Lia is One Year Old!

Babies grow so fast sometimes I don’t even remember what happened. Here’s a little flashback to when Lia was only one day old just to see how far she’s come in this past year…

Let’s review Lia’s progress at this twelve-month milestone against what’s listed in What To Expect The First Year:

By first year, Lia should be able to:

• Walk holding on to furniture (cruise). Yup.
• Use a few gestures to get needs met. She points to things.

Lia will probably be able to:

• Play patty-cake (clap hands) or wave bye-bye (most by 13 mo). Both.
• Drink from a cup independently. Yup.
• Pick up a tiny object neatly with tips of thumb and forefinger (many not until 15 mo). One of her favorite hobbies is to scan the carpet for specs of dust, crawls to it, picks it up with two fingers, and says “dirty”.
• Stand alone momentarily (many not until 13 mo). When we went shoe-shopping, she stood more than 20 seconds by herself.
• Say “dada” or “mama” indiscriminately (most by 14 mo). Yup.
• Say one word other than “mama” or “dada” (many not until 14 mo). She says “apple” all the time.

Lia may possibly be able to:

• Play ball. (many not until 16 mo). Yes, although sometimes it goes backwards.
• Stand alone well. (many not until 14 mo). Starting to.
• Use immature jargoning. (many not until 15 mo). Yes.
• Walk well. (3 of 4 not until 13 1/2, good crawlers tend to be slower to walk).  Not yet, only cruising.

Lia may even be able to:

• Say three words other than “mama” or “dada” (half not until 13 mo, many not until 16 mo). She regular says “turtle”, “ball”, “dirt” (dirty), “duck” (ducky), “apple”, “up”, “eeyore”, “bear”, “bird”, “wow”, “baby”, “boobey” (blueberry, once), “book” , “doggie”, “pahn pahn” (means scared in chinese), “milk”, “mouth”, “oh-oh” (with a cough), “heel” (hello), “butt” (bunny), “computer” (only twice), and probably more we forgot.
• Respond to one-step command without gestures (“give that to me”, most until 1st birthday, and many not until 16 mo). We can point to something and have her give it to us, but recently she decided it’s more fun to keep it.

So overall Lia is doing very well with her progress. She is so much fun now. We look forward to seeing what else she picks up, and hopefully she won’t starting walking too soon!

Happy birthday Lia!