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Dear Katie,

What an active and energetic child you are!

Here are your stats:
Weight
Height
Head Circumference

Major Milestones for 18 Months:
-Walking and Running EVERYWHERE
-Climbing up and down stairs by yourself
-Can climb down stairs while holding the banister or a wall
-Eating solids a lot more
-About 8 new teeth are breaking through, two on either side of your existing 8 teeth.  You are constantly putting your fingers in your mouth and occasionally drooling, but it is all good!

Notable events this month:
-Our home furniture finally came in
-Our cabana is finally getting done
-Carpeting got fixed

Words:
-Again, too many to count.  We can understand you and you understand us.
-Signing boat, car, banana, apple, etc.

Feedings:
-Bottle feeding whole milk – 3-4 feedings usually 6-8 each.
-Eating more real food
-You are highly independent and feed yourself with utensils- fork, spoon, and chopsticks
-You like to drink from a cup either with or without a straw

Sleep Schedule:
-You sleep 1-2 naps a day, sometimes one nap
-If you don’t sleep well – you are cranky for the whole day through
-Is showing a preference for being rocked to sleep while being carried on someone’s back – this is primarily grandma’s doing

Favorite Activities:
-Running around after Audrey
-Becoming more social with Audrey
-Going on top of tables – again we have attempted to curtail this
-Gym time – LOVE THE GYM

Personality:
-Independent
-Aggressive
-Social/Very vocal – like to high five the gym teacher and able to hold your own in the class (which starts at 18-19 months, but we slipped you in at 17 months)

Quirky Yuna Things:
-Still getting carsick, but on longer car rides, and if we show you signing time and keep you distracted, you don’t vomit

Education:
-Songs
-Signing Time
-“Reading” board books
-Gym class every week, which you love

Keep on being who you are!

Love,
Mommy and Daddy

Dear Katie,

You have definitely gotten more active and rambunctious this past month!  Your personality is coming out and it is so different than your sister!

Major Milestones for 17 Months:
-Walking and Running Everywhere
-Talk over 30 words and adding new words on a daily basis – in fact we’ve lost count
-Climbing everywhere, including the stairs (you’ve climbs entire flight of stairs in a blink of an eye)
-You attempt to climb down stairs with minimal support from a wall or a stair post
-Eat a lot more
-Share a whole lot
-Growing your 9th teeth on upper right side

Notable events this month:
-Fourth of July Party (7/4/13)
-Started your first mommy-and-me gym class (7/23/13)
-Many Friends coming over to our place

Words:
-Too many to count – you are learning on a consistent basis.  You have said all the words last month including……-Mermaid, Good night, Me? (or Na?), Dora
-We think that your sister Audrey is definitely playing a role in your verbal advancement – in fact Audrey eggs you on

Feedings:
-Still feeding from the bottle – about 3-4 times daily, about 3-8 ozs each
-Also eating a lot more meals (actual food)
-Can feed yourself, but it often tends to be messy.

Sleep Schedule:
-You still have two naps, one in the morning, and one in the afternoon.  Exact timing varies.  Each nap is about 1 hour long.

Favorite Activities:
-Engaging in whatever Audrey is doing
-Walking under the table
-Grabbing clothes out from the dresser and strewing it all over the place
-Interestingly, you do not LOVE the iphone as your sister does.  Cannot really do ENDLESS ABC and haven’t gotten the hang of it.
-Have been crawling up tables – we have been scolding you, so you don’t do it as much.

Personality:
-Still getting carsick, vomiting in the car about once every 1-2 weeks.  We have extra stash of plastic bags, paper towels, and always pack a change of clothes in the car whenever we go on car rides now.
-More aggressive and social than Audrey

Education:
-Signing time – you can sign some things
-Scribbling activities
-Started Mommy-and-me gym class and you LOVE IT!!!  Maybe that’s why you are crawling all over the place
-Identifying words and imaging now – favorite book is “My First Words” which is just a board book with a word and picture (Eg. Girl, Boy, Apple, etc)

We Love you!
-Mommy and Daddy