What a busy month it has been. We went up Princeton and spent a weekend with the Chens. I spent 5 days in Atlanta while you and Erik stayed home with Victor and Grandma Kay. Now we are spending time in WI/MN visiting family and friends. Busy!
You have changed a lot this month. You prefer walking over crawling. You are talking more now -- consistently use words for mommy, dada, dog, cat, bye-bye, thank you, cheese (when taking pictures), uh-oh. You like to point at things and have no problem getting your needs met!
You are very social and have a fun, silly personality. You have never had any stranger anxiety (except when Uncle Daron held you) and I never seen you fearful at all. You love animals and babies.
Eating... Still a sore subject. For about 2 weeks you seemed to actually eat like a normal 12 month old. Now you are back to strictly eating fruit. If you offer you ice cream or cake you will of course eat that too but most other food gets spit out.
Nursing... When I got back from my conference I my supply was a little low. You were ticked and didn't want to nurse. I decided to wean you completely. After about 24 hours of weaning you decided you wanted to nurse again so we started back. Now you are nursing 3-4 times a day and taking 8-10 ounces of whole milk or pumped breast milk throughout the day. I think the transition will be pretty easy with you although you really love bottles and refuse to drink out of most cups so that transition will likely be tricky!
Sleeping... You are starting to sleep "through the night". It is not uncommon for you to sleep from 7:30-4:30 or 5:00 but then you don't want to go back to sleep. Not so great. Hopefully you will stretch it out to 5:30 soon. Sometimes you get up and want to nurse around 1:00 or so. If you do this you will usually sleep until 6:30 or so. I am not sure which I prefer. You still get the plug for sleeping. We need to break the midnight feeds and plug this month. I am not looking forward to that.
Stats...
Length: 30 inches (80%)
Weight: 20 pounds (35%) - this may be a little inflated as it was taken after your two week eating "binge"-- I am curious to see how your most recent eating strike has affected this
Top 12 Favorite Things:
12. watermelon
11. beans
10. cake
9. babies
8. dogs
7. cats
6. dolls
5. blueberries
4. people/socializing
3. milk
2. extended family
1. Mommy, Daddy, Erik
You are a joy! We are so blessed to have you as part of our family!
We love you!
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