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.

Remi is self aware.  It is only a matter of time before she views us as a human infestation and turns our own weapons against us.

She saw a picture of herself and, without thinking, blurted out, “Remi”.  Of course it sounds more like “Wemi” when she says it.  She may be self-aware but she still can’t pronounce the letter ‘R’.

She turns 1 exactly one week from today.  I have a feeling she might be talking before walking. She has “momma” and “daddy” down and is getting better with many other words that do not contain ‘R’.  “That” is a favorite of hers.  Some combination of “Meow” and “Bow Wow” means any for legged animal.

Remi is now 6 months old!

She is sitting up on her own, eating sold food (when we have time), playing peek-a-boo, and fascinated by the cats.  Oh, and she has her first two teeth!

Still no crawling.  She “swims” in place a lot but hasn’t quite figured out how to put that into forward momentum.  She has become a master of pulling things she wants toward her.

Remi is hooked on her first TV show: HBO’s Classical Baby series.

She has noticed TV for brief moments but nothing has quite captivated her like this.  She will sit in her Boppy and watch Classical Baby for a full 30 minutes.  I’m not quite sure what she sees but she cannot tear her eyes away from the show.

It’s all short vignettes (2-5 minutes each) of classical music playing to animated versions of famous works of art. Full credit is given to the composer and artist (for mommy & daddy, presumably).  I can’t wait for the next episode to find out if that two-timing Kandinsky is finally going to fall for Tchaikovsky or that egotistical hussy Wagner.

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.