Saturday, February 28, 2009

Our baby is 17 months old!

My, where has the time gone? The wait to bring Jenni home seemed sooo long and sometimes impossible. Now, that we have her home the time is just zooming by. Jenni turned 17 months old on Feb. 24th. Our little peanut is becoming a real little person with ideas of her own. She is so compassionate and sweet yet at times so naughty. We do have to admit that about 90% of the time she really is a good little girl. She is very, very busy and VERY independent. She wants to do things herself. She won't allow us to feed her which sometimes is a messy event when she wants to feed herself yogurt or pudding. She has never been a big eater even in China. Food just doesn't seem to be very important to her even when she seems to be hungry. She is very slow eater and eats very lightly. I think she is just always going to be a petite little girl. We try and not FORCE food on her as we don't want eating issues later but the dr's worry about her low weight so try to encourage her to eat more whenever possible without "forcing" it on her. She is almost potty trained all of the way. She goes poo, poo on the toilet every time now unless she is sick but still has a hard time telling us when she has to go pee but we are working on it. We actually bought her some pull-ups this weekend. As it is easier to pull them off and on then a diaper. She jibbers alot but still only has about 10 distinguishable words and signs about 5 words. She still sleeps pretty well and really likes her 2 naps a day which is nice for mommy and daddy. I haven't taken any pictures lately as we have all been so sick for about the last 6 weeks but hopefully we can get some in the next week that I can download.

1 comment:

Joie Tian-Tian said...

What a big girl Jenni is becoming. Isn't it so much fun having this third little person around? They are definitely developing their own little opinions at this age.

Joie is 19 months and learning about the toilet. She never allows mom and dad to feed her anymore - thank goodness we have 3 little furry vacuum cleaners (chihuahuas) to perform "clean up on isle Joie". And she definitely has developed a discerning palet - anything green goes to the doggies.

We hope you have received Joie's "holiday" cards. Please visit us at Joie's blog
joietian-tian.blogspot.com.

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Take care - Joie, Karen and Dan.