{alligator: JellyCat // top: Carter’s // jeans: babyGap // shoes: Keds x Rifle Paper Co.}
{And the outtake… that finger is just the same size as her nostril, so it must belong in her nose, right?}
{month thirteen} How has it already been a month since Daphne turned one?! It seems like yesterday and forever ago at the same time.
Daphne LOVES dancing to music and it is the sweetest thing I have ever seen. She claps her hands and sways her hips. I have been turning on music on Spotify on either my phone, the TV, or our speaker in the kitchen during play time or when I am (trying to) cook dinner. And Daphne just gets so excited! When she sees the display on the TV come on (or the lock screen on my phone which is a picture of her and Eloise) she waves. Guys, this age is the best.
Daphne is also pointing a lot with her pointer finger, the same one she uses to pick her nose. If there is something that she wants or sees, she will point at it. There is also a lot of waving happening these days. Daphne can wave “hello” and “bye-bye,” mostly on command when she hears those words. Sometimes though we are already gone from the person we were saying good-bye to before she will wave!
Peek-a-boo is still a big favorite around here, especially when someone is sitting in a chair and Daphne is standing behind it. She loves to peek around the chair and then laughs and giggles when you say “boo!” or “peek-a-boo!”
Daphne doesn’t really stand in her crib once she is awake until someone goes down to her nursery to get her up, but when she does, she has learned that she can turn the light switch on & off, plus move the dimmer switch. She is better at turning the light off so we haven’t had the issue where she will turn ON the light when she is supposed to be sleeping, though I foresee that in our future!
I am really into routines for not only my sake but for consistency for the girls, and Daphne is proving to be good with routines too. It is amazing what she is learning to do based on the familiarity of doing the same things. When we get out of the car, she will put any toys that she was playing with, including her paci, into the little bin we keep between the car seats; she will rub her hands together after wiping her nose or a diaper change when I am using hand sanitizer (hanitizer, according to Eloise) or washing my hands; she will put her arms out and back behind her for the high chair straps before meal or snack time; she will put her paci and lovie into her crib when we are leaving her nursery; and she will find a book off of her bookshelf to read before bedtime.
Aaron taught Daphne in the past few weeks how to blow kisses and it’s so cute. Sometimes her hand is near her mouth (and looks like the sign for “thank you”), but sometimes it is on the side of her head near her ear! Either way, adorable.
Daphne is also learning her body parts and where they are. She knows where her head is, and if you say “bonk” she will pat the side of her head. She knows that shoes go on your feet and tries to put them on herself. And we are working on other body parts which it seems like she picks up so quickly!
Daphne LOVES LOVES books just like her big sister which makes my mama-heart so happy. She will sit and read them for 5 or 10 minutes at a time. And will bring a book (or two) over for you to read though she likes to turn the pages pretty quickly! She also recognizes when books are upside-down and will turn them right.
Last week Daphne was taking her usual morning nap but then blew thru her afternoon nap for two days in a row. I know it is a little early for her to drop down to one nap (that generally happens between 15 and 18 months) but every kid is different so I thought I would take some action against her nap strike. So I tried keeping her up in the morning thru her usual nap time, had an early lunch, and then I put her down in the afternoon about an hour earlier than she usually goes down. We were successful for two days of this, but she seemed so tired all day. On the third day I switched her back to her regular schedule with two naps and she napped so well! But then just yesterday (the fourth day) she slept in the morning, but not in the afternoon. Hmm. Not quite sure what to do. The afternoons and evenings are much harder when she doesn’t get that afternoon nap, so if she is only going to nap once, I want it to be in the afternoon rather than the morning. We’ll see. I just need to feel this out and every day may be different depending on what we need to do!
Starting this week, Daphne and I will be doing a music class once a week in the morning while Eloise is at school. I didn’t do any regular music classes with Eloise, but she loved the drop-in classes that we occasionally did. I think Daphne will really like something music-based and it will be nice to have something that she and I can do (without big sister) and maybe meet some friends her own age (since we didn’t do a PEPS group specifically for her). We are doing this Chickadee Music Together class in Phinney if anyone in (North) Seattle is interested!
One of the bigger changes we made this past month was not warming up Daphne’s milk during the day. We still warm up Daphne’s bedtime bottle that she gets but for her milk with meals and a snack, we just give it to her in a sippy cup straight out of the fridge. She is still adjusting to the temperature change since she spent an entire year (her whole life!) drinking milk that was body temperature, but it is going pretty well and it is SO CONVENIENT! Sometimes she will take a big drink and the entire mouthful will spill out of her mouth (and hopefully into her bib pocket) but generally she drinks it well cold. We will eventually drop the bedtime bottle so I am not worried about her taking this cold since drinking cold milk before bed sounds no bueno! {Side note: When Eloise turned one, her pediatrician told us we should transition her off of a bottle, stat. But at Daphne’s one year wellness check, her doctor told us that around 15 or 18 months we should be transitioning her completely off of a bottle and spending the next few months using a sippy cup. It’s crazy how different things are in just 2.5 years!}
And finally, Daphne’s fourth bottom tooth has made an appearance and is a little tooth bud. It didn’t seem to bother her too much, but any extra fussiness or nighttime waking we basically blame on teething! It looks like her incisors may be making an appearance soon because you can see them under her gums, but there isn’t anything to indicate her molars are coming soon (which Eloise was cutting at this point).
{weight} i would guess 25 pounds.
{hair} blackish brown.
{teeth} four bottom teeth, top four teeth.
{eyes} dark grey/brown.
{clothes} some 12 months, 12 to 18 months, 18 months (Carter’s), some 2T. (I am buying 2T in tops for the length – that belly Daph! – but no bigger than 18 months in pants because they are so long on her.)
{diapers} size 4 {from the honest company}.
{feeding} 2 to 4 oz sippy cups of milk at breakfast, lunchtime, after nap time, and at dinner. bedtime is around 7:30 with a 4 oz bottle.
{likes} watching and chasing the Roomba, picking her nose, eating, bath time with Eloise, watching big kids or babies, crawling, pulling up to her knees or feet, spinning on her back and belly, teething rings, chewing on anything, sitting in her highchair, banging on her tray, staring at her quilt (from Amanda), rattles, nursing, riding in the car (usually), her big sister Eloise, Sadie, singing, lights, paci, being bounced, being tickled, talking, her Lovie.
{dislikes} having a hat on in the car seat, seeing some type of food on a plate that she doesn’t have on her tray, having gas, lying down flat, being hungry or tired, not having a bottle immediately after seeing it, having her face or nose wiped off.
{nicknames} Daph, Daph Daph, Daphers, Bug, Snorty, Baby D, Daphne Doo, Daph-a-doo, Love, Lovebug.
And here is Eloise’s thirteen month update!
Happy Thirteen Months Daphne!
M
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