A few stats for my "number"-lovers...
- Height: above average (something between 60th & 70th percentiles)
- Weight: below average (around the 20th/25th percentile)
- Fine motor skills are 'advanced' (odd to say and quantify since kids develop differently)
- Language is 'advanced' (see above comment)
Basically, Sophie is lots of fun and is absolutely learning new things every single day. Not all things that we haven't taught her but she's picking up somewhere!
She loves to be read to, "reads" stories to her doll and other various toys.
Dancing is a daily activity- with or without music but it's much more exciting with music, of course. Dancing to music at the grocery store is perfectly acceptable. So is doing forward rolls into furniture as part of your choreography. And hopping and jumping.
Sometimes food just tastes better on a stick. We tried giving her a mixture of steamed broccoli, cauliflower and carrots with her dinner the other night and she ate everything but refused the carrots. I put the carrots on a skewer and she couldn't get enough of them.
Potty training can be hard work and confusing. Mom and dad get really excited when you take your diaper off to use the special Sophie potty but aren't as excited when you remove your diaper during nap time and go potty in the corner of your room. Either way, the diaper is dry. Isn't that the goal? Oh, and apparently it isn't quite the same thing to go potty in your diaper and then put your doll on the potty. (Obviously we still have things to work on.)
Sophie can identify 12+ body parts. This is a good thing most of the time. She has also identified the need to be like mommy. She likes to put "makeup"on her eyes, cheeks and mouth (all parts she knows) and now has her own little kit composed of a Crest White Strips carrier that has a mirror in it and conveniently holds Q-tips, too. She also knows about her feet but more specifically, her toes. She knows that toes can be polished and insists on having her nails done frequently. Occasionally with polish.
Animals are fun and animal sounds are even better. We have an iPad game Sophie loves to play that has animal cards that self identify and sound when you select them. Current favorites: Kooitty (kitty), Ssss (snake), goggie (doggie) and Nana (monkey, of course!)
She continues to be a little monkey- climbing everything she can. She enjoys summiting the outside of the stairs, the couch back so she can sit in the window sill and make foot art on the glass and anything else that is a "nonono."
Nursery is great fun and play group just keeps getting better and better! Playing WITH friends is lots of fun.
Sophie can still spot a balloon a mile away, loves pointing to babies and saying "baby!", nanas, saying (and eating) cookies and all things park. Before our next monthly update, Sophie will be a big sister and probably have a whole lot to say about that!
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