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EncycloLydia

6.11.10


Lydia is 15 months old today! So, it’s time for a little EncycloLydia. She can say “bye” (sort of) and “uh oh.” She also says “muh muh muh” when she wants something. She walks and runs and does a mean knee-bending dance whenever she hears music.

She’s got 4 front teeth and both of her upper cuspids are just breaking through (I had to google names of teeth to come up with that one, by the way). When we were in Guangzhou, China, she weighed just under 16 lbs. At her last appointment, she weighed over 17 1/2 lbs. In less than 8 weeks, she gained 1 3/4 lbs–remarkable really since a child between 12-24 mo. typically gains 3-5 lb. in a whole year (googled that too).

She loves my car keys, the telephone, and any little thing she can hold onto that is not a toy. She also loves climbing in the frig and stealing the utensil holder from the dishwasher.


Climbing stairs has also become a favorite activity. She turns into a crazy mermaid in the bath, flopping around everywhere when we turn the water on. She loves eggs, any fruit, and any noodles with tomato sauce. And, she loves ice cubes. She still takes 4 bottles a day, 8 oz. of soy formula each (hence why she’s gaining weight).

She still has the hole in her heart (VSD) that she was diagnosed with as an infant. But, we’re fairly sure she won’t need any surgical intervention to repair it. Yea! She did fail her hearing test last week though. So, we have an ENT appointment scheduled for July and are prepared for them to tell us she needs tubes in her ears. And, as you can see, she gets PLENTY of attention around here–from her family and others (she was quite a distraction at Evan’s field day on Tuesday. Don’t worry. I didn’t let her get too overwhelmed by the admirers.).

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Wanna Cry?

6.10.10

Go to a kindergarten graduation ceremony. Gets me every time.




(For the record, it’s said like “Rod-enbush” not “Rau-denbush” as it is spelled.)


Drew and Lydia anxiously waiting for Ashlyn’s class to arrive on stage (and Lydia does in fact have keys in her mouth. They are her favorite toy…and pacifier). They lasted in these seats for…not even 2 seconds. As soon as Ashlyn walked onto stage, Drew went and sat on the floor up front. Seconds later, Lydia joined him. A few minutes later, I did too since those two can’t really be trusted (as you can tell from the video of the diploma hand-off).

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