15 Months Old!

IT is hard to believe, but the Twins are 15 months! My how time flies.

Holy Molers! are barely visible.

They are starting to understand simple words and use them. They are babbling to Mom, Dad, and each other incessantly. He has Holy Molers! pushing through on the top and bottom of his jaw. She no longer wears Thudguard. She still tumbles, but she goes down on her butt instead of face planting.

Their 15 month visit with Dr. Pedia was uneventful. Dad's only concern was that Buggy prefers to walk on her toes and her feet have an inward pitch. The Dr. said that was nothing to be concerned about. She should outgrow it.

Elizabeth is 32" long, 19 lbs. 8 oz. with a head circumference of 17.76". She is darn near the 90th percentile for height and the 26th percentile for weight.

Ethan 32.5" long, 21 lbs. 13 oz. with a head circumference of 18.27". He is near 90th percentile for height, and 37th percentile for weight.

Their diet includes a variety of solid, semisolid, and liquid foods. Favored solids include macaroni and cheese, carrots, sweet potatoes, cheese, soft fruit and grain bars, a variety of puffed carbs ranging from cereals to Funyuns. Semisolid foods are whole milk yogurt based smoothies with added fruit. Liquids are whole milk (fresh) and powdered milk supplemented with toddler formula. This last is more for convenience to the Parent's than it is for their benefit. Powder stores easily and safely for long times and is in the baby backpack always ready to go. When they are out on errands, making a bottle to satisfy a hungry tummy is sometimes favored over snack bowls, and less messy.

Everyone comments on how well behaved they are. And Dad ensures that they are but insisting that they get adequate naps. A well rested toddler is a pleasant toddler. This has not done much to build relationships because it has kept him and them home more often than it has allowed everyone to venture out.

He is an early riser (like his Mom). She likes to loaf in bed for a while after waking (like well you know who). She pretty much sleeps through the night and self soothes back to sleep when she does get up. He still, on rare occasion, needs help going back to sleep. For him, he craves the security of being held. It is not hunger, though sometimes it is a dirty diaper.

They take two lengthy naps per day usually going down within a few minutes of each other, but only occasionally rising within a few minutes of each other. She'll take a short morning nap and long afternoon one, while he'll do the opposite.

They are extremely active and  loved to race each other up onto the couch where they regularly violate the "no standing up" rule. Buggy chose to dive off face first once or twice before deciding lowering herself feet first was better.

Speaking of learning cause and effect, for awhile it seemed that he was developing really well. Only recently has he decided that banging his face on the hardwood floor would be fun and profitable (if you consider pain fun and bruises on his cheekbones profitable). Dr. Pedia sternly lectured Dad about his non-interventionist policy claiming that the boy may be too young yet for a lesson in natural consequences. Dad wondered if she offered that advice as a Dr. or as a mother. Anyway, Dad made remedies and will actively prevent him from repeating self destructive behavior, at least where face bruising could occur. Arms and legs are still fair game.