Remi is (obviously) excited to announce she is now 18 months old!  She had her 18 month checkup today and she has some updated specs:

• Her weight is dead on average for her age: She is in the 50th percentile at 24.2 lbs
• She is quite tall for her age: In the 75% percentile at 32″ tall

I can’t belive she is approaching 1/2 my height!

Her motor skills are right in line with expectations but Dr. Beamer thinks she has a better than average vocabulary.  We keep a list of new words she has learned to use.  Words only make it on to the list if she can repeat them on different occassions.  That list is currently at 56 words (& I think that’s conservative).

Still no super powers though.  I was expecting teleportation or laser vision by now but perhaps those take longer to develop.

Unfortunately, she had to get 2 shots today but we made up for that by buying a new book & having lunch at Chick-fil-a.  That’s a fair trade for a couple needles.

When we take Remi out people are constantly surprised when they discover she is only 6 months old. Is she really big for her age? Compared to other babies we see she seems about normal…I do think her legs are pretty long though.

It appears Remi is about to take another big developmental step.  She has flirted with sleeping through the night for each of the last 4 nights.  We don’t quite count any of these recent sleeping performances as “full night” because she either went to bed at 1:AM or she had to wake up once during the night.  Still, the times she has woken up hungry have been much shorter and only waking once instead of 3 times is a major improvement.