She's 15 months old this week! Her hair is growing like weeds and tangles like brair patches and she has a tangled personality to match. We consider her very French because she loves to eat and eat and eat. She adores bread and cheese and creamy sauces and anything chocolate.
She isn't yet walking. "Why walk when that lady will just carry me everywhere?" but she's the fastest thing on all fours that you've ever seen. She can dismantle the kitchen cupboard in the time it takes me to type a sentence.
As for sleeping we have no complaints. She falls right to sleep when we put her down. She loves her room and her little bed and sleeps until 9:30 if you'll let her (which we do on Wednesdays and Weekends).
She finally took a bottle and really enjoys it but somehow we went back to full time breastfeeding and I'm not even sure how or why. It's completely unscheduled and she has no clock which is funny because I swore I'd keep her on a feeding schedule in a wistful post from a long while back but it never happened. So the bottle then is mostly just for water but sometimes I surprise her with milk too.
She seems to be speaking well, babbling all the classic words like mama, papa and bye-bye (or voir-voir which is Frenglish and what Little S said too at that age). She seems to like speaking and she really likes music. She always looks for musical instruments or little song making toys and then she dances flapping her arms up and down and clapping. Cutest thing ever.
She has a place in daycare for September 2010 which ironically is the same year she starts public preschool. You have to love the French! We got put on a reserve list just in case there's a little hour or two here or there between now and then so she can adapt but more than that is impossible. I was a little sad for her not to have a daycare like S had with lots of kids running around interacting and eating Playdoh. That was such a fun time for him. Hopefully I can meet some other moms with little ones her age so that she can have some friends before school starts.
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She's so gorgeous! I reckon she looks more like you as she gets older :)
My girl had the same tangly hair and personality to match. I used to find that a spray in conditioner (or just not rinsing the conditioner out fully) realy helped tame her curls. Bizarrely her hair has gone really straight now she's older. I have a feeling the curls will return though ;)
She really is adorable, even with the tangly hair. Angelina didn't start walking until almost 18 months, for similar reasons. She started a new daycare around the time she was getting mobile, and the 5 yr old girl there did EVERYTHING for her. All A had to do was grunt and point and her wishes were answered. It was only when she decided she wanted to keep up with her rambunctious cousins on a visit to CH that she decided walking might be fun.
She is adorable!
When did she start sleeping so much at night? (Sorry! I am obsessed with this.)
She started sleeping well when we made sure her room was good and dark and of course when we started putting her to bed at the same hour each night (and when we stopped cosleeping and hotel bedhopping this summer!!)
Patience...it will come.
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