1st Time Mum

19 months old…

08 Sep 2011 Leave a Comment

by charmainelf in Uncategorized Tags: 19 months old

So my “little one” isn’t so little anymore. She really is becoming a girl. She has started wearing size 2′s now.
I forgot to mention that at her 18 month check up at the Drs she weighed in at 12 kilos. Hurrah! She’s still in the 75% percentile.
Ysabel has begun to babble and point more and more. She is non-stop all day making babbling noises and animal noises. She “talks” and sings all. the. time. I love it!!
I was a little worried a month ago that she was not talking yet, but since then she has proven me that she is fine and normal etc, and she has really blossomed thanks to some activities that were suggested to me by a Speech Pathologist friend (thanks Gill).
We’ll see how she comes along in the next few weeks….

Ysabel STILL has only 6 teeth – although last night and today she’s been a little cranky and touching her gums so we may have some more on thier way.

I have introduced playdough and drawing the past couple of months but she just isn’t interested. Nevertheless we keep trying – everyday I do something ‘creative’ with her; I rotate between drawing with pencils and paper or her coloring in book, and playing with the playdough. We’ll get there.

Ysabel has slightly improved with interacting with other children. She used to just play by herself and be in her own play world, but today for example, she had a little chase game with our neighbour’s little girl. Very cute.

Ysabel has started showing interest in feeding herself so I am providing a spoon and/or fork with her meals so she can try to feed herself. Today whilst eating yoghurt, I was supervising her feeding herself with the spoon. When she was about half way done I was getting slightly impatient so I tried just me feeding her but she wouldn’t have it – she really wanted to hold the spoon and feed herself!

She has also begun to show TONS of affection to me over the past couple of weeks. She’ll run up to me and cuddle me and give me a scary open mouth, toothy kiss. I get very scared that she’ll bite me but I try not to get too frightened as I don’t want to discourage the kisses!

OK well thats about all the news I have. Photos….

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18 months Old…

14 Aug 2011 Leave a Comment

by charmainelf in Uncategorized Tags: 18 months old

Yay! Ysabel is 18 months old. Not much has changed to be honest; she still has only 6 teeth (2 bottom, 4 top), still doesn’t really speak, and is still a cutie!

Her hair is getting so long! I cut her fringe the other day as it was majorly gettting in her face. I didn’t do a very good job (see photos) but hey, it’s only hair – it’ll grow back!

We tried (or I tried) putting down one side of her crib so it was more like a bed, but she didn’t go very well. She kept getting out of bed and for the 5 or so days I tried it I was having to stay by her bedside and sing to her lots of songs until she would fall asleep – and it wasn’t getting any easier after 5 days so me and Christian decided she wasn’t ready, and now shes back in the cot with both sides on.

A really cute thing Ysabel has started doing lately is some animal noises and actions. She has learnt about 1-2 new animals a week. She knows the cow (goes “moo” while putting her hands on her head – this is supposed to be horns), duck (waves her hands while trying to make a “quack” noise), crocadile (claps her hands), elephant (she does a cow noise while sticking out an arm), and today we introduced the snake – she’s not too hot with the “ssss” noise yet.

Other than that exciting (sarcastic) news, she’s very healthy, happy and active.

Oh and she’s been going to nursery now for about 4 weeks – shes really well behaved too certainly doesn’t miss her mummy at all.

Photos… (videos to follow soon)