She's officially no longer a baby! Lauren turned one January 8. I can't believe how fast the first year goes by. We had a really nice party for her on Saturday and she of course loved all the attention. Obviously from the pictures you can see she enjoyed the cake!
Lauren has continued to make some really nice progress in her therapies. She is starting to cruise around slowly. She asserts her independence, and often doesn't want help with feeding herself, standing, etc. Just today she clapped her hands a few times, unprompted. She also said "Mama" today, but I am not convinced she said it purposely with meaning, as much as I would love to think that she did! She was whining for me at the time, so maybe...
Lauren does seem to be stuck in some 9 month behaviors. She still mouths objects and toys quite a bit, and she bangs objects constantly. Yes, that was a goal we were happy to see her achieve, but it is still a 9 month skill, so I am hoping she will keep trucking along those milestone markers. One of the therapists suggested it was typical for her to be at that phase, since she hasn't been crawling that long. She hasn't had the opportunity to check everything out in her environment to be past some of the 9 month skills. Her fine motor skills are not terribly impressive. They are improving, but with all the advancements she has made with her gross motor skills, they say not to be surprised that the fine motor skills and language skills have taken a backseat. She doesn't have much precision with her hands. She overshoots and pushes with her hands instead of grasping objects, and she doesn't turn her hands over well.
Here are some developmental goals I have for Lauren: waving bye-bye, turning hands over to look at palms, dropping objects in a container, stacking objects or placing them in rows, using a spoon better, cruising, babbling, recognizing family members' names, less rocking and head-banging.
All things considered, we continue to feel fortunate with all of Lauren's strengths, but we have much to work on!
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About Me
- Connie
- Jerry and I have three daughters: Katelyn is 6, and in the 1st grade. She is in her 5th year of ballet. Kristen is 4, in pre-school, and switched from ballet to gymnastics and loves it! Lauren turned 2 years old on January 8, 2008. We live in Holly, Michigan.
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11 comments:
I love the new pictures! She definately looks like she enjoyed her special day, and her cake!
All three of your girls are just beautiful.
Sounds like Lauren is really doing well. Michaela was, and still is, VERY independent and refuses to let anyone help her. I think her first sentence was "I do it myself"!
Happy Birthday Lauren!!
The photos are gorgeous, you have 3beautiful daughters!
Lauren sounds like she is doing great!!
xxoo
Happy Birthday Lauren!
Love all the pictures!
Keith banged a lot too until he learned how to play with toys appropriately. Sounds to me like she is doing great!
Happy Birthday Lauren! She is such a doll! (actually, all your girls are!). It sounds like she is doing great - that's wonderful she's trying to cruise around furniture and even feed herself. Sounds like you all are doing great things with her!!!! Keep us updated.
Glad to see the new pictures. I love the one of all the girls at the top!!
There is always a never ending list to work on but enjoy the small victories..."mama" is great!
Happy Birthday Lauren!
Noel
Happy Birthday Lauren! I love all the pictures especially the one with her cake face.
Happy Birthday Lauren! Glad to see you doing well. See you soon!
J-Skin,Jayse, and Veronica
Happy Birthday Lauren!
Your girls are adorable and Lauren sounds like she is doing just great. You will have so much fun this next year. Emerson is turning 2 in a few weeks and I am so sad to leave the "1's" behind. Take care and welcome to blogging!!
Nicole
I forgot to mention Ava Jewel use to head bang, I use to tell the doctors it was like she was trying to go through the walls. Well next thing you know she was doing it anymore. I like that you make goals for her, something I never even thought of and will be making my list before her EI evaul on the 30th, thanks!
Anna
Wow! She's absolutely adorable and she's doing so great!! My daughter Abbi is very close in age to Lauren, so we have many of the same goals. She's doing better with fine motor and just recently began crawling everywhere at 14 months. So, like you, I think that next "milestone" is always just around the corner!
Your girls are absolutely beautiful. You will be surprised how much she will do in the next year. When Noah turned 1 he wasn't even sitting up. He just turned 2 in January and he is walking, climbing ( age appropriatly, he is such a boy), and starting to jump up and down. She is going to take off now. You'll see.
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