Our little gremlin, or "gremmy" for short. At 18 months toddlerhood and your strong will are coming in hot. You don't want to be left out of anything and work hard to keep up with your brothers. You are fiercely opinionated and have no qualms about making your desires known. Your vocabulary is getting vast quick. Some of your most used words include "me, yeah, mama, dada, nana, papa, more, no, hi, see, uh oh, and sit." You are constantly on the go and quite good at playing by yourself.
You still drink from a bottle and use a binki. You sleep well, generally 12 hours at night from 6:30 to 6:30 or so. We recently gave up the early morning/middle of the night bottle. You take an afternoon nap for 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 hours. We stopped nursing around 15 months. I thought I would breastfeed for longer but it felt like a natural stopping point. It was hard to nurse and read to you at the same time and getting into a bedtime reading rhythm felt most important. You like to read, though settling on one book is a struggle. Establishing a bedtime routine has been a challenge as you are very opinionated about which part of the room we are in and your coveted location changes nightly. Sometimes we read and you drink your bottle in the chair, sometimes I lay you in your crib and read to you while you lay there, and sometimes there is nothing that works so I have to put you in your crib and close the door.
You still drink from a bottle and use a binki. You sleep well, generally 12 hours at night from 6:30 to 6:30 or so. We recently gave up the early morning/middle of the night bottle. You take an afternoon nap for 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 hours. We stopped nursing around 15 months. I thought I would breastfeed for longer but it felt like a natural stopping point. It was hard to nurse and read to you at the same time and getting into a bedtime reading rhythm felt most important. You like to read, though settling on one book is a struggle. Establishing a bedtime routine has been a challenge as you are very opinionated about which part of the room we are in and your coveted location changes nightly. Sometimes we read and you drink your bottle in the chair, sometimes I lay you in your crib and read to you while you lay there, and sometimes there is nothing that works so I have to put you in your crib and close the door.
You have quite the scrunch face and make it frequently. You are an incredibly adaptable child and do well with changes in routine. We give your birth order credit for that. Your favorite foods are mac and cheese, fruit and frozen peas. Some days you don't eat anything, some days you eat a lot, most days you throw everything I put in front of you on the ground. You eat goldfish and raisins much more than I would prefer. Your brothers are allowed to have snacks after a nutritious meal. It's impossible to enforce that rule with you at such a young age and if snack foods are around, you get in on that. You have a single minded determination and can throw an epic fit if you don't get what you want, which is quite often. You've been teething for what feels like six months straight and every tooth has been hard fought. You were sick constantly this winter and had two rounds of antibiotics for a double ear infection. You have two brothers who protect and love on you constantly. The dynamic between the three of you makes me more proud than almost anything else as a parent.
You're adorable, strong willed and wild at heart. I couldn't love you more. You bring light and spunk wherever you go and I'm confident those qualities will stay with you forever. I love watching you take on the world, it's certainly are more beautiful place with you in it. You are loved, you are worthy, you belong. You are everything I've ever dreamed of.
xoxo,
Your Loving Mama
xoxo,
Your Loving Mama
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