I Heart Evin: 19 months old

On October 20^th, Evin turned 19 months old. My baby girl is closer to being a 2 year old than a 1 year old. Wahhh!

I haven't done a monthly post since she was 16 months, so this is recapping 17, 18 & 19 months old.

Weight: 20.6 lbs (25^th %)

Length: 30 ½ inches (25^th %)

Clothes: 18 month

Shoe Size: 4

Diaper Size: 3

Eats 3 meals and 1 or 2 snacks a day. She would love to nibble on things all day long. We try to prevent constant snacking and just do a big snack after nap, but she usually has different plans than we do.

A few of her favorite foods:

Cheese

Blueberry waffles

Chicken (especially Chick-fil-a)

Cooked carrots

Oranges

Apples

Watermelon

Raisins

I say these are favorites, but there might be a day that she flat out refuses to eat a food from this list. She is a strange eater!

Loves food dipped in ketchup! Also loves ketchup by itself…

Still loves Puffs, but loves Cheerios even more. They are now our go-to snack for keeping Evin entertained while running errands or shopping. Yogurt Melts are also a favorite.

SHE FINALLY HAS SOME TEETH! She cut her first tooth right before she turned 17 months. She cut her other bottom middle tooth and one of her top teeth at 18 ½ months. They are SUPER slow to come all the way up. I am accepting the fact that pretty much everything with Evin is going to go slowly…Little Miss likes to take her time!

She is an 11-12 hour night sleeper. She sleeps through the night most of the time, but still has a couple of nights here and there where she wakes up. We try not to make it a habit of bringing her in bed with us when she wakes up, although it is definitely the easiest solution.

Takes 1 nap- in the afternoon, usually for 2 hours or so. Occasionally she will decide she only needs a 30 minute nap that day (ugh) or that she needs a 3 hour nap that day.

She goes through spurts where she is super easy to put down for bed at night, and then when she is super hard to put down. Mostly, I can lay her in her crib awake, but drowsy, and she will put herself to sleep.

She likes to be on the go. Days where we spend the entire day at home are usually kind of rough. She enjoys being out and about.

Everyone comments on her super sassy walk. She definitely has a little shake in her hips!

She is becoming a great little fit thrower. Throws little mini fits when she doesn’t want to take her PJs off, when SHE wants to be the one to flip the light switch, when you don’t move on certain things as quickly as she would like.

She isn’t a very big talker, but she does say:

Mama, Dada, Beckham, Ball, No, Car, Go, More, PawPaw, Mia (mah), Mums (muh), Uh-Oh, Bird

She is babbling more lately, but doesn’t try to repeat anything you tell her unless she knows she will be able to say it. Already a perfectionist? I hope not!

Will show you her tummy, hair, nose, ears, eyes, mouth, teeth, belly button (and they she wants you to show her yours), knee, toes, feet and hands.

Does lots of animal noises! Some of my favorites are the rooster (caw-cuh), the lizard (sticks tongue in and out), and when she grunts like a pig.

Still obsessed with Beckham, and the feeling is not mutual. Mia likes Evin much more than Beckham does, but she insists on trying to pet, kiss and hug Beckham all the time.

She LOVES to get into the pantry and get treats out to give the dogs. She gives Beckham a treat, and then takes Mia’s and holds it behind her back so Mia can’t get it. We have to force Evin to give it to her. Little toot!

We survived the first couple of months of my first year of teaching. Evin is doing mostly OK with it, but it was rough in the beginning. She would be SO clingy when I got home and would suddenly get very fussy. We think it was because she was scared I was going to leave again, so she would cling to me or throw a fit if I left the room. More recently, she has been OK but occasionally acts like she wants nothing to do with me, almost like she is punishing me for being gone so much. I try not to take it personally, but it’s hard!

Loves to have “races” and us say, “Ready, set, GO!” and she will take off. Sometimes she likes to be the one to say, “go!”

She occasionally says the word “no,” but she really loves to shake her head to say “no.”

If something happens and she gets hurt, she immediately turned to whatever it was (step, toy she ran into, etc.) and shakes her finger at it and says, “no, no!”

Mitch and I are surprised at how well she can follow directions, sometimes even 2 step directions. She’s turning into our little helper and will throw things away or go get things for us.

She LOVES her squeaky shoes and wants to put them on to wear around the house.

Every time I take Evin’s diaper off before her bath I say, “Ahh! Naked girl!” in a high-pitched voice. She has started beating me to it and will do a little high-pitched scream the second I take her diaper off.

It is so funny to try to watch her jump. She will bend her knees and put her arms back and stand up fast, without actually getting off the ground. She grins like she has just jumped a foot in the air!

Mondays and Tuesdays are Daddy/Evin days. They have gotten into a little routine of going to the park mid-morning to play for awhile. It is a good way for them to get out of the house for a little bit and Evin loves it!

Evin started going to an in-home babysitter for a few hours 1 day a week. Melissa kept Lane when he was little, and she keeps another little girl that is 2 months younger than Evin. We thought taking her to Melissa would be good for her socially. The first few times she went to Melissa’s she cried a few times and spent much of her time “tattling” on Kinsley by shaking her finger at her and pointing at her often. She has gotten better and now cries AND tattles less! :)

Loves to take people by the hand and lead them around.

Points at things and says “uhh?” so you will tell her the name of whatever it is.

Chick-fil-a is her favorite meal!

At her 18 month check-up her doctor said she is a late bloomer all around. She has done almost everything just a tiny bit late and talking seems to be that way, too.

If we ask, “Who loves her Dada/Mama?” she raises her hand in the air.

Loves little plastic figurine toys.

She loves putting my bracelets on and taking them off, over and over.

Evin started going to the church nursery and does fine for the most part. The second we walk into the building she starts whining and buries her head into us. She cries when we leave, but stops pretty much as soon as we get around the corner. One of the nursery workers, Miss Molly, has a son that has CHD. It is SO much easier to leave Evin when we know that she is somewhat familiar with her condition!

Loves to wave/smile at people and kids, but she wants to be the one to initiate it. If someone approaches her, she usually shies away.

Loves to read the same books over and over. Especially loves her counting book where you pop the buttons to count and her first words book where she points out the objects as you ask where they are.

Always wants to shut the door. If we go in her room, she shuts the door behind us. She always shuts our closet door, the pantry door, or any door that is open, really.

She gets really bothered if something is how it shouldn’t be. One day with Melissa, Kinsley had one shoe on and one shoe off. It bothered Evin forever and she wanted it fixed. She has a little OCD in her!

I really don’t think time could go any faster than it has been. Working makes the time fly by SO quickly, but it also makes me truly cherish the time that I have with Evin. We love, love, love our sweet girl!

Kyla took all the above pictures when Evin was 18 1/2 months and I LOVE them. She did such a good job with such a difficult & on-the-go client! ;)

Here she is at:

17 months