Jenny at 16 Months

Jenny is doing really well at 16 months. She's doing great with her growth. At her 15 month appointment, she measured in at the 89th percentile for height and 55th for weight. David and both talk all the time about how big she is getting. So often, I'll just look over at her and can't believe how grown up she seems.

She's a great eater - not picky about anything and hungry all the time. Her favorite food is graham crackers. She'll ask for graham crackers pretty much first thing in the morning. When I come to get her from her crib in the morning it's "mama" to greet me, then "A..a..a" to ask where the cat is and then "crack, crack, crack" to ask for graham crackers.

She loves animals. She really likes our house cat. Probably even more than our cat, she loves ducks. She gets so excited when she sees ducks in books or at the park. She'll ask me to read her books that have ducks in them. We went to a toy exhibit at the dinosaur museum and she found a duck toy and she was so excited.

Jenny is a lot of fun at 16 months. She loves to play and she can keep up with Tessa pretty well now. They play this game that got named "baby rough house" where they will pull, push, and just generally tackle each other until they end on top of each other on the floor giggling. They love to chase too, and they'll run back and forth across the length of the house. Here they are running around on a sign that has fallen over near our house that has a bit of bounce to it.

I love that the girls can play together now. I love that they can play at the same level now. The girls both have a lot of fun playing together at children's museums. We spend quite a bit of time at the children's museum and dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point and we have been to the children's museum in Salt Lake City.

Her vocabulary continues to expand. I'm pretty sure I even heard her say a full sentence - "I did it" though it came out all together as if it were one word. With her improved communication abilities, she has come to expect to be able to express herself though so she gets more frustrated now when she tries to tell me something and I can't understand, which happens from time to time. She's still signing though too so that helps fill in some of the gaps.

She loves babies. Whenever she sees a baby she'll excitedly say "baby, baby". Often she'll spot a baby before I do even. She loves baby dolls too as well as stuffed animals that she'll call "baby". Her other favorite toys aside from dolls and stuffed animals, are probably floss or the TV remote.

She's such a sweet and fun little person. I love the fun she adds to the family. We feel so lucky to have her.