In one month, Sonia’s first drunken-sailor steps holding onto Daddy’s hand turned into relatively stable walking across the room without any help (with a few bumps and bruises along the way of course). What a transformation! In the video below she’s using it to her advantage to do one of her favorite things, try to get Luna to play with her. Can’t wait to see where she goes from here!
Shortly after a year, we switched Sonia to cow’s milk. At first she took to it well, so I decided to stop pumping at work. However, we quickly learned that she was fine taking it from the nanny, but wanted nothing to do with it when Mommy & Daddy were home. The pediatrician had said that with the right diet she didn’t need any milk at all, so we tracked her food intake for a week and then decided that we didn’t need to force the milk on her after all. I still nurse first thing in the morning and last thing before bed, we offer her cow’s milk with meals, and we introduced a daily Calcium + D gummy vitamin. Between that and the yogurt, cheese, and other variety of good foods she eats, she seems to be doing great.
Sonia’s vocabulary is getting ridiculous! Below is a list of all the recognizable words (to us at least) that she can say/repeat in context. Mama, Dada, Luna, Bye Bye, No, Book, Bubbles, Box, Block, Ball, Bear, Balloon, Bath, Night Night, Nose, Banana, More, Milk, Water (still just clicking), Avocado, Up, Down, Door, Mailbox, Go, Garbage.
Sonia’s play is also getting more advanced. This month, bubbles were her favorite thing, so much so that she often would wake up in the morning or from naps saying “bubbles.” Oddly, though, she doesn’t care about the bubbles themselves, just putting the wand in and out of the container and holding it up to Mommy or Daddy’s mouth. Another new toy Sonia is fond of is her watering can. She clicks when she sees it and asks to be taken around to all the plant so she can “water” them. This was also the first month she actually stacked blocks into a tower herself, and she found out the joy of being pushed around in a laundry basket. In fact, she was in heaven when the nanny brought her a bunch of balls so she could have her own mini ball pit in the laundry basket.
She has definitely come through the latest leap, and is sweeter again. So lucky and happy to have such an interesting and adorable baby girl!