Sweet Pea is 17 months old!!

There really aren’t too many big updates on Sweet Pea this month! She is still her happy little self, toddling all over the place.

She loves a Tupperware container with a top that she can put on. She will play with something like that for the longest time! Kids truly do not need every single toy ever made! At this age, both of my girls loved Tupperware and most any fun, safe household object! I love that about this age.

Sweet Pea really bonded with her Gramps this past month. She finds his shoes and brings them to him so he can put them on and take her outside. She walks her around outside showing her everything. He even lets her point to what direction she wants to go in next. Right now their routine is to go out in the back yard and ring the chime hanging from the tree, then they turn and go to the tree swing where Sweet Pea loves to swing. After the swing she likes to touch the big oak tree and the bird house. Then they head to a small roof covering the AC unit where she likes to pick leaves off it. They also enjoy sitting together on the front porch looking at pinecones, squirrels and whatever else they can find.

Sweet Pea said some more words this month! She can now say: Mama, Dada, bye, all done, more, Amen!, eye, butterfly (basically is the ‘b’ sound), cracker, moon and I’m sure I am missing some more words she knows. She nods her head for “yes” and shakes for “no”.

Instead of putting her in the stroller if we take a walk, I typically let Sweet Pea walk. She loves being able to walk on her own like her big sister! She doesn’t always stay on the path. Many times I have to run off after her!

Sometime else very cute she has started doing is standing on her tippee toes to see things. She will go to the bathroom, stand on Little Bug’s stool and peer over the counter to see herself in the mirror.

Eating issues remain the same. I am looking forward to her 15-month check up in a few days from now.

She laughs when we brush her teeth! No new teeth this month. She still has the 12 teeth.

She is still needs and takes two naps per day. Occasionally she will not sleep during the morning nap and if that happens I lay her down at 1:30 for her afternoon nap. While I am not looking forward to the transition period from two to one nap, I am very much looking forward to having mornings open again for play dates, errands and special outings!

Nothing changed with her sleep schedule this month, but I did switch up some of her schedule to make it work better for us (because, after all, that is the purpose of a schedule!). I moved her Independent Playtime (which is now in her bedroom instead of the pack n play!) to right after her morning nap and during Little Bug’s learning time. It became too difficult to try and do learning time with Little Bug with a toddler getting into everything! I can’t wait to do learning time with both girls, but now is just not the time. I fought against moving her IP time to during Little Bug’s learning time because since her birth I have always had Sweet Pea do IP during Little Bug’s TV time because I am adamant that my children will not watch TV until age 2!

With this schedule change, Sweet Pea is “around” when Little Bug is watching TV. I am in the kitchen cooking lunch and folding laundry usually, so I keep Sweet Pea with me. Fortunately, Sweet Pea won’t plop herself in front of the TV at this age, so for now, this is working. If I ever find that Sweet Pea has started focusing more on the TV than playing around me while I fix lunch, I will move Little Bug’s TV time to her bedroom with my laptop!

Sweet Pea is still in size 4 diapers, although she can wear size 6 if needed (as in when we run out of her size). She is wearing 18 month sized clothing.

Schedule (16 months old):

8am wake up

9:45-10:45am nap

10:45-11:30am Independent Playtime

11:30-12:00pm Hang out with Mommy while I fix lunch and play with Tupperware

12:00pm lunch

1:45-4:30pm nap

6:00pm dinner

7:00pm bath time

7:45 bedtime

Happy 17 Months, Sweet Pea!!

- Elaine