McKenna Pre-Toddler Summary: 15 Months Old

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A full summary of life for this 15 month old. Find out what daily life was like and find a 15 month old sample schedule to follow.

Things have been good for McKenna the last couple of weeks. They have been kind of crazy with summer activities, but so far we have managed to pretty much keep her so she gets the sleep she needs for the most part. That won’t be the case all summer, but I am glad it has been thus far.

EATING

She is still eating a whole lot of food. I am really not exaggerating. People comment on it all the time. She loves to eat and eats a lot.

She had a couple of days where she slowed down, but then she jumped right back up again.

Someone pointed out that she never holds still, and that is true. For a girl, she is quite a mover. Even in my womb I knew she would be that way. She was a mover.

With Kaitlyn, I would reach the end of the day and realize I hadn’t felt her kick that day, so I would lay down and do the kick counts. I figured that was pregnancy with a toddler to chase.

Well, McKenna never left me wondering. She was sure to kick and kick hard. She is kind of a paradox. She will sit happily in your lap, but at the same time, she usually is at least waving a leg around in the air. She is constantly moving something around.

People around me who have seen the massive amounts of food she eats have been asking lately what her pooping is like. Ahh parents. Aren’t we funny?

So I thought maybe some of you are wondering. If not, then you aren’t fully grasping how much food she eats. Her poop amounts aren’t over the top. She poops three times a day and they aren’t huge. She just must have a fast metabolism and she is always moving something. My husband has a very fast metabolism, so I am guessing she got it too. Lucky girl. I wish I could eat like she does 🙂

Purees

McKenna has pretty much banned purees from her diet. Every so often you can get them in her, which I still attempt because she doesn’t like to eat whole green veggies. But most days, she just eats extra carrots, sweet potatoes (yams), or squash.

PLAYING

Things have been busy. There have even been most days she doesn’t have a chance for independent play. When I do it, she is still fine. I am hoping this week I can be sure to get it in there every day because it is something I do not like missing.

We have had morning swimming lessons, so that has taken from our independent play time. Then we have been busy during afternoon waketime and of course evening is family time….so this week our afternoons should be calm and we should work this in.

SLEEPING

No issues sleeping. At all. She is amazing.

So I shared about how we went camping and she slept until we woke her at 8:30 AM despite her noisy siblings by her. Amazing.

We went camping again this last weekend, and she again slept until 8:30, although this time she woke up on her own at 8:30. She is such a deep sleeper.

I started tracking her naps with the spreadsheet I made that I talked about last time. I am not tracking anymore because it was of no interest. Every day was “went down quickly. Slept until I woke her.” for both naps. She obviously is not at a point of needing to tweak naps at all right now.

COMMUNICATION

This last weekend, McKenna said her first sentence. “Hi Daddy.” She also said, “I did it!” but I am not so sure I would really count that as a sentence. I think in her mind, it is more of a single word. I am pretty shocked. I was telling a friend Friday she would be a later sentence speaker, and this is early. We will see what happens.

She doesn’t say a high number of words–she is pretty average. But she is progressing. And she is very good at communicating what she wants, with or without words.

She does mix up her sign language quite often. She is getting better with doing “all done” correctly, but if she is being impatient, “more” is pretty much signed to mean whatever she is thinking at the moment. You basically can tell with her eyes, but she is so good at non-verbals that even Brayden can tell you what her “more” means…more, all done, yeah…..

MINI-FITS

We still haven’t escalated to full fits yet. She pretty much growls when she is upset. She is pretty chill and willing to go with the flow.

If you tell her no, most of the time she is content to do something else instead. Yes, she is tenacious, but typically as she is trying over and over, she is laughing about it. She isn’t frustrated or upset. Then she moves on to something new. But at this point, she usually moves on to something new right away without a fight.

15 month old pretoddler schedule

SCHEDULE

Our schedule is different than usual right now:

8:30 AM–wake, get dressed, eat (fruit mixed with yogurt, oatmeal, milk). Go to swimming lessons.
10:20 AM–get home.
10:30 AM–nap.
12:30 PM–wake, lunch, sibling playtime. Independent playtime for one hour if we are home.
2:30 PM–nap
4:30-5:00 PM–wake, play until dinner time.
5:30ish PM–dinner with family. Finger foods and what we are having. She also has milk. Then time with family.
7:30 PM–Bath, PJs, story, prayers, bed.

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