Or was determined to ruin and peel off his sticker:
Or had mouthful of animal crackers as bribery to stay in the seat long enough to snap some pics:
No change in teeth or clothing sizing. In fact, he weighs slightly less now than at his 12 month checkup, so he has definitely hit a plateau. He has became a little less clingy, which has been really nice...now it just goes in phases or waves, but he will do periods of independent play.
He has been such a healthy baby and in the last month has had 2 minor ear infections. He didn't seem bothered by them at all, so we were kinda shocked when the doctor told us. He took amoxicillin each time-- the first time he came down with a fever and rash, which may have been a separate virus, but also could have been a non-allergic reaction to the antibiotic.
He enjoyed his 2nd xmas, but still too young to have any concept of what was going on or that he got a bunch of new cool stuff!
Fine/Gross Motor Skills
- Loves lifting flaps in books
- Enjoys looking at books himself and will work really hard sometimes to try to turn pages 1 at a time instead of skipping through chunks of them. (This is just sometimes and some books that he will try for the 1 page only at a time...others he still clumps through himself)
- Waving Hi a little more consistently. (Sometimes says Hi along with it.)
- Walks with walker toys...no concept of steering and just rams into the walls
- This has taken him a while to master, but while standing (holding on to something) he can slowly bend down to pick up the object and return to standing. Before he would just plop to sit down to get the object.
- Very good memory of all the flaps in his books and which ways they open
- We do some hand motions with some of his books and he will pick up on it instantly and remember the page to do the action. For example, in a Sesame Street book it says something about Oscar's hammer going bam, bam, bam. Dustin would always slap his thigh to imitate the bang and now Lachs does it every time. For Wheels on the Bus, I hit the page when making the horn go beep beep beep and he'll do that.
- Before he started signing eat, he figured out to crawl over to his high chair and bang on it when ready for food
- Loves pointing at things and us naming them. Sometimes he will switch pointing between 2 objects like 10 times in a row while we just keep telling him the names.
- He is understanding how to be silly or what is silly. If I pretend to use his pacifier or sippy cup he knows that is funny.
Verbal/Communication
Skills
Since he was going to be home with us for almost 2 weeks over xmas, I wanted to really emphasize signing certain things and see if he could pick up on it. We so struggle with understanding what he wants sometimes, so I was hoping this would help him communicate some with us. I was shocked at how fast he picked this up (because his daycare teacher does not do this with them)! His most frequent is "All Done." The worst is when he uses it in instances like while in the carseat and I can't react to it!Signs:
- All done
- More
- Eat
- Hi/Bye (waves)
- Reaches both arms up to be held
- Can sometimes point to the room or object he wants when he gets flustered and I tell him to show me what he wants. Or I will point to do different things and ask him which one he wants to do...and he'll point at one.
Words he says and we think knows meaning:
- Hi
- Dada
- Uh Oh (most frequently said word BY FAR)
- Duck and Quack, Quack
Words/Phrases he understands (I'm sure there is more, but am blanking out on this):
- Bring it to mommy/daddy or Come to mommy/daddy
- Go get daddy-- he will then just come full body at Dustin to wrestle with him
- His name (he has known this for a while)
- No (understands but only follows it 5% of the time)
- Where's Lachlan-- he knows that will start a game of peekaboo and will go hide or cover eyes
Eating
We are done with the formula and done with bottles! He eats really all of the school food that is provided- the only thing they don't give him are oranges cause we think they may give him diaper rashes. At home, I've been trying to make things that he can eat with us, but that just depends on how busy I am. Unfortunately I try to feed him healthy most times, but he does get the occasional McDonald's and Pizza Hut :) He signs "all done" when he is finished eating, but that means we have a 3 second window to react. He will start picking up his food and dropping it on the floor if we leave him there too much longer!
Sleep
Sleeping 10.5-11 hours each night. Naps have got better at daycare- they have started doing just one nap and he sleeps for about 1.5 hours, so that is much better. Interestingly enough, he sleeps on the cot and has done so much better than in his crib. They said he would just laugh at him and bang around and play when they try to put him in the crib...or sometimes scream/cry. They put him on this cot that is about 2 inches off the floor and he just lays right down, does not move, does not try to get off of there. His teacher says that within minutes he is out and has a pile of drool :)) Unfortunately because he only gets this 1 nap, he usually sleeps on the car ride home and we have to wake him up to eat dinner and he is pretty crabby, so then put him to sleep pretty early. I get to see him for less than an hour on weeknights usually. On the weekends, we still do the 2 naps, so he gets a good 3+ hour of naps in.
Favorite Things
- Books with flaps...loves, loves, loves
- Using any of his toys with wheels that enable him to walk or pushing around on his hands/knees
- Crawling into a closet, pantry, bathroom, etc and closes the door to play peek-a-boo....definitely not scared at all if the room is pitch black and he will wait pretty long for us calling out to him before he'll open the door to show himself.
- Covering his eyes while in the high chair to play peek-a-boo...always waits until they are super messy to do this
- Peeing on the bath towel every single time we take him out of the tub...just started this up
- Stuffed animals that talk/sing/move
- My old rocking chair and Sesame Street table
- Anything he can ride-- Cozy Coupe and Pillow Racer (we have had to hide these cause he just loves them so much and only wants us to push him on these!)
Typical Day at 13 months:
- 6:45-7:15- Wake up and get dressed and in the car if weekday. On weekend, will usually let him in the crib for 15-20 minutes and then get him out to play. It was very easy to eliminate this bottle-- I'll sometimes give him a sippy of milk or juice.
- 8:30- Breakfast (Prune Juice or 5oz milk plus school breakfast.)
- 9:30- Nap if at home (usually 1.5 hours)
- 11:30- Lunch and 5 oz milk in sippy cup (Eats school lunch)
- 12:00- Nap if at school (usually 1.5 hours)
- 1:30- Nap if at home (usually 1.5 hours)
- Afternoon Snack with 5 oz milk
- 5:30-6 Sleeps on car ride home from daycare
- 6:00- Dinner and water in sippy
- 6:45- Bath every 2-3 nights (We have tried to move this up a tad earlier due to him sleeping so late)
- 7:00- Read him a few books in the rocking chair; Offer some water in a sippy
