{"id":6403,"date":"2010-10-19T09:34:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T17:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=6403"},"modified":"2010-10-19T09:56:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T17:56:49","slug":"16-month-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=6403","title":{"rendered":"16-month update"},"content":{"rendered":"

I forgot how much I love this age. At sixteen months, Avery provides the cuteness of a newborn \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but with less of the work! And the description<\/a> of her sister at this age is true of Avery, as well: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always running around and smiling, playing make-believe games, imitating us, and saying and waving \u00e2\u20ac\u02dchi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to people around her.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

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Some of Avery\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best stuff: She continues giving lots of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153kissies,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and one of her first un-requested ones came a few weeks ago. (I told her I loved her and she leaned in to give me a smooch.) Like with Zoe, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always saying and waving \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hi\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and also \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bye,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and she recently started \u00e2\u20ac\u0153singing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and dancing (i.e. swaying) to music. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mischievous; as mentioned<\/a> the other day, she knows when she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s doing something she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not supposed to do and will look at me with a big smile to see if I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m watching. (Luckily, she usually listens and stops what she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s doing once I ask.) And one of her new favorite games: Jump on Zoe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bed, bury her head in the pillow like she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s asleep, and giggle.<\/p>\n

A big change in the last month is her interaction with Zoe \u00e2\u20ac\u201c they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re playing with one another more and more often. They recently started chasing each other around the house, and they like to play a peek-a-boo-type game in Zoe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bed. They also just like to be around<\/em> one another: Avery gets super excited when she sees her sister in the mornings, and the other night when Zoe was napping on the couch, Avery ran up to her in excitement and tried to wake her up. And just this morning, Zoe said she wanted Avery to sit at her table and eat breakfast with her, so \u00e2\u20ac\u0153she can keep me company.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

In terms of communication, Avery has picked up a few words since our last update. She can say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bye,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153thank you\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c though sometimes the latter comes out sounding more like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153da duh.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (A few weeks ago, we started asking her \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What do you say?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d after giving her things, and she now replies with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153thank you\u00e2\u20ac\u009d most of the time.) Her level of understanding is also growing \u00e2\u20ac\u201c she can follow all sorts of commands (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Go show Daddy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Give this to Zoe\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) and just yesterday her hand shot up when I asked in the car, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Who wants Mommy to sing?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the first time she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s done that.)<\/p>\n

Avery\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (belated) 15-month appointment was just last week, and we found out that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 24 lbs, 10 oz. and 34.25 inches tall. That puts her in the 75 percentile for weight and 95 for height (and, interestingly, makes her slightly lighter but 2 inches taller than Zoe was at that age). <\/p>\n

At a party recently, someone mentioned that Avery was a serious baby. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quite accurate: She remains hesitant around new people, but when around us she’s just our happy little Avery. I can’t help but adore her.<\/p>\n

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

I forgot how much I love this age. At sixteen months, Avery provides the cuteness of a newborn \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but with less of the work! And the description of her sister at this age is true of Avery, as well: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always running around and smiling, playing make-believe games, imitating us, and saying and waving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-51-two-kids-october-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403","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=6403"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6424,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions\/6424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}