Nine months:
Chloe had more than doubled her weight (from 8 lbs 9 oz to 20.5 lbs), and had grown 5.5 inches (from 22 inches to 28.5)!!!
10 months:
Chloe started crawling, recognized herself in the mirror, and became obsessed with the "baby games & books" on her mom's iPod
11 months:
Chloe she started pulling herself to a stand, crawling with proficiency, smiling while scrunching her nose, squealing at the end of a blessing or prayer, and learning some signs: 1st sign- Thank you, 2nd sign- More, 3rd sign- Please.
12 months/1 year old:
Chloe weighed 22.5 lbs and was 29 and 3 quarters inches.
She could sign:
- "thank you" (very proficiently...however when her chin/mouth area is occupied she has been known to pat the side of her head)
- "more" (occasionally....sometimes used it when she wanted to nurse since she hadn't learned anything else to say)
- "please" (once in a great while, but had somehow associated it with licking her hand and so when we asked her to say please the hand licking is what she usually came up with
- and she added "down" quite emphatically to her signing vocabulary
She continued to wave "hi" and "goodbye" to most people and some pictures and movies and even her pacifier and other inanimate objects.
She was back to pulling herself to a standing position to reach what she wanted, but she took a setback for a few weeks when she broke her broken tibia and fibula on December 8th just a few weeks before her birthday. (She didn't stand on it when it hurt her, she started again about a week before she got her cast off so we knew it was healing nicely. She got it off the first week of January.)
She began to love to "read books" during her 12th month, (both look at them herself and be read to). The first one she really enjoyed was "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" which we checked out from the library around early December. After that we checked one out that featured a little baby chick named "Coco." I got it because we liked the chick's name. :) She really seemed to enjoy the book and would seek it out.
She also liked (and still does like) a Baby Einstein book featuring a mirror on each page.
She had an uncanny knack of knowing just when to shake her head or nod, whether we're asking her questions or just talking to her...either that or she understood way more than we thought she did.
She had slept through the night without eating five consecutive nights (the first few of which were quite torturous for Rob and I since we had to get up every 15-20 minutes to go let her know that we were still here but that she's a big girl and doesn't need to eat in the night) when she broke her leg and our resolve flew out the window. Consequently so did her sleeping through the night. Helping her relearn that became one of our top new years' resolutions!! We accomplished it right around New Years and she was sleeping through the night again by the time she got her cast off.
She started to cuddle things and give them loves, especially her blanket, soft stuffed animals and baby dolls. I only discovered her baby doll affinity when we were at Target after Christmas and she started animatedly reaching for some talking baby dolls in the toy section. The funny thing was that she had very definite opinions about which ones she liked and which ones she wanted nothing to do with. The only other thing that she really wanted/reached for was a "Tickle-Me-Elmo"!! :) She spotted it clear down the aisle and almost jumped out of my arms trying to reach it. When I picked it up for her to look at, she started giggling. So now I'm on the lookout for an organic cotton dolly (perhaps knitted by one of the marvelous knitters I know). ;) ;)
P.S. I hope this post is showing up now on your computer now Jan....Maybe you should get your computer checked. ;)
we had a few complications and had to settle for a park
