We have reached the stage of “I do it.” This girl does not want help unless she really needs it. No more helping her feed herself which is always a treat with anything that is messy.
Emilia in her big girl car seat! Yes she is still rear-facing at 16 months because it is 5x safer than forward facing. The whole 1 and 20 lbs in the bare minimum for turning around but not the safest. Doctors are starting to recommend that you rear face your child until the reach the limits of their car seat. 2 and 30lbs is probably going to become the minimum in the future as Emilia seat will rear face until 40 lbs!
We no longer have a baby :( She is completely done using a bottle. Good for her but a little sad because I miss that she isn’t a baby anymore but a toddler. We still have the pacifier though and no immediate plans to break her of that yet. Breaking this child of the bottle was super easy. She had been down to just the night time bottle since August and hasn’t missed it since we ran out of liners and Daddy said that we couldn’t buy anymore. I think that starting the introduction of the cup early helped her easily transition at to reduce bottles when she turned 1.
She likes to have her own personal space. We cannot put our feet up on the ledge of the bath tub when she is taking a bath. She actually got mad at me the other day because I had to touch the shopping cart in order to push it. Emilia just didn’t understand the concept that the shopping cart doesn’t move unless someone pushes it and she cannot do it while she is in the cart. Silly girl!
Emilia is growing by leaps and bounds. At 16 months old now she is 25 lbs and 30 inches tall. She is starting to run now but only gets a couple of feet before she falls down. But you have to give her credit for trying! Her legs/feet haven’t straightened out yet when she walks so right now she is our little bow-legged girl with her feet that turn in slightly. She has to be walking for 6 months before any specialists will see her and she only has 3 months under her belt so there is still hope that it will correct itself on its own. She is saying more and more words everyday. Emilia is still a Daddy’s girl and Mommy is just her playmate it seems. I am definitely put by the wayside when Daddy gets home from work. Well pretty much everyone is abandon when Daddy is around. Maybe someday she will outgrow that but not counting on it anytime soon.
Emilia loves playing with her big legos. She can play with those things for hours. Which Lego building is a big thing in our family so she fits right in there! She also likes to play tea party and with her babies. She loves musical instruments. We went to the Grand Rapids Children’s Museum this weekend and she loved playing on the piano there. So it is nice to see that my musical love might have carried on in her. She has learned how to climb up her little tikes slide and go down by herself.
We had a busy summer of traveling. We went to Cedar Point several times with one more trip planned for this upcoming weekend. She tagged along on my scrapbooking retreat to Great Wolf Lodge and enjoyed the waterpark there. We made a trip to Chicago a few weekends ago so Daddy could to the baseball game with Brent. Next month we are taking our family vacation. We are going on a cruise and going to Disney World. Yes this makes Emilia’s second trip to Disney! But nothing is like seeing Disney than though the eyes of a child. She may not remember but we have pictures and she knows what is going on when we are there. It will be so much fun!
Emilia went to her very first movie today and did very well. We went to the $4 movies at Celebration Woodland. We figured we would be safe there since the theatre wouldn’t be very crowded. We finally saw the Disney/Pixar film UP. It was a very good movie and Emilia paid attention to most of it. Daddy had to take her out for a few minutes to stretch her legs but she came back to watch the end. She loved eating popcorn and drinking Mema’s pop! Every picture I take it looks like her eyes are closed because she smiles so big and squints her eyes together. Well it is cute but can be annoying when you want to see her eyes!
Wishing everyone an Early Happy Halloween! Emilia is going to be Alice from Alice in Wonderland and her cousins are going to be the Queen of Hearts and the Mad Hatter so that should be a cute picture!
