1 Year Likes and Dislikes...

Zurianna is very picky, independent and opinionated.  I can try to feed her twenty different foods and she won't eat any of them.  But if I sit down with something she will miraculously decide that was what she wanted to eat.  I literally can't sit down and eat without her mauling me and my food.  When I give her things to eat, she must have an actual opinion of what she wants because it might be the 4th food I offer that she eats.  And of course that food choice is different at every meal and every day.  I thought this type of pickiness didn't start until later in life?!

Right now Zurianna loves to eat (again, who knows which item at which meal)...

Jambalya!
Beans
Cooked veggies in a broth (I make homemade soup and she eats all the chunks out of it)
Tomatoes
Kiwi
Mango
She would probably eat most fruit, but since its not seasonal, we don't have too much on hand.
Cheese
Pancakes
Potatoes
Pizza
Formula (this is only an important factor because we are weaning her off formula to milk)
Whatever I am eating
Snacks (little puffs, cheese puffs, kale apple crocodiles)


Dislikes:
MILK-she dislikes milk so much that she doesn't want her sippy cup now because she thinks there is milk in it...great fun.
Any of the foods above if she is not in the mood!


In regards to her other likes and dislikes she is also pretty opinionated about these things.  For instance she loves the bath and all of her bath toys. She loves to be independent, but lately won't leave my side and hangs on my pants and wants to be with me every moment she is awake.  But if I go upstairs and she is downstairs with Pedro, she will play on her own the entire time!  She must have my number.

She loves:
Dollhouse (so weird that she loves dollhouses, I never did!)
Balloons!  She loves the balloons from her birthday party!
Leap Pad and Ipad.  The Ipad has more apps that she can play with right now.
Iphone...just to take it from me.
Carrying magnets or blocks and shapes from her toys
Carrying the people around from her dollhouse
The Zebra that makes noise when you push it's buttons (also a walker), she loves to look at us before she pushes the buttons that make noise and then laughs
Watching sports and clapping!
Me blowing on the bath recorder (flute type thing), she will keep putting in my mouth to do it
BATH
DOGS
CAT
Asking where her belly or mouth is (the only two she knows right now)
Music
Books (specifically the nursery rhyme book and the book that has things hidden under flaps).


Dislikes:
Not getting her way-which means she will then throw herself around, I have learned to lay her down gently before she does this and then just let her throw her tantrum.
Diaper changes
Naps
Dogs knocking her down or stepping on her
Dogs being in her way, although most of the time she just crawls over them, sometimes when she is being moody she will yell and scream at them
Trying to do something that frustrates her...which leads to screaming, hitting and throwing of the object



New skills that have happened recently:
Although she could clap for quite awhile, she loves to clap now.
Pointing out her belly or mouth
Putting objects in a bowl and shaking them (yesterday it was her doll from her dollhouse in a bowl)
Stacking objects (although this has only happened with measuring cups)
Hiding something in my hand and having her guess which hand...when she is wrong she knows to check the other hand.
Walking one handed with the walker-I swear she can walk, if she wanted to
Hands me items
Feeds me if I want a bite
ALWAYS FEEDS THE DOGS and will call them over and feed them.
Shakes her head "no"
Will climb onto the sofa via her chair

Zuri knows a lot of things-like if I tell her to pet Polar she will pet him.  If I tell her to pet Stella, she will pet her.  When I say lets take a bath, she will climb up the stairs and go into the bathroom (sometimes with a few side trips).  She will get you the balloon, look at her house and many other toys that we frequently name.

Zuri can only say the "d" words, I swear I have heard mama a few times but never with any consistency.  She will say "dada" and be looking at Pedro.  Or the other day I was feeding her and Pedro coughed, she stopped and said "dad".  She says "dog" but sounds similar, but different than "dad".  She usually mimics what we are saying and sometimes it sounds pretty close to what we said.

She is also a little devil.  Zuri wants to run to the bathroom if she hears that the toilet is open and the dogs are drinking.  If the stairs are not blocked she will go to them and laugh and take off up the stairs.  Anytime she knows she is not suppose to do something she thinks it is hilarious to do it.  She will look right at us, laughs and then do whatever it is she isn't suppose to do.

One annoying thing is that she can't figure out how to get off the sofa.  She can now get on via her chair, but she has fallen off face first quite a few times.  I don't know why she doesn't get it as I have tried to teach her over and over.

We have started milk in a different way, since she won't drink it.  I am now mixing her formula and milk, until I get to just milk (hopefully!).  Today we are at 50/50.  She has been drinking a lot lately.  Something like 24-28oz and with part of that being high calorie whole milk, I would think that it would be going down.  She is still eating a good amount of food.  Maybe she is on a growth spurt, or just making up for being sick.

Alright, hopefully we will have her 1 year appointment this week and I will have some stats!  She doesn't seem to have grown too much and I know she lost about 2 lbs being sick but I think some of that is coming back as she is eating like a crazy girl!  We are scheduled for Wednesday, but that is assuming Pedro doesn't have his back surgery on Wednesday.