Jydan - 19 Months

Age: 19Months

Weight: 9.6 Kilos 

Height: 80.5 cm

Learning:

 -Body parts (knows his nose, eyes, head, hair, belly button, feet, arms tongue and teeth... teaching him ears at the moment!)

-Animal Sounds (knows what an elephant, lion, tiger, bird, duck, dog, fish, snake makes)
- Different animals (focusing on elephants, giraffes, snakes and butterflies)
 -To climb (but not a climber)
-More and new things at swimming.

-To use a fork

-Learning to share.
-Nodding yes.. not just no all the time!

Milestones: 

-Learnt body parts.
-Animal sounds.
-Animal names.
-Following longer instructions.

 -Eating much better.

-Become more playful/ using imagination. 

-Getting better with sharing.
- We started him on milk instead of formula, but he lost weight, so we put him back on formula.

Teeth: 
Jydan has 16 teeth!! Just his two year old molars left!

Favourite Word/Sentences: 

-quack quack (he loveees ducks at the moment)
-Noo. Everything is No. Not Gonna. No way. haha! But he seems to have 'forgotten' his words?

Favourite Book: 

We have been hiring books from the library at the moment while we're packing , and he is loving all of them! Nothing like new books! 

Favourite Toy:

Anything chuggington!! Or anything that has ducks on it! And his slide, he is having so much fun with his slide!

Favourite Food: 

He is really liking his fruit at the moment, especially bananas!

Best Memory Of This Month:

Selling our house!! And buying a bigger one!! Definitely the best memory!

Child Health Nurse Appointment:

Jydan has lost another 100grams!! ANOTHER LOSS! Ugh! So so frustrating. Hopefully he picks it back up this month.

Doctors Appointment:
No need for a doctors appointment this month :).

Paediatrician Appointment:
 At the start of next month.

Dietitian Appointment:
Will find out if Jydan needs to continue seeing a dietitian at his peeds appointment since he is actually eating well now.

Speech Therapy Appointment:
Postponed for this month, but I do want to remake it.

Occupational Therapy Appointment:
 Waiting for an appointment.

Phyio Therapy: 

Went really really well, they don't want to see us again until the end of the year which is great. Jydan's ankle is turned in like I thought, he walks on the inside of his feet. We just have to make sure it doesn't get worse for now and keep him in boots to try and train his ankle straight. We also found that he has hips and knees are very flexible (we have found that his whole left leg kind of turns in), what people call 'double jointed', how funny is that? So his leg moving side ways ect is just normal for him! Maybe I do have my dancer on my hands???! 

Home Physio: 

Continuing to help Jydan sit correctly, I need to find more boots for him.

Jydan has stopped using a lot of his words lately, I know there is a bit of a speech regression at this ago, but he has gone from 2-3 word sentences, to just pointing and making sounds. I need to make another peads appointment, because it's not for another month, and another speech appointment and get it checked. The only reason I'm extra worried is because his head hasn't grown for a few months too.. with all his head problems, and us being on the look out for any problems with his speech because of  his head problems (meaning pressure on his brain) it's just ringing a few alarm bells. 

Will update though.

We are in the midst of packing up our whole house to move in a week & a half, and it's throwing out poor Jydan a bit. He doesn't understand what's going on obviously , and it's causing a few behavioural problems.  No tantrums as such, it's just in general. I'm sure things will improve when we settle into our new house. It also seems to be influencing how he's being sensitive to some sensory things, it seems more exaggerated in some aspects.

Aside from all that, Some how, I'm not sure how it's possible! Over the last couple of months I have completely and utterly fallen in love with Jydan MORE! I am so so in love with him. Not that I wasn't before, I don't know how that's possible, I think it's because he is at suuuch an amazing age right now. So so fun, imaginative, trying to explore and learn everything.. He has such an amazing personality. He is mastering climbing like a monkey, which is great because our new house has stairs! 

Jydan is at the age at the moment where he is really responding to kiddies his age (although he seems to love older kids more), he tries to say hello, hi-five's them, gives them cuddles, rubs them gently on their back, and looks right into their eyes. It's absolutely adorable watching him build these friendships!!

Jydan - 17 Months.

Age: 17 Months

Weight: 10.11 Kilos (22.28 pounds)

Height: 79 cm

Learning:

 -Body parts-New words and having conversations.
 -To climb (but not a climber)-To use a spoon
.-To sleep with a blanket (slowly! preparing for winter!)-Learning animal sounds (loves a rawing lion & an elephant)
-Nursery Rhymes. 

Milestones: 

- (almost) Day potty trained!!!-Some three word sentence (Gonna call mum, more that one, no not gonna, I want more, thank you mum, no don't want, I love you)-New words all the time.-Gaining weight really well.
 -Eating three meals a day & it's not just cheese!-Started wearing jocks instead of nappies through the day.-Become more playful/ using imagination. 

Teeth: 
I have no idea!!He just bites me now when I check. There's 11 or 12.

Favourite Word/Sentences:-Chun in ton (Chuggington, he loves, loves chuggington. And it's usually moooorree chun in ton, all day long!!) 

Favourite Book: Any animal book at the moment, he is loving learning about animals.And photo albums, pointing out all the people he knows.

Favourite Toy:Anything chuggington!! Especially the DVD's. He loves wearing his chuggington clothes too.

Favourite Food: Chicken. He doesn't have a huge favourite food at the moment, but he is really loving chicken! He is loving trying new foods at the moment which is really rare for him.

Best Memory Of This Month: The Playschool concert! I was so excited for this! And Jydan had so much fun playing with his little friend, Felix!I will definitely take Jydan to the next one :).

Child Health Nurse Appointment:Jydan is STILL gaining weight really well. It's amazing!! He is doing everything he is suppose to be doing. I think we will stop going monthly now & go every second month.

Doctors Appointment:
No need this month.

Paediatrician Appointment:
 In two months time.

Dietitian Appointment:
 Few more tips on getting Jydan to eat as usual. Try a new months worth of tricks. Next appointment booked for 3-4 months time.

Speech Therapy Appointment:
No appointment this month, still trying to use all the tips they gave us from the last appointment, will make another appointment after we have done them all.

Occupational Therapy Appointment:
 Appointment next month, still working on sensory issues.

Phyio Therapy: Still waiting to be called for our referral.

Home Physio: Continuing to help Jydan sit correctly, he seems to have gone back to W sitting alot more, I think that's because of sitting on the potty (not having his legs out straight). Starting to walk better though. Bending his legs alot more and has bought his base in.

Jydan seemed to grow up all of sudden really quickly this month, It seemed to be a huge difference between 16 months and 17 months. I guess he's so close to 1 & a half now!  He is talking alot more and saying lots of three word sentences now, as well as lots of two word ones. Sometimes he's hard to understand but he can be very clear with his speech - especially when he wants chuggington!He is completely chuggington obsessed!! He is nuts about it, from the moment he wakes up, to when he goes to bed, he just wants to watch or play with something chuggington related.

Jydan has gone down to just one nap now, which he has after lunch and sleeps for about 90 minutes, sometimes longer (yesterday was three hours, but I'm pretty sure that's the longest he has slept in his life!!). He was just ready to cut his second nap out, he wasn't sleeping properly at night, and hard to settle. He is much better now he just has the one!

Jydan is using his imagination and playing really well these days, entertaining himself , making up games for himself.. it's crazy cute! And when he laughs at himself because he has made up something hilarious!! He just brightens up my day, such an awesome personality.

Jydan is in size one tops now, 12-18 months, finally! But he is still in size 0's for bottoms (6-12months), he has such a little waist. I can't buy any cute sets together because he is in two different sizes.  Now he is eating really well and gaining weight amazingly, I think we will go through sizes really quickly now!!

The little man is doing so well with his toilet training too, but I'll leave that for the journey to the toilet post. :)