Taelyn - 15-18 Months

Taelyn’s past three months have been all about talking, talking, talking. She started speaking again at the start of 15 months and continued non-stop from there. Some of her favorite words include apple (with a heavy emphasis on the “a”), uh-oh, ball, and Abby (from Sesame Street). We have counted well over 20 words, not including animal sounds that she makes when we say the name of an animal (she particularly likes to say” baa” for sheep and “reow, reow” for cat, and our favorite is her “roar” for lion that she just started saying after we visited the Lion Park this past weekend). Just recently, Taelyn also used two words together: “wa ba” for water bottle, and she said “Hi Da” when she saw her daddy enter in to the car.

Activities that Taelyn loves to partake in are playing with a ball, going to a playground, playing with older toddlers, dancing, reading her books, and watching Sesame Street and Veggie Tales. Some of her favorite books are Ten Apples Up on Top and Spot Goes to the Park. And when we start up Veggie Tales, she gets very excited and starts to dance, sing, and yell with enthusiasm. After she has finished watching Sesame Street, she also gets a little hyper as she watches the different characters do their own segments of dancing. She has her own way of announcing which character will come on to dance next. For Big Bird, she yells “Ba bir,” and “Eeee” for Burt and Ernie. She makes a very raspy “uh” sound over and over for Cookie Monster because that is how his laugh sounds. She yells out “Abby” with a very high pitch when Abby comes on, and for Elmo, she either says “aye, yi, yi, yi” which is her way of singing the Elmo’s World song or she just screams at the top of her lungs because she is so excited to see him.

Taelyn also started to tickle this past month. She loves to dig her little fingers under someone’s chin and say “ticka ticka ticka ticka.” She is actually quite good at, and it does really tickle. Our favorite is when she does this to Kaelia. It’s pretty cute.

At her 18 month doctor’s appointment, Taelyn weighed 22.7 lbs. She has grown taller since then (about 32 inches), but her weight is actually less than her 15 month check-up as she loses more and more baby fat. And now Taelyn is officially finished with her baby wellness check-ups.

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