and hi are pretty infrequent. Uh oh, thank you (dah doo), and all done are popular. She started saying night night (nah nah). 

She is starting to do rudimentary motions to multiple songs.  In addition to Itsy Bitsy Spider we now have Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Pat a Cake.  For Twinkle Twinkle she holds her hands up and opens and closes them.  This is an imitation of what we do at Gymboree,  She also says something that approximates twinkle, some sort of 2 syllable utterance (weeg ul?).  For pat-a-cake, she rolls her hand and some says roll (wo).  She learned that while Jeff and I were on an anniversary trip in Sedona. 

It was also really interesting to see her development with animal sounds.  Before we left for our trip she would imitate moo (boo), meow (bwow), and ruff ruff.  I'd say "What does the cay say?  Meow!" and she'd imitate me.  When we got back she started doing them in response to the question.  Such as "Claire, what does the cow say?" and she would say "booo!"

And the other big issue we were dealing with was misery in the car.  More than 5-10 minutes and she'd be whining and crying.  One time she worked herself up so much on the ride home, it took 15 minutes and a cup of milk to calm her down once we got home.  Food helped keep her happy so she got lots of snack in the car.  Cranking some toddler tunes also helped a little bit.   Having someone sit back with her helped too.