{"id":5575,"date":"2010-07-19T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=5575"},"modified":"2010-07-19T18:47:42","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T02:47:42","slug":"13-year-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=5575","title":{"rendered":"13-month update"},"content":{"rendered":"

This month brought some big changes and firsts for Avery: She took her first steps<\/a> (more on that in a bit), learned to clap<\/a> and wave good-bye, and fed herself<\/a> for the first time. She continued to “talk” a lot – mostly in her own language, but sometimes using real words – and she began uttering the phrases “Uh-oh” and “I got it.” She started following simple commands (she crawls over to me when I ask, for example), and she learned to identify her first body part: the nose. (Well, she actually points to my<\/em> nose, not hers, but at least she knows what it is.)<\/p>\n

Avery’s favorite activities haven’t changed much: She still loves spending time in her sister’s play kitchen and playing around with her toys (stacking dishes and rings, little wooden animals and blocks, and a musical tea-set<\/a> she got for her birthday being her favorites.) Some new things: she can now put her blocks and other toys back in their box (versus just take them out), and she recently made up a game that involves crawling over to the Boppy or other pillow on the floor, rolling around and burying her face in it – and then laughing. She also recently started to crawl over to me and sit in my lap when she sees me holding a book – her signal that she’s ready for storytime. She continues getting more interactive with her sister; one of her favorite things is when Zoe gets on all fours and chases her.<\/p>\n

Speaking of crawling, it’s still Avery’s preferred mode of transportation. She walks when we encourage her (and she gets a huge smile when we praise her), and she has walked on her own as far as across our bedroom – but she has yet to take the initiative on her own. One thing that she does do on her own, though, is the knee walk: She’ll occasionally get on her knees and scoot over to an object of interest. It’s a lot slower than crawling, but she loves doing it.<\/p>\n

Avery is still in a bit of a clingy stage: She doesn’t like being left alone in her room, even for a few seconds. It’s common for her to come up to me and make a whining noise (her way of being asked to pick up), but when I do<\/em> pick her up she often tries to wiggle out of my arms. It’s that classic toddler conflict: wanting to be babied and held but also wanting to be independent and free.<\/p>\n

She’s a sweet baby, overall, but she continues to show a demanding side. She whines a lot more than I remember Zoe doing at this age: Avery definitely lets you know if she wants something or if she’s upset that you won’t let her have it. She threw her first mini-tantrum about a week ago, after Q took the remote control out of her hand. (She flopped on her belly and cried for quite a long time.) And just yesterday morning she got frustrated with something I did with her stacking rings, and she plunked herself on the floor and began kicking her legs. It makes me quite curious to see what she’ll be like in a year or two, when real<\/em> tantrums usually happen!<\/p>\n

In terms of physical stuff, she is 32 inches and just shy of 25 pounds. She’s still off the charts in height, and down to the 80 percentile in weight. She loves food (show her a banana and watch her shake in excitement!), so it’s not a surprise to me that she’s a big girl.<\/p>\n

-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This month brought some big changes and firsts for Avery: She took her first steps (more on that in a bit), learned to clap and wave good-bye, and fed herself for the first time. She continued to “talk” a lot – mostly in her own language, but sometimes using real words – and she began […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-48-two-kids-july-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5575"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5590,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575\/revisions\/5590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}