We took the kids for their 18 month well-checks this week. Collins is still a little bitty thing, but both she & Casen are growing well along their individual curves. It's always interesting to me to compare their measurements:
Casen Collins
Height 33.25 inches (76%) 30.25 inches (13%)
Weight 24 lbs (24%) 19.8 lbs (2%)
Head Size 18.75 inches (45%) 17.5 inches (6%)
Developmentally, they are meeting all of their milestones except for speech. They both are very good with receptive speech, meaning they understand what we say to them. However, they're still delayed with their expressive speech. They can both say "mama" & "dada" well. Casen is trying hard to say a lot of different words, but has only been able to get one syllable mastered so far (for example, he says "du" for duck or "ack" for quack). Case is picking up sign language pretty well & uses 6-10 signs to communicate with us. Collins knows the sign for "more", but is being a bit stubborn expanding her signing vocabulary. Since they are still behind with speech, we'll be starting speech therapy in the next couple of weeks. It will be interesting to see what techniques we work on during therapy & how quickly they pick up words.
We definitely have a couple of water babies!! We bought spring floats for them to use in the pool this summer. They tolerate the floats for limited amounts of time, but know that they cannot do all they'd like strapped into the float. Casen is a bit of a wild man - he loves to jump towards Bryan from a step or ledge & makes his mommy a nervous wreck! I'm happy to say that neither one of them is afraid of the water. In fact, they actually like getting their faces wet! Casen loves to blow bubbles in the water & Collins splashes non-stop. We went to some friend's home for the 4th of July & were able to enjoy some swim time. We dunked the kids under water for the first time, & they both loved it! They kept wanting to put their faces back in the water. They're going to have a blast at baby swim lessons in a couple of weeks!
Casen dunking with mommy.
Collins dunking with daddy.
Collins in her spring float
Case in his spring float
Happy July 4th, 2012
We had watermelon at the swim party & the kids would not let go of the rinds and cried if we tried to take them away. They gnawed them all they way down to the green!
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