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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.

New images in the gallery above. At 15 months Remi’s vocabulary is now 19 words strong. Her mastery of English includes:

• Mommy
• Daddy
• Meow (not the sound, she uses it for “cat”)
• That (I contend this was her first word)
• Hot dog (we can’t count this as 2 words since she only uses them for one meaning)
• Ice
• Uh-oh (she uses this one a lot)
• Bowl (we have no idea how she learned this one)
• Bottle
• Baby
• Bow (her word for any non-cat animal)
• Be-bo (our word for Belly Button)
• Bear
• Water
• Eye
• Hi
• Light
• Ball
• Book (not surprising since she plays with her books all day long)

*edit* She just said a new word during lunch today: “Bean”

That’s 19 20 and counting!

This video is a bit longer than what I typically like to post but I don’t have time to edit it & she does something really cool at the end. It’s only like 90 second long so it’s not that bad.

We were getting pretty sick of hearing stories about 10 month old babies walking.  At 14 months Remi was content with crawling.  Why bother walking if you are lightning fast as a crawler?

She has been standing for 2-3 months.  Teasing us with the idea of walking by bouncing up and down as if dancing to music.  She would even cheat by walking while holding on to furniture.  Despite our best efforts to encourage an untethered step Remi wasn’t interested.

About 3 weeks ago she took 2 steps for mommy.  She let go of her furniture support and let her legs take her for a brief test.  We thought she was ready to enter the bipedal world but there was to be no more excitement for another 2 weeks.  Early this past week Remi took 9 wobbly steps to a pillow as daddy sat in shock.  By Thursday it only took a little encouragement to “stand up” and she would walk with purpose.

By this time next week I expect she will be running agility courses.

Here are a few more recent pics of Rem-Rem.

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Remi’s first birthday is as much a celebration that her parents didn’t screw up too badly for the first 12 months.  No short term effects, at least.

Remi had her first sugar explosion in the form of a cupcake.  She got a Spongebob ball for her birthday (and she loves it).

At 1 year & 18 days old Remi crawled to her toy stroller (loaded with baby Grover) stood up and began “walking” behind the stroller.

It’s not quite as momentous as her first real steps but her first assisted steps are still pretty damn special.