Just a quick update for the family.

Daphne is 14 months old today. I’ve been telling people we meet that she’s almost 13 months. Whoops. I don’t know where my head has been lately.

At 14 months Daphne weighs about 19.75 lbs and is 30 inches long. That puts her at 10th percentile for weight, and 43rd for height. I was surprised when we weighed her, I really thought she was catching up based on the amount of food she has been eating. Last Friday she ate a good breakfast, lunch, several snacks and then a quesadilla kid’s dinner platter at Los Cucos, followed by half of my frozen custard from Ritter’s. Oh yeah, and she’s still breastfeeding twice a day.

Daphne has 5 teeth now and I think is getting ready to have another top tooth break through. She has started to climb. She had her first scraped knee last week. Her sleep pattern changes a lot. She goes from sleeping 12 hours at night with one day nap, to 10 hours at night with 2 day naps. I prefer 2 naps- one for me to get stuff done and the other for a nap for me. Daphne’s still a screamer. In fact, she really doesn’t cry much, she just shrieks. You know how they say your second kid is much different than your first. Well, I just hope possible baby #2 is more laid back. I don’t think I could handle two little banshees. I feel terrible every time I put her in the nursery at church or our Tuesday morning mom’s group. She screams and screams. Sometimes she settles down… sometimes.

She can be so stubborn (who does she get THAT from?! hehehe). She likes to read one of her BabyBug magazines from the summer and when I ask her to point out all the beach balls, she’ll go from page to page pointing them out. She has even said “ball” three or four times. Then I’ll ask her again to point out the balls and she’ll look at me, shake her head “no” and put the magazine down. She also does that when I work with her on pointing out body parts. When I ask her “Where’s Mommy’s nose?” she’ll touch my nose once and that’s it. End of game. You are boring me, Mommy. Let’s go play with my car.

I’m patiently (or not so patiently) waiting for the vocabulary explosion that supposedly happens around 18 months or so. I have been slightly worried about her speech, but I know that’s just me overreacting since she’s right on target for 14 months. I guess I expected her to be talking in full sentences like I was at her age, or at least saying no, please or bye. For now her vocabulary is limited to mama, dada, hi, Ginger, ball, and possibly Poppa.

She is so much fun to be with. Even though I’ve been totally stressed out the last week and even admitted to Chris that I’d like to run away on some of her crabby days (not that I would), I still miss her when we aren’t together. And for the last 14 months I think I’ve been away from her for a total of 10 hours. Or if you count the whole gestation period you could say I’ve only missed 10 hours of her life since Dec 25, 2006. Dang, I need a night out!

Daphne and I will be going to our mom’s group this morning, then possibly a picnic at a local park. It’s been a long time since she played on the swings and I think she’ll enjoy it. Stay tuned for pics.