Avonlea turns 14 months in a few days! I can't believe it. She still isn't "walking" persay. She will take up to 8 steps at a time, but she is such a fast crawler that she prefers that method to get where she wants to go. She will walk while holding one of your fingers though. I have been trying to put shoes on her everytime that we go out so that she can get down and practice walking if she walks to. I'm not really worried about it. Peytonn starting walking around 14 1/2 months as well. Plus, she could totally walk if she really wanted to. If she wasn't even attempting to take any steps on her own, I would be a little more concerned.
She's still doing well on the soy milk. I have even given her almond milk as well and she will drink that too. I've tried a little experiment lately of trying to figure out just where the sensitivity is: with drinking milk or all dairy products. I made some beef stew with mashed potatoes the other night. The mashed potatoes had both cream cheese and butter/milk in them. I gave her some with her beef stew. She gobbled it all down and didn't seem to have any sort of reaction to it. My next step will be regular cheese and yogurt and see if she has a reaction to that. I'm still too nervous to give her straight milk.
Her hair continues to grow and now looks like an out of control mop on the top of her head. Its so long it goes in her eyes and I want to trim is so bad, but I don't want her to have bangs. We've been clipping it to the side or putting a little pony tail on top of her head. When I give her a bath, it goes down past her neck on her back. She just has so much hair!!
She has also gotten both of her top front teeth, for a total of 4 teeth. There is another top tooth that is just about ready to pop through as well.
She can also climb the stairs up to the top bunk on the boys' bunk beds. She thinks she hot stuff!
In other news, my doc is a little concerned about my menstrual flow and I had to get blood drawn to see if there was a problem with my thyroid. All those tests came back normal. She would now like me to get an ultrasound to check for pollups or anything else that may be causing such heavy bleeding. I will most likely have that done in October.
Other than that, things are still busy around here. School is going great for the boys and they are really enjoying it. Peytonn got his first N.U.T. slip (no uniform today) for turning in so many Box Tops. He used it yesterday and loved getting to wear regular clothes to school. Although I have to say, having the uniform to wear makes things super easy in the mornings. And everyone seems to be sleeping well at night. Hooray!!!
