Saturday, October 6, 2012

Aurora - Nineteen Months



Height :: 33 1/4" (75%)
Weight :: 24.7 lbs (50%)
Head Circumference :: 19.2" (90%)

This girl is really starting to be able to communicate her thoughts.  We still get a lot of grunting, but if asked she usually can tell us what is going on.  And thankfully if we don't quite understand her she is very patient about leading us and showing us what she needs.



She is great about asking Please, and saying Thank you Mama or Thank you Dadda.  If you are in her way and she wants you to move she will say "beep beep, dadda (or mama or chile etc)

Everything is "no" these days.  It really doesn't matter what you ask, sometimes she will even reply no to something we ask her and then realize that she really wanted it and promptly change her mind.  She usually loves to play and wrestle with Dadda, but sometimes she just isn't in the mood and will tell him "no, no Dadda, no." It's pretty funny.



Football season is upon us again and Matt is teaching Aurora all about the Broncos, or Brown Shoes as she calls them ;) I was watching the two of them watch football the other day and it cracked me up because Aurora gets to excited mimicking Matt wave his hand at the screen and yell "go go go" to some player or another.



Aurora love to sing!  She has always loved music and dancing, but she is really enjoying singing along with us to some of her favorite songs.  Some of her favorites these days are ABC's, Bingo, Mary had a Little Lamb, Twinkle Twinkle, Puff, and the Itsy Bitsy Spider.



Unfortunately this increased interest in communicating is not only limited to words and talking.  She has recently started screaming... a lot... and usually in public.  Luckily it is almost never upset screaming, only excited screaming, but that usually doesn't endear us to other people at stores or restaurants...



She is also really beginning to take in what she is seeing.  Until now I think when she did watch any TV she was just mesmerized by the flashing lights.  A week or so ago, Dad got Rora up from a nap and decided to finish out the TV episode he was watching and apparently the alien on screen scared her so badly that she is still walking around saying "TV? TV? No, no TV"



Aurora went through a growth spurt this month.  Our refrigerator doors used to clear her head when she was hanging around...don't ask me how I know that they don't anymore...




She has really taken an interest in coloring in the past few weeks.  Before now she didn't really know what to do with markers or crayons (besides try to eat them) and would give up quickly.  Now you can't get her to stop coloring.



We were dealing with early early mornings at the beginning of this month, back on track now with a bedtime around 7/7:15 and waking up around 6:15/6:30.