15 month appointment

Evie had her 15 month Dr appointment yesterday. She did such a great job and the doctor commented on her good naturedness and ease with strangers since she let Dr Gray poke all over her:)

She is growing like a weed. She is now:

• 22 pounds (40%, up from 25% at last visit)!
• 31 inches (75%)
• 19 in head circumference (96%, up from 85%)

So she still has the super ginormous noggin'. She also knows plenty of words and can identify lots more stuff than the minimum they look for at her age. Even funnier, daycare did their monthly newsletter yesterday and it talked all about how so many kids are walking now but for Evie it talked about her talking! She is super chatty and really starting to get stuff (mimics most things we say, so we have to be careful). They said she talks in sentences to them and when they can't figure out what she wants she gets pretty upset. The newsletter predicts she may be the next President!

She had a little trouble last night/this morning being tired and crabby from her shots but it was weird. She would be playing and having fun one minute and then seconds later screaming and having a fit out of nowhere. We put her to bed a little early and I hear she took a nap this morning for grandma because she was still so zonked. Poor thing!

One fun thing we did yesterday was make the coffee table into a 'fort' by throwing a blanket over it. She thought that was a riot.

So here are some of her new, fun words!

• no--and she shakes her head and sometimes does a whole body shake to signify NO
• uh-oh--still a favorite even when it is an 'on purpose' where she says uh-oh and THEN something falls to the ground and also 'Oh no' as a new one
  
• apple, eat, juice, water, waffle, more, yum-yum (sounds like num-num), cracker, 'Os' for cheerios, cheese, spoon (which she is pretty good at using)
• mommy, daddy, nana, baby, nita and geon (from daycare), bubba (all dogs and PQ), emma, ally (cat and dog and grnadparents' houses), woof-woof, quack, ooh-ooh (monkey), moo, vroom-vroom (like every car we pass! plus strollers too), fish (and I swear she is starting to get the hang of saying Allison from playing with her pictures from her shelf most mornings)
• she can identify (and say for some of 'em): eye, ear, nose, teeth, mouth, hair, toes, belly button, shirt, sock, shoe, glasses
• outside, light, seat (for chair), ball, bouncy, rock-rock, bumpy, down, up (although she MUCH prefers to use down for both up and down), done, bye-bye, see-ya, off, book, that? (almost always said as a question with finger pointing), please, thank you, eewww (when something is yucky)
• she also plays 'give me five' and 'peekaboo'
  

Daycare says she is doing colors, like red, blue, green, yellow but she has been a little resistant to say them for us. I am sure I missed tons of things but this is a pretty good start. She says a lot of babble stuff that could be something but is still a little too unintelligible. If I missed one and someone wants to chime in, go for it!