Matt, Rachel, and Cadence: Cadence at 15 months

This week we had Cade's 15 month well baby check up with Dr. Ginsberg. Per normal, Cade's growing like a champ and in our eyes, excelling at everything she does. (First time parent syndrome, for sure!)

Stats:
Weight: 23 pounds, 2 oz, 50-75%
Height: 32.1 inches, 90%
Head circumference: 18 inches, 25-50%
immunizations: Pentacel #4, Prevnar #4

The last several months have been huge for Cade developmentally. She started walking just within the last week! We're in trouble! She still crawls when she lacks to motivation to pull herself to standing, but enjoys walking around the house and when we're out and about, often times preferring to hold Matt or my hand. Cade likes to mimic everything we do, including drinking from mugs or cups, writing, talking on or playing with cell phones, writing. At a restaurant recently, Cade was very happy to color with crayons on her palcemat. I got the idea to try Color Wonder markers and Cade really enjoys them, almost as much as I enjoy the lack of clean up! At meal time, Cade likes using small spoons and forks to feed herself but still requires assistance getting the food on the utensils. We still see Cade signing to us but we have decreased our signing to her in hopes of getting her to be more verbal. When prompted, she repeats things and still uses a fair amount of gibberish. Cade's words include: woof woof, read, rock, ni-night, milk, more, all done, animal sounds (meow, moo, sometimes quack quack) hi, bye-bye, Mama, Dada, Nana, Papa, Nick, Tom, Toot-Toot, Todd, Rob, Georgia, Michael, ball, yeah, and I love you. *Keeping in mind, most of these names we're used to hearing so to the person on the street, they might now know what the heck she's saying!

Cade has recently fallen in love with Baby Einstein videos and asks for them specifically, "baba ya-ya". She enjoys stacking the DVDs as much as watching them. She giggles incessantly when the caterpillar first scoots across the screen and when some of the puppets do silly things. She loves music, both in the DVDs, in Gymboree class, in singing silly songs, and loves my iPod. Her favorite song is Party Rock Anthem and she LOVES to dance to it and other upbeat songs. She'll walk into our room, point at the iPod, and fist pump in the air so we'll dance with her.

We're having a blast with our growing girl!