Tomorrow Kyrah will be 14 months old. I do have a hand written journal next to my bed for her that I have slacked off on - the computer is just so much quicker, so I wanted to give a little idea of her schedule.
Kyrah starts her day somewhere between 6:30 and 7:00 am. Typically she sleeps through the night with no problem but every once in awhile she will wake up crying. If it is a weekday we have to get her up no later then 6:45 and then she gets dropped off at day care by 7:15. She will eat breakfast between 7 and 7:30. She loves butter and jelly toast as well as pancakes, eggs, bananas, and ceral. She has two teeth on the bottom - those were the first two she ever got. She also has on front tooth and the tooth to the right of that. The left front tooth is visible but still growing. She just has not grown teeth very fast. But with what she has, she is able to bite off food. We can give her a cracker and she can take bites out of it. I still cute up most of her food and know I cut it smaller then daycare, but that is the Mom in me. After breakfast it is play time until about 9 to 9:30. It seems like we have to put her down for a nap by 9:30 or she is way to cranky to deal with. Recently I tried to skip the morning nap and have her only take the afternoon nap. She was not able to deal with that. She still needs a morning and afternoon nap. Daycare limites her morning nap to 30 minutes. I usually let her sleep as long as she wants - but it is never more then an hour or so.
Lunch is usually 10:45 to 11:30. She is a great eater and doesn't have much she doesn't like. She eats apple slices, peaches and pears. We have tried grapes, but without much luck. She is still too little for citrus types of fruits. As far as vegatables she likes them all. I am surprised that she is only so so on potatos. When we are at restraurants and giver her fries she really doesn't seem too interested and most kids loves french fries. Her favorite is still the green bean. She eats lots of meats including hambuger, chicken, ham, turkey, hot dogs and fish.
After lucnch it is playtime again for a bit. Then we try to put her down for a nap somewhere between 12 and 1 - depending on how late she slept in the morning. Nap time usually lasts anywhere from 1 hour 30 minutes to 2 hours. Once she wakes up she gets a snack with milk and and back to playtime. If she is at daycare we pick her up between 4:30 and 5 - Daddy picks her up because Mommy works way to far away. She gets dinner around 5:15 to 5:30. After that we play, then it is bathtime at 6:30. By 7 pm she is on our lap on the couch having a sippy cup of warm milk. She doesn't fall asleep on us. After we know she is done with her milk we kiss her goodnight and tell her to have sweet dreams then put her down in her crib. She will fall asleep on her own then.
She still LOVES her pacifier and likes to have one in her mouth at night and hold on to the others that are in her crib. When she wakes up in the morning I see that she has collected them all and likes to throw them over the side of the crib. I know we should take it away because once the twins come there is no way we will be able to give a pacifier and not Kyrah, but it is so hard becuase she LOVEs it so much.
As far as playtime goes. It is a lot of walking around. Taking toys from one spot to the other. She has baby dolls that she walks around with. She likes to look at books. Kyrah will also put objects into a container or take things out - usually doesn't matter what it is. She actualy has a box of scrap paper that she takes out of the box and puts on the floor then puts them back - most of the time it doesn't have to be a fancy toy. She also loves to take things out of the cabinet up until recently she would just walk around with it but now she throws it away. When she is playing with us, she will throw a ball, or point out our nose, eyes and ears. She doesn't know mouth yet. She just learned where her belly is and will raise her shirt up and show you.
She knows and understands so many things, but still will not say very much and she will not answer a question when asked "Who am I" or something like that.
She has some bad habits too. I notice she gets frustrated fairly easily. If she can't get a toy out then she will start crying and sit on the floor and put her head down throwing a little Kyrah tantrum. She is good at riding in a car, it does help that we have a DVD player in the van and that keeps her attention.
When she smiles really big she has this little dimple up high on her right cheek. I am still undetermined on the color of her eyes - they are not brown, sometimes they look green - but it is more of a mossy green not the bright emerald green (Daddy's are the mossy green color) and sometimes they have a grey/blue appearance. She has always had wonderful hair and it is really long now for her age. She wears clips and pony tails when she will sit still long enough for me to put them in.
She put her walking to the test a few weeks ago when it was nice out and she walked on uneven surfaces - as expected quite a few falls, but she didn't seem to mind.
Daddy is pulling her around in her sled. She still needs to work in her balance because as soon as they started going up the hill she fell back.
Ready...get set....go....
Her eyes were huge! She never cried, but I am uncertain if she liked it or not. Overall she went down the hill three times. We headed inside after that - just too cold for a little girl that is getting over RSV and ear infections.
Oh wait you mean I have to let go...hmm I am not sure that is a good idea...
