Callie: 13 mos!

Another month.... My baby girl is 13 months old! She is at such a fun stage right now and is truly a little toddler. I love her little personality and seeing her interact with big brother Caeden. However, I've been looking through her baby pictures and oh how I miss those early weeks and months. I miss how little she was, and I miss how she would sleep in my arms anywhere... I especially loved our naps on the couch together! But she is in a new stage now....an active stage....and I still love every minute I'm with her.

So here's what Callie was up to in her 13th month (at 12 mos old):

EATING

Callie was officially on all table foods, cows milk, and no bottles this month. This meant no more baby food and no more formula!! She still continued to eat almost everything we gave her. The only food she consistently does not like is Chef Boyardee foods. She still loves yogurt, but I don't know that it's her very favorite anymore. She loves loves loves macaroni & cheese since she was introduced to that this month. And she also loves pizza and strawberries!! She is interested in using the spoon herself but cannot successfully feed herself. 

PLAYING

Callie spends most of her playtime following Caeden and Ella around. She loves to be in the same room as the "big kids" and Caeden's toys are always more interesting than hers. Her favorite toys that she repeatedly goes back to are her stroller and baby doll, Caeden's piano and microphone, her Fisher Price Laugh n Play house, and Caeden's small indoor trampoline. She tries so hard to jump but of course can't yet. So she holds onto the bar and moves her knees up and down. 

Callie also still loves to dance and "sing." She turns the pages in her books when we read to her. She can point to her nose and mouth when asked. She loves to throw balls. Within 2 weeks of taking her first steps, she was walking everywhere. By the time she turned 13 mos old (4 weeks after her first steps) she is already attempting running. She does pretty good at running several steps and will then usually trip and fall. But it never bothers her. She just gets up and goes again. She also began climbing this month. She can climb onto stools, climb stairs (which she's done for awhile) and climb her play set. 

Socially, she is liking to play with other babies. This "playing" consists of touching other babies' faces and holding toys out to them.  She also loves to point at people when she sees them. Again she's at such a fun stage, and seeing her grow up & play like a big kid is so fun!

She loves to pretend to talk on the phone!

And she is really getting into wearing bracelets & necklaces!

SLEEPING

Callie's naps continued as normal. She took two naps each day, about an hour each (sometimes longer). She started sleeping a tad less at night....waking up about 30 min earlier each morning. This means she was sleeping 7pm-6:30am. 

This was the month that daylight savings time ended, so we moved our clocks back one hour. We started a few weeks before and slowly moved her bedtime 5 min later each night. So by time-change time she was going to bed at 8pm. But once we set our clocks back she was back on her normal schedule of going to bed at 7. The few days before the time change were the hardest because she was staying up so much later and was a little overtired. But after a few days, we were back on schedule.

Finally able to get her hair into a little ponytail!

However, I think we need to wait until

it's a bit longer before it's a "cute" ponytail!

LANGUAGE

Callie hasn't added any words to her vocabulary this month except maybe "uh oh." She said this twice after dropping something, but hasn't said it in a few weeks. So I'm not really sure. However, she definitely communicates to us through pointing and shaking her head no. And she will imitate sounds that we make.

At 12.5 mos, we let her start

sitting in her front-facing car sesat!

TEETHING

Callie got her fourth tooth this month. She now has her 2 front bottom teeth and her 2 front top teeth. She was a little fussy when getting her fourth tooth, but did pretty well. It wasn't too bad!! And no ear infections this month!!! Wooo!

HALLOWEEN

We celebrated Halloween during Callie's 13th month. Of course she had no clue what we were doing but she happily dressed up like a rabbit and stood next to her brother the Magician for pictures. She also contentedly rode along in the stroller while we trick-or-treated with friends! You can read more about this Halloween here.

This was a game that Callie loved doing for several days after Halloween.

She would put 4-5 glow sticks into the empty milk jug, dump them out,

and start over.  She did this over & over & over for 20 minutes at a time!

GROWTH STATS 

Weight: ~22.5 lbs

Height: ~30.5 inches

Clothes size: 12-18 mos, 18 mos

Shoe size: 3.5

Diaper size: 4

MILESTONES

These are milestones that Callie met in her 13th month (when she was 12 mos old):

• No bottles! And all cows milk!
• Walking everywhere, and starting to run
• Climbs
• Turns pages of books
• Can identify her nose and mouth
• Started riding front-facing in her car seat
• Got her fourth tooth!

Keep growing and learning sweet girl!

We love watching you change and develop 

each passing day!!