Blake ~ One Year Milestones

Blake had his one year well baby visit last Thursday. I was a little distracted with everything because I took Avery to be seen as well because her eyes were extremely swollen that morning. I think he weighed in at 21 lbs, his height was around 29 inches, making his percentages come in at 50% & 25%, I think.

Milestones

• he will stand up in the middle of the room without holding on to anything. And will even take 2-3 steps on his own. He just gets really excited and starts laughing and then falls!
• his first real word (other than mama and dada) is CAR. It's sooooo cute when he says it. And he definitely knows what a car is.
• he loves for me to read him books and he will point at the pictures
• he has two favorite things to play with; cars.....any car will do, and balls.
• he has been shaking his head no for quite a while now but now he will also shake his head yes, really its more like a nod and it sounds like he's saying yes.
• he's pretty good with following directions. If I ask him to get his car, he'll get his car, etc.
• just recently started drinking whole milk. I was worried he wouldn't like it because he's been so used to drinking his formula warm, but he seems to love it! He drinks it from a straw cup.
• he's been eating pretty much everything we eat since about 8 months. When we have things that are harder to chew I still warm up a jar of baby food for him. For the most part he just wants to feed himself. We've tried giving him a spoon but he just throws it down and uses his hands so for now we're sticking with things that we can cut up and not stuff to eat with a spoon.....way too messy! So far there hasn't been anything that he really won't eat. He is still shoveling food into his mouth!
• he gets really shy around strangers, but at the same time, loves the attention
• he loves me! and I love him! sometimes he just wants to sit and cuddle with me and I love it. Our one on one times in the morning have been so much fun. He is always making me laugh. He really is such a goofball! He'll do something funny and then come and cuddle with me. It's funny how excited I get when he says a new word or does something new. It's been 3 years since I had a little one this age and it all feels so new and exciting again. The 2 year difference was exciting too but the extra year difference just makes it that much more exciting........hard to explain.
• recently found out he does NOT like shoes. I don't know if it's just shoes in general or that specific pair. Now that he's so close to walking we really need to find a pair that he will wear.
• really looks up to his sisters. He's always seemed pretty attached to Allie and now that he's getting some time alone with Avery he's starting to get attached to her too.
• he is an awesome sleeper. He goes to bed when the girls go to bed and wakes up when they wake up. His naps, although not as consistent now due to the back to school schedule, are still happening twice a day. He only gets 45 min to an hour in the morning before we have to go get Avery. And then he gets about 2 hours in the early afternoon before we get Allie from the bus stop.
• he's just an extremely happy, giggly, fun little boy!

he puts everything in his mouth. Drives me crazy! I'm pretty sure he has eaten a dead fly among other things before.