I have solidly come to the conclusion that Ileigh has spent so much of her life crying and upset, she has not been able to work on her brain functions.
Ileigh is not talking, she's not walking, she is not doing any of those cute little things that the cute little babies on my parenting boards are doing. I belong to two of them. One board has babies up to 4 months younger than our Ileigh. Are they at least walking OR talking? Yes. I swear I am going to punch one more person who says, "13 months? Oh gosh, my (insert friend or relative here) has a 13 month old who can recite the alphabet. Yeah, and they just finished reading the DiVinci Code to her.... she picks it off the bookshelf every night for her story time." HA!
You may say, do you read to Ileigh? Yes we do, until she pry's the book from our hands clocks us over the head with it, and then steps on my breasts to step over me in order to get to the lamp on her bedside table. Well, do you practice words and pictures with her? Well yes we do, and she has said what we thought were words before, but apparently not because she stopped saying all of them. Well, she must be working on her motor skills. Well, no not really. She can stand for a few seconds and will take a step or two... same as she was doing 2 months ago. Guess I won't be putting her on the waiting list for the gifted school just yet. Whaaaaaaaaaaa.
2 comments:
Average age for walking is 13 months, which means that 50 percent (!) walk later than 13 months. Plus, everybody knows that parents on message boards have a tendency to exagerate (okay, lie) about their kids seeing as how they usually don't have to prove it!
actually, the average is 14 months. Iliegh is fine! She's just a active little girl who sees no need to do any of those other things. One day soon she'll do just like Elias and take off walking. I think it helps for her to be in situations with other babies her age that are walking. Elias started about 2 weeks after being put into the 1s room where everyone was walking but him. I recall Amy saying the same thing about Lily and a trip where all the kids were walking but her. Peer pressure!
I don't know what will happen with the talking. We don't exactly have a talker here either. Elias was wowing us with his ONE word the other day, Daddy. He's not even saying that now. Most of the time I can't get the stinker to look at me when I call his name.
I bet Ileigh will be surpassing your expectations in no time at all. Relax, let her be a baby for now. :)
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