16 Months!

Zurianna is a whopping 16 months old!  I was trying to think of what to post for her 16 month birthday, but we haven't had any new major milestones since walking (14-15 months).  They say they usually work on mastering one thing before moving on to others.  She has definitely been mastering her running.  She loves when I tell her I am going to chase her and run after her.  It's not as much fun having her chase me, because she will start to chase me then will frequently stop and run back the other way so I can chase her!

She doesn't have any new words this month, but has been overusing the word "dat", as in "what's that????"  Over and over again.  She continues to point and say "dat, dat, dat, dat....." pretty much all day long.  I'm sure this will soon be replaced by "why, why, why....?" With equal annoyance!

I always say how impressive it is as they are starting to become little people.  Things that I never really noticed with my nephews and nieces.  For instance we were reading a book the other day and there was a picture of a small tractor in the background.  She of course asked me "dat??"  I told her it was a tractor.  We turned the page and she flipped back and said "dat??"pointing to the tractor.  So, I told her it's a tractor.  And she starts making her "vroom" noises and then drives a pretend car with her hand across her belly (where I always drive cars on her).    I have no idea how she knows what a tractor is, I assume maybe she could tell by the wheels...?  I don't know.  But it was pretty impressive.


Zuri has also had a massive "vision" improvement.  Meaning, she spots EVERYTHING and then wants it.  Literally, anything that is anywhere that can be seen, if it is something she wants, she will point and yell "dat.." until I actually figure out what in the world she wants.

Pointing at cars.."dat? dat?"

Her favorite thing to do is still play peek-a-boo, she thinks it is so funny.  She loves her cars and her little chair.  She loves reading and will read to herself, however she is very specific about which book she wants, so we spend a lot of "dat..." time on finding the right book.  Zuri really loves being outside and running around.  She is very social and wants to go and play with the neighbors kids all the time.  She waves at everyone, everywhere we go "hello" and "good bye."

16 Month Stats:
Height: not much change
Weight: 24lbs?
Clothing size: 2t
Shoe size: 4/5
Teeth: 4 (two bottom front teeth, one top front and one top side)

Likes:
Peek-a-boo
Jambalya
Veggies/potatoes/pasta from soup
Mandarine oranges
Strawberries
Potatoes with spicy seasoning
Eating from a plate other than her own
Likes getting food on a plate now (on her tray)
Carrying a bowl around with fruit in it
Crackers
Running around outside
Drinking from a water bottle
Children's museum/Library play time
DOGS!
Suckers


Dislikes:
Diaper changes
Clothing changes
Getting her hair done
Sitting still
Not getting what she wants
Mom not being with her

First time in her new rain coat!

Eating veggies on a plate..

The veggie area is empty, the chicken fries still there, now onto the oranges!

Children's museum

Children's museum a few weeks ago..

Just walked right up to this lady..

Headphones and cars..

Polar waiting for some food to drop...

She wanted to ride the motorcycle..

Separation Anxiety...

Zuri has definitely entered a new stage, one that sounds cute, until it happens.  Doesn't it sound so cute that your daughter wants to spend time with you?  She wants to be with you over everyone else?  Sounds adorable.  In reality, it is just the opposite.  Let me say, I don't mind spending time with Zuri, I mean we spend pretty much every day, all day together.  But when this is the reaction I get when I leave the kitchen without picking her up, it is a bit much!

It started a few weeks ago when I brought her to the gym.  She LOVES the gym, she loves playing with all the kids and toys.  She is such a good girl.  But now she goes in and as soon as I am about to set her down, she holds on to me with a death grip and won't let go and starts crying.  I tell her I will be back, but nothing dramatic and hand her off to a worker there.  Of course she quickly recovers once I am gone, but she is definitely dramatic.  At home, if I have to go to the bathroom she will scream and cry until she can be in there with me and sometimes she wants to sit on my lap, because being in the room with me is too far away I guess.  If Pedro is home and I ask him to go bring her upstairs or distract her so I can go upstairs, she wants nothing to do with him.  She screams and screams for me.  I don't pick her up all the time, which then leads to her pulling down my pants and screaming and crying.  Let's hope this is short lived!  Here she is super happy to see me when I came back in!

One other culprit that could be making matters worse, is that she just got two upper teeth and it looks like a few more might be coming in soon.  I am sympathetic, but it is one reason I can't wait until she can talk to tell me if it is something bothering her, or if she is just being needy.  I gave her a frozen pancake to chew on to see if it would help...

We have had some crazy weather here, 80 degrees, followed by 30 degrees and snow.  Zuri loves the snow and claps and gets excited when it is snowing.

 However, she equally loves the warm weather so that we can play outside a lot!  She LOVES playing outside.  And she loves the little chair I just got her, I took her in the store and let her choose the one she wanted (red or turquoise).  She won't look at me while I am trying to take her picture..

She spent a good amount of time moving the chair around and then standing on it.



I have also bought her a potty chair.  I know she doesn't know how to use one and I am not expecting her to...yet.  However, I got her one so she can get use to sitting on it.  She loves to sit on it!

And she was in a good mood at bedtime tonight, doing lots of "kissy face!"

Some random pictures, she really likes to carry around a bowl with her fruit in it, which she gets as a snack.

Loving the "boy" outfit...she looks rough, because most of this day was spent crying at me....

Another State For Zuri

Zuri has now completed her 13th and 14th legs of flights and has been in her 6th state (Missouri, Oregon, Illinois, California, Arizona and Colorado) plus Mexico.  We had a basketball tournament in Arizona so Zuri and Pedro came with me.

The flight out was pretty non-eventful, which is always good news when flying with a kid (note: not a baby).  She had her own seat and played with her cars, enjoyed looking out the window, watching some of her videos, and even fell backwards off her seat without even crying (don't ask us how this happened, we apparently were not paying attention).

The tournament went well.  She enjoyed Dunkin Donuts muffins for breakfast, and snacks and crackers  galore.  The players liked to give her crackers and snacks, actually Zuri would dig through the diaper bag during the games and find yummy treats to eat.

It did take some sneaking off to be able to go and coach my games.  She is definitely in a phase of not wanting me to leave her anywhere or with anyone.  She wants me to carry her or hold her and I can only get away by sneaking off.  She played with her cars during the games and other things with the players.  We had two teams, so one team would watch her while the other was playing.

I felt bad a few times because I had to wake her from naps to go to games, but she seemed to do well.  Our hotel had a water park, where Zuri and I played for a bit one day (Pedro went to the gym instead of playing with us) and the next day we were hoping to go back but Zuri took a long nap and so we didn't have time.

I didn't get more pictures because once she saw the water she ran off and that was it!

The return flight, lucky number 14, was not so lucky.  We had a bulk head seat and so we had lots of room for her to play while others were boarding.  Our flight was really late and I assumed she would sleep some.  She had other plans.  She was over tired and hyped up.  She wanted to walk around and play, which of course most of the flight was with seat belt "on" sign.  But even so, we didn't have an extra seat so she had to sit on my lap and we didn't want her bothering the person on our row, so she had to sit with me.  Zuri did not nap at all on this flight and had quite a few temper tantrums at me not letting her go and play, or letting her have Pedro's pretzels and peanuts.  The stewardess was super nice and wanted to go walk with her, however, that defeated my purpose of her not getting to go and "play" and disturb others that wanted to be sleeping...but I let her take her and that didn't last long because Zuri realized she wasn't with me about 2 minutes later and wanted me back.  Great fun.  I go with the flow on it and realize I can only do what I can do, so sorry to the people around me if they think she was annoying.

15 Months!

Zuri is the big 1-5!  She is such a big girl, size and personality wise, but still pretty wimpy!

Zuri has a large personality.  She is very friendly with strangers and other kids and LOVES to go to the gym daycare.  She is also quick to be mad or frustrated and even quicker to cry when the dogs decide to step all over her.  However, she doesn't act this way at all at the gym.  They say she is super happy and fun the whole time.  That's why I love going there, because I know if she is grumpy she will be much happier there!

One of Zuri's new favorite things is trying to ride Stella.  Yes, she climbs on Stella and rides her.  We have had many frustrations because she also tries to ride Stella when Stella is walking around the kitchen and stops for a brief moment.

No, I don't leave her unsupervised trying to ride the dogs.  But they have grown accustomed to her antics and don't seem to even acknowledge her.

The last few days she has decided that fruit is the only food she will eat.  The rest goes to the dogs, maybe that is why they like her so much!

She LOVES playing with the basketball and her cars.  And she LOVES her videos on the leappad in the car.

Spring is coming (it visited briefly but now winter has returned) and I have spent some fun time looking for some summer clothes for Zuri.  We still need some cottony shorts and some basic t-shirts, but I have covered her "fancy" clothes.  

Her 15 month doctors visit went well.  She definitely knows that when the nurses come in they want to give shots, she screams and screams!  This is how I entertained her prior to the doctor, since I had to wait forever...

Next week Zuri gets to go to Arizona (suppose to be 94 degrees!) to a tournament.  Hoping we have some downtime to visit the waterpark at the hotel for Zuri.

15 Month Size:

Height: 33 inches-98.87% (her 12 month was actually 32.25, not what I posted 32.75)

Weight: 23lbs 8oz-79.66%

Head: 18.5-88%

She fits right on the middle of her curve, with her body proportion, even though she is on the larger size.

Compared to 12 Month Stats:

Her measurements were:
Weight: 21lbs 14oz  78%
Length: 32.25 inches 99.97%
Head: 18.25 inches 85%

Clothing size:

2t (some 24 month are the same as 2t)

Words:

Nothing new..

Teeth:

Two bottom and one top front tooth is just coming through!

Likes:

Loves going to Library play 

Gym Daycare

Jambalya

FRUIT

Milk

Basketball's

Going to practice (Sunday's she gets to go)

Dogs

Cat

Her Blanket (this is always one of her favorites)

Riding her horse (or the dogs)

Cars-especially in a clear zipper bag

Musical things--musical cube we have and keyboard

Covering her eyes like we can't see her--she has fallen a few times while walking and covering her eyes

Walking

Crawling away fast!

Park (slides and going up out of my reach to the tunnels)

BATH!

Videos on leappad in car

Being outside

Dislikes:

Doctors

Getting knocked down while walking

Mom making me eat 

Mom saying NO--tears

Mom not understanding what I want

Not getting to go outside or do what I want

Sometimes getting diaper changed