15 Months

It has been a while since I've done a purely child-development blog post, so you can move on to other things  now if you don't particularly care about weight to height ratios and spoon-feeding. (I saw a friend post on Facebook a few days ago how funny it is that we mothers are incredibly proud of normal development in our children.)

Josiah is 15 months old now, and I've been feeling a need to document some of the changes he is undergoing, because they are starting to get interesting. He had a visit to our doctor last week and was completely healthy and the doctor said we made her job easy. My job was a little less easy since my poor baby had to get three shots at the end of the visit. Wish I could say he took them like a man, but, well, he's a few years off from that yet. Josiah weighed 23 and a half pounds, and was 32.5 inches long. This put him in the 39% for weight and the 88% for height.

At long last he is getting in a few new teeth (I thought he was going to be a 6-toothed child forever), but strangely enough they are some molars, not ones closer to the front. He is also growing in his ability to feed himself, and lately has been refusing to eat what I feed him and wants to feed himself with his spoon. Mashed potatoes that were refused entry, oatmeal, and others have been warmly accepted if he can spoon them into his own mouth - or his own bib, or pants. A messy, but necessary, step to eating independence.

Josiah is walking, running and climbing like crazy. When he feels he needs to see what is going on, he pulls a little chair over from the kids' table and climbs on top of it so he can see onto the counter. He thinks standing on throw pillows makes him taller, as well. He likes to clap, give high-fives, and Adam is teaching him to fist-bump. He can identify his toes, his fingers, his nose, his mouth, and his teeth. Sometimes eyes, but that can be a dangerous prospect since he forgets to close them first before indicating it with his finger.

The not-parentally-approved method of playing with trains.

His word list is growing! Bup (up), Uh-uh (Uh-oh), that (used for everything, wanting to know what it is, does, or what that sound is), Daddy, duck and Kak-kak (can you guess what that one is?, clue: closely connected to "duck"), bye-bye. There are a few words that are very important to him that he cannot yet say - an example, overhearing the word "bath" leads him to run out of the room and go climbing up the stairs all by himself, assuming that he will be having a bath immediately. "Diaper change" sends him running in the opposite direction from me.

At library story time, looking mischievous

Josiah loves his big sister and imitates much of what she does. The good, the bad, and the ugly. Shredding kleenexes, though, is a skill he thought up all by himself. And in other important Josiah news, he loves his cuddly and blanket. Don't try to sleep without them.