18 month check up was awesome. Of course my skinny little boy only gained one pound putting him at a whopping... 20 pounds! And he grew another inch as well. Talk about tall and skinny!
In other news... this just in... my son is in fact a prodigy. His vocabulary is now at 60+ words. To which our doctors said, "WHAT?!" The average, apparently, for children his age, including the ever superior girls, is 4-10 words. 4-10! What the crap?!
I'm not sure where he gets his averages. But here is what I found:
http://www.babycenter.com/0_your-18-month-olds-language-and-cognitive-development-speaki_1213794.bc
http://www.babycenter.com/400_my-18-month-old-still-doesnt-say-a-whole-lot-of-words-when-c_865181_753.bc
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Pediatrics-1429/2010/4/words-17-18-month.htm
http://www.parents.com/blogs/red-hot-parenting/2012/02/23/health/the-25-words-a-2-year-old-should-be-saying/
So, from just what I can find on these websites the range is anywhere from 4- 50 words. Who knows!
I'm sticking to my original assumption.... Gideon is a genius.
Monday, November 26, 2012
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Firsts
There is a first for everything. Or so they say.
We have experienced many firsts with Gideon.
First steps
First teeth
First food
First word
First time sleeping through the night (which we have had... though not consistently yet)
And now... first time out. Yes, there is even a first for discipline! Two of Gideon's favorite things to do are bite, and hit in the face. Two things I severely dislike. In fact both make my skin boil and I want to shove my fist in his face and rip out his brain. Of course, I have resisted, and instead take my revenge by enlisting the "time out chair". Really it's more of a little stool.
I have a little, I'm not sure how to call it, stool. It's more like a step, but anyway, it's big enough for him to sit on, but still have his feet hit the ground. We've been struggling with him for a while now with these two issues, and felt he was not ready developmentally for time out... until now.
So at the first opportunity I placed him in time out. And, so far it has worked. He has not bitten me since he was in time out. I will not call it success yet, but it worked so far.
Also, I start a new job tomorrow. So going to bed asap.
We have experienced many firsts with Gideon.
First steps
First teeth
First food
First word
First time sleeping through the night (which we have had... though not consistently yet)
And now... first time out. Yes, there is even a first for discipline! Two of Gideon's favorite things to do are bite, and hit in the face. Two things I severely dislike. In fact both make my skin boil and I want to shove my fist in his face and rip out his brain. Of course, I have resisted, and instead take my revenge by enlisting the "time out chair". Really it's more of a little stool.
I have a little, I'm not sure how to call it, stool. It's more like a step, but anyway, it's big enough for him to sit on, but still have his feet hit the ground. We've been struggling with him for a while now with these two issues, and felt he was not ready developmentally for time out... until now.
So at the first opportunity I placed him in time out. And, so far it has worked. He has not bitten me since he was in time out. I will not call it success yet, but it worked so far.
Also, I start a new job tomorrow. So going to bed asap.
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