Mikaela 15 months

Mikaela turned 15 months 3 wks ago. I’ve been pretty bad at keeping up with these monthly updates. Second child syndrome at its best. It’s so bad, that I actually forgot she had to get a 15 month well check up at the pediatricians and was due for shots. The only reason I remembered was because while she was sick (yet again) and at the doctor’s office, the nurse informed us that she was overdue for her shots. Oh well. She got them done.

Mikaela is really starting to become her own person now, and what a person she is becoming. She is going to be headstrong, stubborn and intelligent. She catches on to things so quickly, loves mimicking, and is frighteningly good a mimicking. She’s quick to catch on to little games and is incredibly playful. But watch out cause she knows what she wants and if she doesn’t get it, in a blink of an eye she can morph from an incredibly happy, cute, baby, into the fussiest, loudest, most annoying and terribly annoying screaming mess. 

Mikaela is starting to become a challenge at meal times. She’s becoming extremely picky and would rather go hungry than eat foods she doesn’t like. Which is basically anything healthy. But give her anything sweet, or any kind of junk food, and she could out eat most adults. She has low tolerance for her high chair, and has recently stopped being able to make it through an entire meal in her high chair while we’re out at restaurants. The meal usually ends with Austin holding her in his lap, trying to eat one handed.

 She’s getting better at walking. She still won’t walk unassisted, although she’s fully capable of doing so. If she just barely touches your fingers, she can walk all over the place. She definitely is the fastest crawler out there though. I bet she could pretty much win any crawling race. Maybe because she’s so little for her age.

Her vocabulary is incredible. Even our pediatrician is impressed. Maybe it’s one of the benefits of beinga second child. Her sign language is pretty much non existent though. She can sign for “more” and “please”.

 Words she knows:
NO – this is clearly her favorite word. She says no all day long.
Nay-Nay – what she calls Naomi - her second favorite word
Milk – really sounds more like Mol since she can’t prounounce her K’s
More
Mommy – mommy previously meant “more” to her. Now “more” means “more” and “Mommy” is what she calls Austin. Go figure.
Thank you – cutest thing ever, sounds like Dank choo
Please – Pease
Up
Mine
Bubbles
Hot
Whoa
 Uh-Oh
Hi
Hello
Bye Bye
 Elmo – another favorite word of hers

She’s also developed quite a case of stranger anxiety, when it comes to girls that is. She’s quick to warm up to our guy friends, but usually cries, fusses or makes mean faces at most women that try to go near her that she’s not familiar with.

 She’s is daddys’ girl right now, preferring him to anyone else. I come in second place, but I’m ok with that. She still drops everything and screams out “MOMMY” (the only time she calls me mommy, because remember, Mommy really means Daddy) as soon as she sees me at Daycare pickup. She’ll crawl with lightening speed and demand to be picked up. Definitely one of the best parts of my day.

Though she basically runs the show in our household, she’s still teeny tiny. Here are her 15 month stats: Weight: 17 lbs 12 oz (6th %) Height: 28 ¾ inches (4th %) Head circumference: 45.5cm (42nd %)