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One year old
Aug. 10th, 2007 08:26 amToday is Jorie's first birthday! The past year seems simultaneously like a short time and like forever.
We're doing the usual thing of fretting about developmental milestones. Jorie still seems to expect to get most of her nutrition from breast milk, and hasn't been as interested in solid food as the books say she's supposed to be. She's getting more into it now, though. I think the big problem was just that she hated pureed food, and we didn't force it on her--now that she has enough teeth to start to chew things a little, food is getting more interesting to her. But she still sees it mostly as a novelty, not a major source of calories.
She's also finally learned to drink water from a sippy cup of the integrated-straw variety, which is a huge leap forward; she started rejecting baby bottles early on, and there's been no good way for me to feed her liquids when Sam is away.
The other side of the coin is that she's much, much more verbal than the books say she's supposed to be. The American Association of Pediatrics implies that a kid will probably start to say one or two things that sound like words about now. Jorie, though, has been talking for months and probably has a working vocabulary of 30 or 40 words, some of them pronounced very clearly. It's still all one-word utterances, with the exception of the occasional, possibly accidental mash-up like "uh-oh kitty" or "daddy bath"; grammar isn't there yet. But she can get her point across most of the time.
She's memorized the text of "Hop On Pop" to the point where she's starting to say some of the words in advance.
Jorie had a ferocious growth spurt between about 6 and 9 months, but she hasn't actually grown that much in the past three months or so, which means, I think, that now she's about average-sized for a twelve-month baby. I get the impression that this is common for kids who are mostly breast-fed--they tend to get their first-year growth in earlier than usual and then slow down a lot.
She's crawling faster than before, can pull herself to a standing position against furniture and cruise around the edges, and is getting very wiggly--this is the dangerous time when kids start acquiring additional mobility quickly enough to surprise you. We can't assume any more that she's even approximately going to stay put where we leave her. I keep thinking about the comment![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
iayork posted early on about how we'll end up reciting the mantra "kids bounce, kids bounce".
I have some newer photos, some of which might even be of passable quality, that I'll get around to putting up eventually. I think we're having our celebration tomorrow, but I don't think Jorie's going to stand on principle; it'll be another year or so before she understands anything about birthdays.
We're doing the usual thing of fretting about developmental milestones. Jorie still seems to expect to get most of her nutrition from breast milk, and hasn't been as interested in solid food as the books say she's supposed to be. She's getting more into it now, though. I think the big problem was just that she hated pureed food, and we didn't force it on her--now that she has enough teeth to start to chew things a little, food is getting more interesting to her. But she still sees it mostly as a novelty, not a major source of calories.
She's also finally learned to drink water from a sippy cup of the integrated-straw variety, which is a huge leap forward; she started rejecting baby bottles early on, and there's been no good way for me to feed her liquids when Sam is away.
The other side of the coin is that she's much, much more verbal than the books say she's supposed to be. The American Association of Pediatrics implies that a kid will probably start to say one or two things that sound like words about now. Jorie, though, has been talking for months and probably has a working vocabulary of 30 or 40 words, some of them pronounced very clearly. It's still all one-word utterances, with the exception of the occasional, possibly accidental mash-up like "uh-oh kitty" or "daddy bath"; grammar isn't there yet. But she can get her point across most of the time.
She's memorized the text of "Hop On Pop" to the point where she's starting to say some of the words in advance.
Jorie had a ferocious growth spurt between about 6 and 9 months, but she hasn't actually grown that much in the past three months or so, which means, I think, that now she's about average-sized for a twelve-month baby. I get the impression that this is common for kids who are mostly breast-fed--they tend to get their first-year growth in earlier than usual and then slow down a lot.
She's crawling faster than before, can pull herself to a standing position against furniture and cruise around the edges, and is getting very wiggly--this is the dangerous time when kids start acquiring additional mobility quickly enough to surprise you. We can't assume any more that she's even approximately going to stay put where we leave her. I keep thinking about the comment
iayork posted early on about how we'll end up reciting the mantra "kids bounce, kids bounce".I have some newer photos, some of which might even be of passable quality, that I'll get around to putting up eventually. I think we're having our celebration tomorrow, but I don't think Jorie's going to stand on principle; it'll be another year or so before she understands anything about birthdays.
