Tiny Tot at 16 Months

Tiny has made great strides in personhood over the last month or two. She's become very active and feisty and communicative. She's a good little walker/runner/climber.

At her 15-month appointment on November 16 (when she was 16 months), Tiny weighed just under 21 lbs - 38th percentile - and was in the 45th percentile for height. Her head stayed steady on the top curve in the 97th percentile.

When I went to her appointment, she was saying several words. Over the following two or three weeks, she started saying so many more. Some of her favorites (besides Mama and Dada) are Ever, please, books, box, shoes, brush, bye, apple, wa-wa (water and milk are both "wa-wa"), bath, yeah, up, down, out, outside (which she says "side"), and snack (pronounced "knack"). She's stringing words together: "Wawa, please," "I want dat" (or "Want dat" - it's not clear), "Want books," etc. She mimics words really well.

One of the first things she started saying was "good." Every time you ask her how she is or how something was, she says, "Good." It's so cute.

Her answer to any yes-or-no question is, "Yeah." She's very agreeable.

For the longest time, she had no interest in books. The doctor told me at her 12-month appointment, I think, that I should be reading 30 minutes a day with her, and I scoffed. I was a little worried about her scholastic future. No longer. All of a sudden, she became out-of-control obsessed with books. When we get her from her crib in the morning or after a nap, she says, "Books, books, books, want books" the second we walk in the room. She has to hold books and carry them around all the time. I'm constantly gathering books and taking them back upstairs. We always read before bed, and she always wants more. She still doesn't sit and listen to real stories, but she's really into the age-appropriate books. 

She climbs up chairs and stools and onto tables and wants to do everything her sisters do. It's hard to keep her safe. Now when I'm in the kitchen preparing food, I've got three girls pushing chairs over from the table and climbing up to see what I'm doing and try to participate. It would be cute if I had patience and weren't always anxious to get things done.

She has the cutest whole-face smile and remains the sweetest little thing and best snuggler. We love our Tiny Tot.

P.S. These days, inspired by her name, I'm always singing, "Tiny tots, their eyes all aglow" and thinking of this:

'Tis the season.