Eliza is already 15 months old! I can't believe how fast the time has flown or how much she is maturing. She's talking and signing more words every day. She's playing and interacting more with Hazel. She's climbing on everything.
Notice I say maturing, not growing up. She really isn't growing up quickly. At her 15th month appointment she had grown a bit taller and was up for 29 1/2 inches (15th percentile). But she only gained about 8 oz since her one year appointment bring her to an itty bitty 16 lbs 4 oz (she is well below the 1st percentile - like 3/4 of an inch below the bottom of their little graph). But she is growing and so the doctor is not concerned. As for her blood, the final results from all of her blood work confirm what the hematologist told me the in the office - her body shows signs of inflammation but the test is non-specific meaning that they don't know what is causing the inflammation. It could have been anything from a virus to a chronic condition. But her blood counts are recovering and are now on the "very low end of normal." So the plan is still to re-check her blood in three months to see if the anemia and the inflammation have resolved or if they need to further investigate the cause of the inflammation.
Health aspects aside, our little E is thriving! First off, she climbs, all the time, on everything. She has learned to climb on the kitchen chairs and then up to the table. I turn my head to stir dinner and next thing I know she's standing on the table. She uses toy crates as step-stools to try and climb shelves. She climbs up on the couch and our bed with ease. We are going to go crazy trying to keep her safe until she learns not to climb up things. I just hope we can avoid broken bones or stitches until then.
Little E is an adventurer. Today at the park I had to laugh. Hazel is still afraid to go down slides and always wants me to pull her leg, catch her at the bottom, etc. But there's Eliza, climbing up the stairs and sliding down a small slide on her tummy. Over, and over, and over again:)
Cute, crazy little Eliza. Keep up the adorableness! We love you!
On a completely unrelated note.... look at our pumpkin harvest this year! 10 pumpkins! (one isn't in the picture). Four of them were pie pumpkins that made about the equivalent of 8 small cans of pumpkin puree- yum! The other six will get carved. The two green ones were late bloomers so we'll see if they're orange in time for Halloween. If not, Thanksgiving decorations maybe? That was a few dollars in seeds very well spent!
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