13 Months Old

Check out that cute little tushie! Our home scale shows that Mena weighs 23 pounds.

Mena turned 13 months old and she had a follow up doctor appointment about her physical development. She's made some good improvements in the last month but not as much as the doctor was wanting to see. On November 5th we have an appointment with LPS for Mena's overall development to be evaluated. We'd like to have her evaluated now and find out there are no concerns rather than later find out there was a concern that we could have been helping her with.

For the last month we had a couple foam mattresses on our living room floor for Mena to climb on, but the weekend she turned 13 months Mena decided to start pulling herself up on the furniture. She's pulling herself up on the couch, chair, and end tables so we've taken the mattresses downstairs. It's nice having more room in our living room again. Mena does know how to crawl up on her hands and knees (rather than her usual army crawl) but Mena seems to be a child of necessity. If she wants something that she can't see from her army crawl then she will crawl on her hands and knees, otherwise the army crawl works just great for her and she doesn't see any need to do otherwise. My job as her stay-at-home mommy is to create a need for her to get up on her hands and knees and to create a need for her to stand up. So I no longer set toys out on the floor for Mena to play with. I set a variety of toys up on the furniture so she has to work to get them before she can play with them. It's a lot of fun watching her figure out how to get the toys.

In the last month Mena had 3 more teeth come in. Technically the doctor said they were in last month, but I didn't think they'd really broke through the skin until the end of September and the beginning of October. Mena now has all 4 front teeth.

Mena made the switch to a sippy cup on October 3rd. I'd tried introducing the sippy cup before this, but Mena wasn't interested. So on Saturday the 3rd, Mena woke up and I offered a sippy cup of milk. She batted the cup away. So I just sat with her in the rocking chair with the cup in my hand. After 20 minutes she took the sippy cup out of my hand and drank all the milk in it!