Almost 18 month stats

Amelia is a few weeks shy of 18 months but her doctor’s appointment was scheduled for today so here are her 17.5 month stats:

Weight: 9.35 kg or about 20.6 pounds. She’s in the 5th percentile for weight.

Height: 78 cm or about 30.7 inches. She in the 25th percentile for height.

Head circumference: 48 cm. She is in the 89th percentile for head circumference.

Once again the doctor seemed unconcerned that she is so light, given her activity level. And Amelia was very brave when she got her shots. I promised her that she could have a box of raisins when it was over and she only cried when the shots were being administered. She then stopped right away when I asked her if she would like to have her raisins. I don’t know what we’d do without raisins. Amelia will do just about anything for them.

Her nap schedule has been a little erratic lately. She has been waking up early for the past week or so (between 5 am and 6 am) and so that means she’s pretty tired by around 10-11 am. Sometimes she’ll have a short-ish nap around then, but sometimes it’ll be an hour. So it’s hard to judge when to put her down for her afternoon nap because if it is too early she doesn’t sleep and if it is too late it can overlap with dinnertime. We’re not quite sure why she is waking up so early since she doesn’t appear to be having any other teething symptoms.

The doctor was also impressed that Amelia can do a two-footed jump on her own and has a vocabulary of about 60 French and English words. Actually, I would probably bet she probably knows closer to 100 words but I didn’t have time to write them all down before I went to the doctor so I made a conservative guess.

Each night before we put Amelia to sleep we sing “Goodnight Sweetheart.” Last week she started “singing” it with us sometimes. The first time she did it I couldn’t figure out what she was doing because she seemed to be talking through the song but not saying any intelligible words. However, once Amelia did it a second time Ian and I figured she was trying to sing it with us.

My dad comes to visit Mondays around suppertime. Sometimes my brother joins him. Amelia now knows this is the routine so all day yesterday she was asking when they would be stopping by to visit, saying “Babu? Dan? Rudy?” Needless to say she was very happy to see them once they finally arrived. She really seems to love my brother and wants him to be the one to carry her up to her bath and to read her books and to play with her.