Alice's Wonderland: 123

Thursday, February 21, 2013

123

The other day Alice said, "I'm counting" and then proceeded to count the squares on the back of one of the book blocks. FYI a book block is one of the boxes that comes with 9 "mini-books". The back of the book block has a picture of each of the covers of the mini-books, in a 3x3 grid. So, Alice counted, "1, 2, 3, 4, 5...7, 5, 7, 5, 7." Clearly she forgot about 6, knew something was wrong and continued into Aliceland.

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Firsts

Smiles: 4-5 weeks

Rolling (FTB): 12 weeks
Rolling (BTF): 4 months
Barrel rolls: 5 months (proficient)

Laugh: (disputed) roughly 15 weeks

Toy to mouth: adept by 15 weeks

Solids: 5.5 months

Unassisted sitting: 6 months

Commando Crawl: 6.5 months

Eating grass (and anything else she can grab): 6.5 months

Push up to sitting from prone: 7 months

Dancing: 7 months

Crawl: 7.5 months

Tooth: 8 months, just cutting through

Babbling (? bub-buh-buh-buh-buh, etc): 8 months

Respond to name, "no": 8 months

Pull to standing/cruising: 8 months

Stairs: 9 months

Clapping: 9.5 months (ish)

Walking: 10.5 months

Signs at 12 months: "all done", "milk", "bye-bye", something like "more"

Walking backward: 12 months

Words: "hi" somewhere between 10.5 and 12 months. Opinions vary over first official use. "book" ("bbuuh" 12.5 months). "all done" seems very close at 13 months.

Words at 15 months: Bunny (Alice's beloved); Daddy; Puzzle; Book (more clearly); Yay! (with the most delightful lilt!); Yeah!; Cat. Very clear babbling and intonation -- it's amazing how clear it is what Alice wants... Few words but amazing communication.

Sample of new words by 19 months: "Boo Voof" (her blue doggie); more; mine; no; "ide" (outside); tray; bib; spoon; fork; cup; cheese, beans, peas (Alice's three favorite foods -- she has many more food names down, but I'll refrain from an exhaustive list); "neh" (neck or necklace -- very popular); "ide" (slide); bath; "bough" (bounce! said with much enthusiasm); blocks; books; bubbles; car; hair; eyes; ears; nose; mouth; teeth; water; hot; beer (Eric's kid); lots of animals (bear, owl, mouse; cat, dog, sheep, giraffe, gorilla, etc. all pronunciation mangled); mamma; daddy; cat; "Blue" (Abby's given name, we have no idea why)... and of course, Alice's FAVORITE word, yelled dozens of times every hour: ZIZZIE!!