Ivy || 21 Months Old

We are in the final countdown to age TWO, and official toddlerhood! Here is a little recap of the last three months.

Ivy at 21 months

Weight: ?? (25lbs. at 18 months) 

Height: ?? (32.5 inches at 18 months)

Personality: Smart and snuggly

 

19 Months Old

 

 

Started cutting her canine teeth

Started calling her pacifier "ama" 

Consistently saying Mama and Dada

Said her own name

Visit from Marmee & Poppa

Celebrating Thanksgiving and enjoying the food

Working hard on playing legos, monster trucks, and trains

Bad cold and first tummy upset 

Cocomelon "sick song" obsession

First visit to see Santa

 

Favorite activity: dress-up 

 

 

20 Months Old

 

 

First time flying (four flights)

First time going to Kansas and visiting extended family

First Christmas opening her own presents

First time meeting her baby cousin, Olivia

First time on a tractor

First time banging on a real piano 

First time for an overnight at a hotel

First time playing in the snow and sledding

Giving unprompted hugs

Loves looking for the moon in the night sky

 

Favorite activity: stickers

 

21 Months Old

 

Started expressing interest in using the potty

First time trying on underwear

Started calling Kip, "bruh" (brother)

Loves playing "naked baby" after bath

Starting to be a little bit naughty

Learning hide and seek 

Starting to sing along to songs

Visit from Marmee

"no way!" 

"What?!"

Bad cold and cough

Cooped-up inside because it's was so cold outside

Attachment to Kee-ka

"Ha pe" (help please)

Emphatically shaking her head and grunting "yeah"

Favorite activity: binge watching Cocomelon

 

Eat 

Ivy has remained a picky eater. She rarely ever touches what we offer for dinner. She prefers yogurt and fruit in any variety (fresh, canned, dried, freeze dried). Blueberries are still her favorite but she loves grapes, strawberries, raspberries, mandarin oranges, apples, and applesauce. She is a forever snacker. She is always trying to get into the pantry to pick herself a snack. She loves granola bars, dried fruit, yogurt melts, goldfish, cereal, crackers. She likes cheese and salami and quesadillas. She also has a sweet tooth and loves Popsicles, chocolate, lollipops, and cookies.

Sleep

Ivy's schedule has remained fairly consistent this year which is such a change from her first year. She takes one nap a day from around 10:30 to 11:30-12:30, depending. She loves her fleece sleep sack, paci, and kitty cat in the crib. We put her to bed around 6 pm but recently started pushing it to 6:30 pm since she started waking up around 5 am. Our hope is that a little later bedtime will save us dropping the nap before two. She has never needed as much sleep as Kip did at her age but we want to hold onto that nap at all costs! Her bedtime routine is hugs and kisses with everyone, brushing teeth, one book or a short rock and then to bed. She usually moans herself to sleep. She does wake up in the night fairly frequently but Dan or I just rub her back or rock her for a bit and she goes back to sleep. Like her brother, she rarely ever sleeps past 6 am. 

Play

Ivy keeps up with Kip, no problem. She loves to play with him and when he refuses to include her she manages to figure out how to play along side him. She loves trains, monster trucks, hot wheels, Legos - anything he does. She also ADORES to dress up and regularly plays with her stuffed friends by feeding them and pushing them around in her stroller. She loves coloring and stickers and play doh. She loves to run around and be outside and is entirely proficient at riding her push car down the block. I have a sense she will progress to a trike quite quickly.

 

Talk

Ivy's biggest leap in the last three months was in her communication. She is progressing so quickly with her speech which is so different from the way Kip was at her age. I know they say girls develop more quickly than boys in speech and that is definitely the case. She is saying full sentences and expressing needs and wants. She tattles on Kip and throws full tantrums. A lot of what she says is hard to understand unless you are familiar with her. We have no trouble interpreting her little pronunciations and I adore her high pitched little birdie voice.

 

Ivy bean is sweet and sensitive, emotional, stubborn, a true snuggler, and the most lovable doll baby ever. She knows what she wants and she will get i! I cannot believe she is nearly two!! Time is dissolving!!!!