kaya- 16 months!

(written January 27th)_MG_1109_16monthsHeight & Weight: From here on out, we’re going to skip this unless she has a doctor appointment and she gets measured there. We are probably not all that accurate about it, and she isn’t growing super fast like she was in her first year, so there isn’t much change month to month.
Clothing size: Both 9-12 and 12-18 month pants, both 9-12 and 12-18 month onesies, some 2T tees (we like them long) and 12-18 month jammies.
Eyecolor: 
Hazel/Gray/Green.
Teeth: 
SIXTEEN! She has teeth G, F, E, D, O, P, N, Q, L, S, B and I, and all four canines are coming in right now, all at once. Poor baby.
Eating:
She does great with her yogurt and Cheerios for breakfast and a peanut butter sandwich for lunch, but dinner seems to be hit or miss (mostly miss these days). She is also obsessed with those cheese crackers with peanut butter filling as a snack. We’re also still nursing three times a day._MG_0852 Words: Dadada (daddy), Mama, uh-oh! Still lots of gibberish most of the time. She definitely understands everything we say to her.
Favorite things:
Riding her rocking horse, wearing shoes, dancing, blowing bubbles, playing with my measuring spoons in the bathtub, coloring and throwing the ball for Jax.
Dislikes: 
Her very least favorite thing right now is sitting in her high chair to eat. This has made meal time pretty difficult! She also doesn’t really want to lay down for diaper changes anymore.
Sleep: 
Still going to bed around 7 pm and waking around 7-7:30 am on most nights. Naps, though, are all over the place. This week I’m blaming her new teeth, but she’s had days where one nap was enough (whether it was 2 or 3 or even 4 hours long), and other days where she takes two shorter naps. I thought once you switched to one nap, you never went back? She is pretty cranky by about 5 pm though when she takes just one.
Milestones, etc.:
-Imitating everything. She’ll pat the bed for the dog to jump up on it, and try to put butter on our rolls for us. I’m amazed at how she can do something so well after seeing us only do it a few times.
– She’s been folding her arms for prayer for a few months now, but this month, she’s become a lot more consistent. She recognizes when we’re praying and loves joining us. Sometimes, she randomly “prays” on her own, and will giggle if we say “AMEN!”
– It seems like she’s just started “pretend play”. She’ll crawl around on the floor (differently from her infant crawling a few months ago), like an animal… maybe a puppy? That’s what I always think she’s doing, so I get down there and pretend to be a puppy too.
– She’s an ultimate climber. She can get all the way up into our bed, and now she’s obsessed with balancing on the edge of the toy box. Yikes.

Dear Kaya,

Your cheesy grin these days is just too much. I love the way you look at me and just crack up! You grab our bluetooth speaker every day (more than once) and say “uh-oh!” until we turn on some tunes. We usually enjoy waking up to classical music (sometimes you’ll even join in on the piano), and you still really love getting your groove on to Taylor Swift, One Direction, Luke Bryan, or Eric Paslay. I hope you’ll still want to listen to some of my favorite country music when you’re older and more opinionated._MG_0973

Love you baby girl. You’re my favorite.