He's really like a little toddler already. He's growing taller for sure and is just a hair over 23 pounds. He's starting to wear 18 month clothes and got his first pair of shoes this past weekend! He's really not crawling at all anymore and is now even starting to run, so it was time to break down and buy him shoes. It sort of pained me to spend the money for good shoes knowing he'll only be in them for a couple months, but we looked all around and finding a size 4 in boys shoes that aren't completely generic looking was tough, so we settled on these!
He was like a drunken sailor when he first walked in them! It was really funny how wobbly he was, but he got the hang of it quickly and now he think he's pretty cool in them, and they can help him run around and chase his sister!
He's on all regular table food now and eats absolutely anything we give him. He hasn't seemed to dislike anything, in fact I joke that he may not have that sense to tell him that he's full because he'll keep eating as long as we give him something. Hannah calls him an eating machine! He likes pancakes and waffles and sweets, but also does great with all fruits and vegetables and even meat too! We have pretty much given him all the basic stuff except eggs and peanut butter and he seems to tolerate everything well, so I'm pretty sure we're in the clear with allergies. I'll probably start introducing whole milk into his bottles this weekend and hopefully be done with formula within another month. We've been working on letting him drink from a cup, but it's slow going.
No new teeth yet, I can see them coming, but none have poked through the gums yet - lots of drool lately so they're coming!
He's really got so much energy and is just such a different personality from Hannah. He plays rougher, doesn't sit still and is very strong willed. He can throw a full on tantrum on the floor when he's mad and then snuggle up and be so stinkin' sweet two seconds later. He loves getting into the cupboards and pulling out the boxes of crackers....oh and I guess cracker is one of his "real words" of his vocabulary.
He has really started noticing the phone lately. When he sees a phone, he puts his hand to his ear. He'll do that when you tell him to say hello. And he puts other things like the remote or other toys to his ear like a phone too.
He's finally sleeping through the night!!! This has been a much welcomed victory this past month. He still cries out a couple times a night, but it's been a few weeks since I've gone in there at night since he can now more easily soothe himself back to sleep. I never thought we'd get to sleep all night again! I'm so very thankful it happened! He'll sleep most mornings until 7-7:30 and still goes to bed most nights between 8-8:30. He only takes one afternoon nap now unless he sneaks in a cat nap in the car or something.
He still very much likes his binky. We finally wised up at Christmas and bought the binky strings to attach to his shirt. I think that's what has helped at night - he can find his own binky easily.
He loves to take a bath and splashes all over the place. He doesn't have much fear, which is scary. He's a climber, which is also scary. I'm wondering how long we have before he figures how to climb out of his crib!
He's a real stinker most of the time, but then he'll flash his cute ole' smile at me and I melt all over the place. He sure put my nerves to the test this evening trying to take his picture.....that is an impossible task because he won't sit in one place for more than 2 seconds and the times that he does, of course he's not looking at me! This one was the best we could do.
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