Height: 29.5 inches (2%)
Weight: 19 lbs, 7.5 oz. (10%)
Head is around 50%
She is tiny. To put it in perspective, she's gained three inches and less than three pounds since she was 9 months old. She is tiny and I love it. We get comments all the time about how small she is, especially when people see her running around. “Isn’t she too young for that?” Nope, she’s just a peanut.
Lily is finally some molars! After
spending about 6 months with four teeth, she’s finally filling in her mouth. (At the time of posting, she officially has 6
teeth—4 on top, two on bottom—with a couple molars cutting through. Woo!) Not
that having mostly gums has stopped her from eating. She can eat most anything,
her favorite foods being crackers, fruit snacks, blueberries, strawberries, cheese
and meat. She really likes meat.
She has a large vocabulary. Some of my favorite words she
says are dog, hot, Da Da, Ma Ma, thank you, cracker (“craka”) , banana
(“nana”), gorilla (“lilla”), all done, and elbow. She also knows many of her
body parts (eyes, ears, mouth, nose, tongue, hair, head, toes, hands) and
recently learned elbow, eyebrow and knee. Every day she surprises us with new
words. I love this stage. She is even starting to string words together: "Hi Mama." She is a chatterbox at home but is fairly shy at other places. We've been attending the same gym for the last 8 months and until a few weeks ago, the people there had no idea she could talk.
Lily LOVES music. Loves it. The boys will be watching TV and
she’ll walk over to the sound system, turn it to the radio (yes, she knows how
to do that!) and will start jamming to the music. It. Is. Hysterical. She loves
to dance and will start wiggling around whenever she hears music. Her favorite
songs we sing right now are The ABC’s, The Itsy Bitsy Spider, and Little Bunny
Foo Foo. She can do some of the motions for the spider song and anytime she has
a bunny in her hands, she starts hopping it around and trying to sing the Foo
Foo song. She also tries to sing the alphabet song and does a good job
following the tune.
She knows what letters are. No, she doesn’t know their
names, but she knows they make individual sounds. Whenever she sees a word on a
shirt or letters on a box, she’ll point to them and start making sounds as she
points to each letter. Floored. It must be a girl thing as my boys have never
been so interested in letters. I’m seriously considering trying to teach her
the actual names and sounds of each one since she’s clearly interested.
She is giggly! She cracks herself up and when she laughs
really hard, she sounds like a lamb. Since she was a baby, her laughs and cries
have this bleating to them that’s hard to explain, but something I don’t want
to forget.
Lily loves her brothers. She wants to be right there in the
thick of things—sitting next to them on the computer chair, playing with their
toys, running around chasing the dog. They’re not always a fan of her constant
company, but the boys love her right back and think she’s the cutest thing
ever. Jude especially tries to involve her in most things and can be found
carrying her around. Even Lance, who isn’t a huge fan of little kids, thinks
Lily is sweet and will love on her all the time. Cole used to be the one to
snuggle her and croon, “she’s so cute!”, but now that she’s older and able to
get into his things, he’s not so sure. Lily will purposely pick on Cole and
sneak in while he’s playing trains and ruin his carefully laid track or steal
his trains, so I can see where Cole might think she’s more of a menace than a
princess.
She is a firecracker. There is so much energy and personality
in her tiny body. Lily is not one to be pushed around and if she thinks someone
is taking her toy or doing her wrong, she will let you know. Loudly. She is
squealy and squeaky and completely adorable. Except when she hits other kids.
Yeah, that’s not so adorable. I’m crossing my fingers that phase passes soon.
George is totally whipped by this tiny girl. I love watching them interact. Lily loves her Daddy, too, and is always so excited to see him when he comes home or in the morning when I bring her to bed to snuggle for a bit before we begin our day. She's so heartbreakingly sweet, squishy and huggable it hurts.
To say we love Lily doesn't do it justice. We adore her. We all do. From her squeal to her long eyelashes, it's hard to believe so much cute can be contained in such a small person. We are loving watching her personality unfold. She's a joker like her Dad and loves to be silly. We cannot get enough of this baby. I wish I could bottle up this time, maybe pause it for a bit and enjoy every second I can get. This age has always been my favorite with all the kids: they learn new things every day and are your little shadow. They still think you're the most amazing thing in the world and their unconditional love is a balm that heals all wounds life inflicts. A home isn't a home without a toddler running around and we are loving our fourth venture into this phase.
Please don't grow too fast, Lily. Stay little for a bit longer...
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