13-18 Months: C's Milestones

13 Months

• Finished ISR lessons!
• Understands the following words: Daddy, Mommy, Auntie Kali, Grandmama, Bella, food, milk, more, ball, book, bed time and shoes.
• Delay tactics to avoid nap and bed time
• Cuddling, asking for milk or water, wanting to read
• Picking up on social cues way more
• Anything that makes us laugh she does more of
• Hugs our legs (especially when upset about something)
• Fake crying as if the world is over before naps
• Frantically asks for headband (and sometimes her stuffed animals) as soon as she wakes up
• Said "Daddy" and "Doggy" first
• Plays hide-and-go seek
• Likes playing with the door stopper
• Loves wearing shoes (hers and her parents)

14-15 Months

• Discovered Siri and tries to enable it on the phone so she can 'tell' it what to do
• Loves Baby Signing Time and asks for it by signing "baby"
• Knows where her toes, nose, eyes and ears are
• Understands almost everything we say
• Hunching shoulders and daintily asking "more" when she really wants something
• Frantically grunting when the fridge opens asking for either milk or cheese
• Helped us
• Primary sign language: please, thank you, down, food, more, milk, water, ball, keys, shoes
• Now also says "cheese" and "Kali" and "hot"
• Try to get her to say "Mommy" and she just points to herself (because that's what I do and it makes me laugh)
• Blows on her food like she sees us do when we tell her the food is hot
• Squeals in delight:
• when doorbell rings and goes running to answer it
• when Geoffrey gets Bella all riled up
• when she runs and tries to throw a ball (tends to simply drop it), picks it up again and repeats the process
• when she plays with the tennis ball and Bella
• Loves squeezing daddy and mommy's noses to make us 'honk'
• Loves climbing!
• Rocks back and forth with body and/or head to ask for music
• Loves "Seeds of Faith" music online
• Loves books
• Loves being scared
• Mommy hides behind door or counter and jumps out at her)
• Loves looking out the front door when it's open as the weather cools
• Loves going outside 
• Loves bath time
• Thinks it's hilarious to pour water with cup
• Loves her dolls
• Runs to the garage to see Daddy when I tell her he's home
• Hands up in the air with a high pitched questioning noise when I ask where someone or something is
• Starting to point to my belly when I ask where baby is
• Waves hello not just goodbye'
• Understands almost all the instructions she is given now including getting her shoes, putting things away, cleaning up
• Thinks it's hilarious when she claps and we mimic her
• Makes a basket with the ball and hoop when instructed to
• Running and as a result falling more

16 & 17 Months

• Understands naps
• Loves playing with a blanket
• Stacking rings toy
• Climbed onto table
• Cleans up after herself when she spills milk
• Tries to help me with laundry
• Telling her more frequently to wait and she does not like that
• Now loves using a spoon (kind of claps to for the sign) at every meal
• Loves milk
• Now knock when we go in to get her in the mornings and she replies with "ehh?"
• Geoffrey started watching wildlife movies with and she calls it "birds" using sign language and scrunches her shoulders cutely when she asks
• Now takes pictures using my phone
• Also likes accessing the calculator on my locked phone
• Prefers hair clips over head bands
• Smiles by scrunching her nose whenever she sees me pointing the camera or phone at her
• Pushes the little tikes car around the home
• Loves swinging and can't get enough of it
• Same with spinning in circles with Daddy
• Loves climbing on the bunk bed to bounce on it
• Bailey doll and plastic keys are her favorites
• Pushes crib away from the wall using her feet and the crib slides because of the jars, discovered the clothes packed away underneath and played with it a couple times delaying naps twice before I wised up
• Basically tries to climb up anything she can
• Geoffrey showed her how to climb up the 'rock climbing wall' on the slide
• Over Thanksgiving discovered she loves playing in the sand
• Loves trying to get Bella to chase the ball and does the same with Trigger who always obliges
• Asking every meal for a spoon and almost mastering how to eat with utensils
• Becoming very opinionated about what goes on her hair and trying to set a new trend of multiple hair bows being worn at once
• Climbing on everything she can and sometimes getting stuck
• Closing any open doors, cabinets or drawers which is usually great but sometimes hinders me putting away the laundry and dishes :)
• Discovering her pjs unzip which is how she has been spending the first ten minutes of each morning lately when she wakes up
• Discovering how to honk our vehicles horns and how to ring the doorbell
• Enjoying "driving" in Daddy's car and riding in the passenger seat of the van while in the garage
• Finding it hysterical whenever anyone copies what she's doing
• Having opinions on where she wants to sit and what she wants to eat
• Helping herself get dressed
• Learning how to clean spilled milk, put dirty clothes in the hamper and knock on the door when someone's in the bathroom
• Loving getting her finger and toe nails painted by her aunts
• Mastering how to take blurry selfies using Mommy's phone
• Moved into her big girl bed
• Pretending she's talking on the phone as she walks around the house
• Randomly requesting to have her teeth brushed throughout the day 
• Rotating her square based cup 90 degrees thinking that will solve the problem of not getting water in her mouth instead of tipping it more :)
• Scrunching her nose and eyes whenever we tell her to smile
• Touching the ground in a froggy position every few steps to imitate Mommy doing squats
• Wrapping her doll Bailey in her favorite blanket and pushing her around in her doll stroller
• Every day that Christmas lights were up would tilt her head back and frantically say please to get me to turn both the tree and garland lights on

18 Months

• Doing an "oh" face when she knows she's doing something she shouldn't or an accident happens
• Telling me when her diaper is wet!
• Loving reading books and talking the full time about the 'doggy' and 'hat' and 'bird'
• Loves Jesus Is With Me
• Moved to booster seat (for training not to whine purposes)
• Play time in room with gate instead of pack-n-play
• Organizes ducky, bottle and cup on the tub shelf when taking baths
• Loves tackling her unicorn pillow
• Enjoys being goofy
• Helps with choosing her clothes and putting socks away
• Tries to tickle us now when prompted and sometimes on her own initiative
• Recognizes the food court at Costco and immediately asks for food when we pull up
• Putting any clothes I give her into her hamper when I say to put them in her room even when they aren't dirty
• Loving the basketball hoop and playing with the plastic balls
• Pushes her train, car and stroller around the house
• Loves putting her sippy cups and phone in the bottom pouch of her stroller
• Knows who Stuart and Agnes are 
• Figured out how to open and close the garage with the keys for walks
• Asks for Daddy if I'm the only one to go get her in the mornings
• Stomps her feet in excitement when she gets food she is asking for
• Grabs the dryer balls every time I open the dyer
• Makes sure Bella has her food and water full
• Loves using the stool to wash her hands
• Regularly asks to get her nails painted
• Frequently asks to go in the swing
• Finally figured out to point at me when asked where mommy is instead of herself
• Points to her 'eye's when I say 'ice'
• Enjoys taking all the letters off the ABC board and then putting them back
• Told her to clean up the water and she went and put the rag in the water bowl instead of cleaning up what was spilled on the floor
• Knock on her bedroom door and she says 'eh?' when we ask if we can come in

10-12 Months: C's Milestones

10 Months

• Fourth tooth (2nd on top). 
• Loves emptying toys from their bin and the books off the shelf. 
• Mimicking what we do. 
• More hair. 
• Standing for several seconds on her own with confidence and without thinking about it.
• Sticking tongue out. 
• Switched to flats for cloth diapering. 
• Tilts her head to the side to make us laugh. 
• Walks when her hands are held but she loves crawling fast to get places. 
• Way more chatty.

11 Months

• A week before her birthday started climbing up the ladder without help and can come down the slide as well without help 
• Flips container in pack-n-play over and stands on it
• Lays head down frequently for a few seconds on pillows, our shoulders, etc. 
• Mastered sign language of "more"and "milk" 
• Pats our backs in excitement
• Plays with our hair while drinking bottle
• Started walking on Father's Day
• Starting to prefer Geoffrey over me 
• Super happy
• Tries to climb up the slide on her own
• Understands "It's bedtime" and normally starts whining/fussing that she doesn't want to go to bed.
• Understands "Will you put your head down?" and lays it down on my shoulder.
• Uses index finger to flick lip... Halfway into the month discovered making noise while doing it is a lot more fun.
• Finally mastered sippy cups and drinking out of a straw.  Berry smoothie from Costco did the trick with the straw.

12 Months

• Finally understands she is supposed to run when I say "I'm going to get you"... Before she would simply run to me.
• Plays hide and go seek
• Brings books over for us to read to her.  We are doing good if we get through three pages before she moves onto something else :)
• Has discovered the door stopper by the front door is fun to play with.
• Finds great delight in playing with Bella.
• Now understands what the following words mean: Daddy, Mommy, Auntie Kali, food, milk, more, ball, book, bed time and shoes
• Has mastered the sign language for: more, food, milk, water and please
• Growth in communicating when she does not like something :)
• Loves when we play music and bobs her head to the tune (even if it's slow haha)
• Understands mommy and daddy are interacting with their iPad or phone and now tries to grab the devices to look at them
• Understands the remote controls the TV
• Started ISR Self-Rescue Swim lessons.  Quickly mastered holding her breath under water and swimming to the pull up bar.
• Tries to delay bed time by resting her head against Mommy's should because I'm a sucker for cuddling
• Also tries to delay any nap or bed time by now asking for milk, water or food whenever I change her diaper

7-9 Months: C's Milestones

7 Months

• Loves the walker!
• Second tooth.  On the bottom.
• Try to read at least one book with her (even though completely distracted) before bed. 
• Waking up happy. 

8 Months

• Finished nursing at end of 8 months.
• Running in walker.  Use with caution next baby because it can encourage improper walking on toes.
• Tons more smiles!
• 'Waving' hand.

9 Months

• Back to being clingy with mommy.
• Loves finger foods.  Still a little slow.
• Standing for several seconds on her own.
• Started shaking her head no without understanding what she is doing.
• Stopped using walker because it was causing her to walk more on her tip toes.
• Third tooth. First on top.

3-6 Months: C's Milestones

Independent play time each day for Carmen.  Reading books to before bed.

3 Months

• Crying 10 minutes max when swaddle and lay her down for nap times.
• Growth spurt at 13 weeks!  Up every three hours for three nights in a row.  
• Rolling from tummy to back.
• Rolling side to side on back.  
• Sleeping through the nights.
• Stopped swaddling at 14 weeks.
• Used k'tan carrier until no longer need ergo insert then switched.

4 Months

• First signs of being ticklish.  
• Letting cry out on tummy now in pac n play.  
• Pack n play for sleeping until able to roll both ways well.
• Rolling both ways.  

5 Months

• Doesn't stay put.  
• Only wanting mommy.  
• Playing and sleeping in crib.
• Up rocking on hands and knees.
• Waking up during night again to eat. 

6 Months

• Back to waking up only once during the night once started solids.  
• Crawling.
• First laugh!  
• First tooth!  On the bottom and not much fussing for the first one.
• Sitting up on her own.  
• Standing up in crib.  After a few days learned how to get back down.  
• Waking up once a night then sleeping through the night once started solids!!!

0-2 Months: C's Milestones

First Two Months

• A cute little bundle of joy that sleeps and eats.

2 Months

• 8 Weeks: Smiling in response to mommy
• 9 Weeks: Hitting at hanging pieces on bouncer and kicking in it
• 10 weeks: Actual Tears
• 12 weeks: Down to crying less than 10 minutes for each nap time