Our sweet Parker Campbell Klein is
fifteen months old! His Omi was in town for his fifteen month check-up last week, where we learned little man is now 31.5 inches tall and just shy of 21 pounds! Here's what's been happening the past couple months...
Hair: What a mop head! Lots of
crazy curls in the back now, we think it’s finally time for little man’s first haircut!
Diapers: Huggies Little Movers Size
3
Clothes: Some 12-month and mostly
18-month now
Health: Working on our molars!
Teething central over here. Tons. Of. Drool.
Sleep: Though we have had some
naptime disruptions due to teething, Parker is still an incredible sleeper. I
think he needs his sleep since he is
constantly moving for the entire time he is awake! Parker still sleeps 11ish
hours every night, and takes a morning and afternoon nap. Parker always goes
down really easily – little man loves his sleep!
Diet: Parker stopped nursing
soon after he turned 13 months old. He was down to just one nursing a day, and
was already enjoying cow’s milk from a sippy cup so the transition was very
easy and natural for him. Parker is loving his cow’s milk, and drinks it with
all three meals. Parker tried lasagna at fourteen months and it became his real
first word! He is too cute when he says it! It sounds something like layala. Other favorite foods over the
past couple months have been blackberries, green peas, bagels with cream
cheese, yogurt, blueberry muffins, freeze dried corn kernels, and whatever is
on mommy or daddy’s plate (most recently salmon arugula salad).
Likes: Parker points to the
Exit signs above doors whenever we are out. He loves identifying them and Dada
is working on teaching Parker the letters. Parker is also obsessed with the
gorilla in his picture dictionary and “rilla” became his second real word. He
will open the dictionary, point to the picture and say “rilla!” Parker
continues to love books, both being read to and “reading” them on his own. He
is happy when he can walk all around, and usually can be found emptying all his
toys from their bins and carrying them around, or chasing balls around the
house. He enjoys walking while shaking his maracas, and "roughhousing". Parker loves
balloons and points to them excitedly whenever we see them (usually at the
grocery store), and still loooves swimming and the water.
Social: Parker is a curious
little fella! After he turned thirteen months, he started wanting to know the
names of everything he saw. He points and says “dat”, over and over. As a
parent it’s so incredible to see him wanting to know more about the world
around him! We happily identify and describe everything he asks about. He
especially loves pointing to clocks, ceiling fans and stop signs (real and in
books). Parker can also point to many of his favorite items when prompted (e.g.
“Parker, where’s the clock?” or “Parker, where’s Dada?”). He loves raising his
hands above his head when we ask “How big is Parker?” and can also pat his
stomach when we ask where his belly is, stick out his tongue when prompted, and
roar when we ask him what sound a lion makes. Parker has been communicating
using the sign for “more” (tapping fingers together in front of oneself). It
took us a while to figure out what he was doing as we thought he was clapping
at first! Now he readily signs “more” , especially when eating graham crackers
or ice cream!
Milestones: Parker has finally
started crawling! This is very backwards as he has been walking since 12 months
old. Parker could do an army crawl, but just recently started crawling on all
fours. He still prefers walking and has gotten really good at pulling himself
up to a standing position and bending down to pick things up. Cognitively,
Parker is making huge developmental leaps every day. He is soaking up language
and vocabulary and surprises us all the time with what he knows. Soon after he
turned thirteen months, Max was reading him a book and when they flipped to the
page with a picture of the mother, Parker pointed over at me! We have another
book with a Mama bird that talks, and when we read the word “Mama” Parker will
look for me. We expect his vocabulary for word comprehension is in the few
dozens (he understands the words eat,
milk, outside, moon, clock, airplane, letters, numbers, light, car, and fan just to name a few). Parker’s
spoken vocabulary, however, is holding at lasagna,
gorilla, and vanilla. He seems to
prefer multi-syllable, obscure words, ha! Parker will also repeat “bye bye”
when we say it.
Firsts: Parker attended his first
rodeo for his GiGi’s birthday! He had his first donut (yum!), first babysitter
outside of family when Mama and Dada did a date-night, and first over-nights
without us when we flew to Alabama!
Happy summertime, PCK!
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