It’s time for me to stop and look at how my son is growing and developing now-a-days. I love these posts. I’m always amazed at how much he’s learning and how quickly he’s growing. Here are a few things we’ve noticed in the last couple of months.
He is understanding simple commands. When we say “Jack, pick that up” or “Jack, can you find the so-and-so?” he does the command or finds the object without any hesitation. Okay, so he doesn’t always follow the command, but he knows what we’re asking him to do. What amazes us is that it’s not just the repetitive things he’s able to follow – things we do all the time. It’s the things we come up with that he either hasn’t done or hasn’t heard before that make us aware of how smart he is. I love when you say “let’s go change your diaper,” and he goes straight to the stairs.
I mentioned that he’s learning sign language now. What I didn’t realize is that he’s using these new signs in ways we didn’t expect. He is signing “all done” when he wants us to pick him up or get him down from somewhere. After wondering about it for a while, we figured out that we always take him down from the high chair when he signs ‘all done’, so it makes sense that he uses that sign when he wants us to get him up higher (like onto the back of the couch so he can look out the windows), or when he wants to get down from somewhere (like from the back of the couch when he’s done looking out the window).
He’s a good eater. He eats *almost* everything we put on his tray. The only things he won’t eat are eggs and cottage cheese. Other than that, he’ll eat most everything else we offer him. And he can eat normal bite sizes for the mot part too. We don’t have to make sure everything is super tiny when he eats. He likes big mouthfuls, and he does a good job of chewing most things. Though, he does swallow things whole more often than we first assumed. His diapers prove that. Oh, and he LOVES vegetables. He loves all vegetables, but his favorite is broccoli. Isn’t that weird?? We love it, but we’re surprised by it.
He has the cutest babble recently. He says “bee-da bee-da bee-da bee-da.” That doesn’t come through as cute as it sounds. Say it really fast, hardly moving your mouth, just your lips, and you have a hint of how cute it is. It makes us laugh each time.
His one year molars are coming in now. He has 2 molars that have finally cut through. It took them around a month, but it wasn’t too traumatic for us. He didn’t loose a ton of sleep, but he did chew on everything that he could get his hands on. I’m glad to see them coming through. Now he’ll have a bit of relief before the bottom two come through.
Another cute thing he does is that when he finds something he wants to play with (usually my cell phone, keys or sunglasses) he says, “Oooohhhh!” His inflections with his oooohs and awwwws, are just so adorable.
The biggest news is something that just happened last night. He slept through the night!!! This is the first. time. EVER! I hope this lasts for a while, but my hopes aren’t too high yet. His night was different last night. Because of our Valentine Date, Aunt Beth got to put him to bed last night. That may have been what made the difference. I’m pretty sure she won’t want to drive down to my place every night to put my son to sleep, so this may have been a one-night occurrence for him.
Our little guy is growing up so fast. We love seeing him change and develop as he grows, and I love sharing what he’s doing. He’s a special little guy, and we’re blessed to have him in our lives!
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Way to go sleeping through the night! We know all about those struggles! Little Man did it once at 4 months old and then about every third night at 15 months. Now at 16 months, he'll sleep through almost every night.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear the molars weren't too rough on you. We're still waiting for the 12 month molars although he's a drool factory!