{"id":5841,"date":"2010-08-19T12:07:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T20:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=5841"},"modified":"2010-08-19T15:11:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T23:11:56","slug":"14-month-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=5841","title":{"rendered":"14-month update"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve got a walker! Less than two weeks after my last update<\/a>, Avery decided to get up – and stay up – on two feet. (Interestingly, she started exclusively walking at the exact same age that Zoe did<\/a>.) She still occasionaly crawls, but not very often – and gone is the knee-walking she once did. She seems to enjoy the freedom that comes from walking, but she hasn’t wandered far away from us (yet) – she likes to stay close, and she’s still known to cry or pout if she feels left behind.<\/p>\n

Her communication skills continue to improve: She can follow simple, and even a few not-so-simple, commands. Q recently asked her to give him a bite of something she was eating, for example, and she understood and offered him a taste. She’s also learning ways to express what she wants: She routinely hands me books that she wants read to her, or snacks that she wants fed to her. <\/p>\n

In terms of words, she started saying hi, yeah and uh-oh, and she can also make a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153thank you” sound. She hasn’t come up with a name (or, at least, one that we can detect) for Zoe yet – but I can’t wait to hear what she winds up calling her.<\/p>\n

Avery enjoys many of the same things we discussed last time: her sister’s kitchen, her tea-set, our phones and remote controls. She also likes to explore various drawers in the house: her favorites are her dad’s bathroom drawer, a computer desk drawer (from which she pulls tape, old cameras and batteries, etc.) and a corner drawer (where we keep some of her snacks – go figure) in the kitchen. She’s also shown a recent fondness for shutting the door in whichever room she’s in – so we’ve had to watch carefully to avoid pinched fingers. <\/p>\n

She smiles and laughs a lot – but she also has the propensity to whine, fuss or frown when she doesn’t get her way (and often, even when she does). She’s the queen of dirty looks, and Q and I have taken to calling her “Our Little Complainer.” I don’t remember Zoe being quite so whiney at this age, but I’m hoping it’s just a phase for Avery. And the good thing about her: She can be fussing and scrunching up her face in disgust one minute, but then laughing and clapping during the next.<\/p>\n

As mentioned before, she’s a big eater (she’s one of those kids who tries to eat the other kids’ snacks at the playground), and she loves almost everything, especially fruit<\/a>. The only thing that she’s rejected so far: cherry tomatoes. (And frankly, I don’t blame her!)<\/p>\n

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

We’ve got a walker! Less than two weeks after my last update, Avery decided to get up – and stay up – on two feet. (Interestingly, she started exclusively walking at the exact same age that Zoe did.) She still occasionaly crawls, but not very often – and gone is the knee-walking she once did. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-49-two-kids-august-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841","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=5841"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5859,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841\/revisions\/5859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}