Eleanor and Miranda recently turned thirteen months old and I’m later than usual in posting their thirteen-month photos. In this month’s photos, we have a few more pictures from Albert and Erin visiting to celebrate their birthday (and go to a wedding) and from their birthday party.
Since last month, Eleanor added one more tooth for a total of five. Miranda is still going strong with her four teeth. We added Miranda’s nighttime bottle back into the rotation, but we’ve pretty much cut out formula altogether. All of the bottles contain only whole milk. Miranda has been doing great with the solids and finger foods, and while we had some concern about her low weight a month ago, she’s been doing much better. Eleanor still doesn’t like chunks in her food unless it’s finger food, and there seems to be only a few finger foods she’s willing to eat. We’re still monitoring her weight to make sure she’s taking in enough calories.
Eleanor and Miranda are both throwing a ball now. Eleanor also will make an “uh-oh” sound whenever she drops something. Miranda likes to open books and make whole strings of syllables as if she’s reading the book. She’ll turn the page and continue with her reading. It sounds like some kind of alien language.
Eleanor has taken to pointing at things and going “Uh!” when she wants it. We’ve also been trying to get her to name some things. We’ll say “Big Bird” (from Sesame Street) and she’ll say “Duh Duh!”.
“Big Bird!”
“Duh Duh!”
“Big Bird!”
“Duh Duh!”
We don’t get very far with this. She also uses “Duh!” (just a single syllable) for “fish”. She does switch over to “Bah!” for ball, balloon, and book.
Neither of them are walking yet. They’re great at standing while holding things, or just barely touching something else for a sense of security, but as soon as they feel like they’re standing on their own, they sit down.
We’ll have another update in about another month.