Friday, December 12, 2008
Still a Peanut
Squeaker had her 4-month checkup today, and she's still small. Hard to believe with the genes she's got, but she's in the 17th percentile for height (23"), 25th for weight (12 lbs 2 oz), and 30th for head circumference (40"). She's on track developmentally, and was healthy overall today.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
100 Words
We don't spend much time around other kids, so our perspective on toddler development is pretty skewed. I do get a monthly email from BabyCenter that includes some average developmental milestones. Friday's BabyCenter email said that the average vocab for a 22-month-old is 20 words.
"20 words? You've got to be kidding!" husband said. "Bean knows WAY MORE than 20."
So we decided to count. Not that we're competitive or anything ;), but we decided to write down all the words we heard Bean say this weekend. Our rules were that we would only count words we heard (not words we have heard in the past), and we wouldn't count mimicking (because she does a TON of that). Basically, she had to use the word independently and in the proper context. We weren't super diligent about capturing every word, but we easily made it past 100.
"She's BRILLIANT!" husband concluded. I'm more conservative in my judgment: a little gifted.
I think the most telling thing about this experiment is that we had nothing better to do than track our child's speech for a whole weekend.
"20 words? You've got to be kidding!" husband said. "Bean knows WAY MORE than 20."
So we decided to count. Not that we're competitive or anything ;), but we decided to write down all the words we heard Bean say this weekend. Our rules were that we would only count words we heard (not words we have heard in the past), and we wouldn't count mimicking (because she does a TON of that). Basically, she had to use the word independently and in the proper context. We weren't super diligent about capturing every word, but we easily made it past 100.
"She's BRILLIANT!" husband concluded. I'm more conservative in my judgment: a little gifted.
I think the most telling thing about this experiment is that we had nothing better to do than track our child's speech for a whole weekend.
Bean Do
Bean's sense of herself is growing daily. She has preferences now about what she eats, what she wears, her hairstyle, what she watches on TV... the list goes on an on. Her love of the digital camera is especially telling. When we bring it out these days, she immediately insists "Bean, Bean" meaning that she wants to see herself in the viewfinder. She wants us to take her picture and show it to her. We took this video today just after Nana had called. Bean watched the video about 10 times on the computer and would have watched more if we had let her.
Squeaker, too, is becoming more aware of herself. She's found her voice and likes to have conversations. She and Bean had this one today in the crib.
Squeaker, too, is becoming more aware of herself. She's found her voice and likes to have conversations. She and Bean had this one today in the crib.
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