The Moss Family: 16 Months Old

6/22/2014
20.8 Lbs
Size 3 diapers
Size 12 month clothes

It is getting harder and harder to get this little girl to hold still for a picture. When she sees the camera all she wants to do is look at the pictures, so most of the time the picture is of her walking toward the camera. She finally got a few more teethe through in just the last few days, so the count it up to 9. She has the 4 front top and bottom and the one molar and she is currently working on the 3 other molars. She has become a much pickier eater in the last little bit. I feel like she is just eating the same things everyday. She still loves fruit, but I am having a hard time getting her to eat veggies besides tomatoes. I guess now begins the sneaking in of vegetables. She eats a lot of mac & cheese, PB&J's, hot dogs, yogurt, and cheese. I hear she is not the only toddler that is picky and from what I'm told I was a very picky eater. Hopefully someday she will grow out of it. Her hair is getting so long. It has to be up in a pony at all times or she can't see. It's not quite long or heavy enough to tuck behind her ears. It doesn't seem to bother her to much when it is in her eyes, but it bugs the crap out of me, so as soon as she wakes up I put it into a pony.

We finally switched her over to her toddler car seat at the beginning of the month. She seems to like it. She loves to look out the window. She has started to really play with her toys. She entertains herself pretty well and has really grown to love all of her stuffed animals. She likes to try to feed and give her dogs drinks and she also like to brush them. I think it is about time we get her a baby doll. We were finally able to find her a little chair and she loves it. She like to sit in it, but she also like to have her stuffed animals sit in it. She also likes it because it is light enough for her to carry so she will take it to where she wants to sit.

She has learned a few new things this month. She can fold her arms, typically she folds them for a few seconds at the beginning of the prayer and then when we say amen she folds them a gain real fast .She loves to spin in circles. She also likes to do calf raises and squats (no I did not teach my 1 year old exercises, she just started doing them and so I just gave her the name for what she is doing). She is also a wonderful trash collector. She loves to take things to the trash can, which is awesome when I am being lazy. So far she has yet to throw away any toys, I'm sure that day will come. She hasn't learned anymore words but she does know what a sheep says, Baa. She still loves the song "head, shoulders, knees, and toes" but she now also loves "patty cake" and "the itsy bitsy spider" and she does pretty well with the actions, especially the "roll it and roll it" part of patty cake. She likes to wave bye-bye to the water when the tub is draining or a toilet flushes. Her favorite show is The Mickey Mouse Club House and she still loves to do her Donald Duck quack. She also loves to do the Hot Dog dance that they do at the end of each show. She likes to use the car keys to "unlock" any and every door. She also likes to press the button that pops the trunk open on the car. So pretty much every time we get in the car I have to close the trunk before we go. She has also started to enjoy coloring. She does pretty well with staying on the paper and it keeps her entertained for a while during sacrament meeting. She is still absolutely obsessed with her burp cloth. I have been trying to slowly wean her off of it, I don't want her to go into nursery with her burp cloth hanging out of her mouth. I'm glad she has something to comfort her, but it's not nearly as cute as it used to be. I feel like whenever we start to make any sort of progress, she starts to teeth again and everything gets thrown out the window. So maybe after she get her wisdom teeth in she will finally be able to get rid of it.

She had a neurologist appointment last week and the doctor said that her head was looking good. He wasn't worried about her head rounding out at all and he told us that he didn't need to see her back, so that was great news. On the other hand she had her first public tantrum at the grocery store the other day. Normally if she gets a little whiny I will give in and give her the burp cloth, well she was whiny to begin with and so she had her burp cloth from the beginning. That kept her content for the first half of the shopping trip, but when we got to the meat department she decided that she needed me to hold her, while we were looking for the pork butt and me trying to calm her down and her crying I had a couple of old women ask Brooklyn "why do sad." Why people feel a need to throw in their 2 cents, I'm not really sure. Eventually I gave in and awkwardly held her and pushed the cart while trying not to run into everything. I guess it is about time for me to decide how I'm going to handle those type of situations, give in or tough love. I guess we'll see how it goes next time. i was really hoping we had a few more months before the tantrums came. I'm giving her the excuse that she is working on 3 molars. Other than a few random things like this tantrum, she is still such a good baby and really who could ever get angry at such a cute thing.

I accidentally left her water bottle in the pocket of the diaper bag and she decided she was thirsty so she got down on her knees and got a drink all by herself.