Our little girl has grown and changed so much over the last 17 months. Daddy hardly recognized her when we returned from Florida and she keeps learning and changing more everyday.
One of the biggest changes for Mommy is no more nursing. We weaned Madison while on our Florida trip. It only took 2 days of screaming for her to figure out no more nursing. She asked for milk a few times in the days following the initial weaning, but didn't seem too upset when we told her 'No'. She is completely disinterested in cow's milk so we are working on calcium and other nutrients from different sources. After a few days of constipation, Madison learned she has to drink water or juice to make up for the breastmilk she is no longer getting.
Now she eats everything in sight to make up for those extra calories. She even sampled crab legs and shrimp on Christmas Eve (thanks to Daddy's sneaky hand). Sometimes it seems like she never stops eating all day long!
She also loves to dance, stomp her feet, clap her hands, read her books, talk (and boy do I mean TALK), and kiss. She is great at hugging and kissing now and loves saying, 'Hiii' to everyone. Madison is still doing great with her signing too. Her signing vocabulary is too extensive to list now, and her spoken words are even greater in number. She recognizes animals, foods (of course), and body parts. We are currently working on colors and numbers. She is working on sharing and other than the occasional frustration and hitting (yes- hitting not good) she is quite polite. She now knows how to sign and say 'please' and 'thank you'. Madison loves to count, but it always comes out, 'two, two, two, two, TWO'. She gets the general idea, but needs help with the order of the numbers themselves.
Daddy's favorite new trait is Madison's excitement when he gets home from work. She runs to the door when she hears his Jeep yelling, "DADDY!". It doesn't get much better than that!
Madison is learning to color too, and loves her colored pencils and drawing paper. Thus far she seems to understand only coloring on her special paper and not in books, or on walls. Let's hope we keep it that way.
Not too many pictures this month. We'll work on that for the coming months.
One of the biggest changes for Mommy is no more nursing. We weaned Madison while on our Florida trip. It only took 2 days of screaming for her to figure out no more nursing. She asked for milk a few times in the days following the initial weaning, but didn't seem too upset when we told her 'No'. She is completely disinterested in cow's milk so we are working on calcium and other nutrients from different sources. After a few days of constipation, Madison learned she has to drink water or juice to make up for the breastmilk she is no longer getting.
Now she eats everything in sight to make up for those extra calories. She even sampled crab legs and shrimp on Christmas Eve (thanks to Daddy's sneaky hand). Sometimes it seems like she never stops eating all day long!
She also loves to dance, stomp her feet, clap her hands, read her books, talk (and boy do I mean TALK), and kiss. She is great at hugging and kissing now and loves saying, 'Hiii' to everyone. Madison is still doing great with her signing too. Her signing vocabulary is too extensive to list now, and her spoken words are even greater in number. She recognizes animals, foods (of course), and body parts. We are currently working on colors and numbers. She is working on sharing and other than the occasional frustration and hitting (yes- hitting not good) she is quite polite. She now knows how to sign and say 'please' and 'thank you'. Madison loves to count, but it always comes out, 'two, two, two, two, TWO'. She gets the general idea, but needs help with the order of the numbers themselves.
Daddy's favorite new trait is Madison's excitement when he gets home from work. She runs to the door when she hears his Jeep yelling, "DADDY!". It doesn't get much better than that!
Madison is learning to color too, and loves her colored pencils and drawing paper. Thus far she seems to understand only coloring on her special paper and not in books, or on walls. Let's hope we keep it that way.
Not too many pictures this month. We'll work on that for the coming months.
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