Watch Me Grow!

48 Weeks

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51 Weeks

52 Weeks/12 Months/1 YEAR

I know older folks tell me all the time, but absolutely nothing can prepare a first time parent for how incredibly fast time FLIES when a child is born. Those first few days/weeks seemed to drag by when we were nursing around the clock and struggling with acid reflux, but looking back and looking at these pictures, my tiny baby is totally gone. He's a little toddler now. Walking and all. So. Very. Hard. To. Believe. So here is what my toddler can do:

• Toddle! HA! He started walking about 50 weeks. He got a lot of practice walking with the help of Jonathan and Alyson's fingers in Texas and pretty much took off once we got home. He was waiting for his daddy to see. He still falls on his bottom quite a bit and lets out a screech EVERY time this happens, but he gets better every day.
• He can stand from sitting in the middle of the floor with nothing to pull up on.
• He can squat down and pick up a toy and almost always stand back up.
• He says, "hey" and waves pretty much constantly at anything. Doesn't have to be a person.
• He put himself to sleep for both naps yesterday. No nursing before. This might break mommy's heart.
• He's still nursing in the morning when he first wakes up, after lunch, mid afternoon snack, and before bed. I've kinda decided I really don't care what everybody else says. Nursing is certainly not hurting him, so I'm not gonna force the issue. We will slowly back off as he's comfortable. Everyone else can just deal. Its not about them anyways.
• His signs have kinda exploded in the last couple days. He will sign all done and more pretty consistently and correctly.
• He will point. I asked him last night where his cup was...not really expecting a response from him. I'm looking all over the floor and then look up to find him pointing right at his cup!
• He's obsessed with the hall light. He looks at it and throws his hand up towards it in salute EVERY time we walk down the hall. If you ask him where the light is, you've got a 50/50 chance that he will look up.
• He's beginning to enjoy being read to more and more. Instead of nursing yesterday, I read him a story before naps and he actually sat still and listened. He really found Duck on a Bike funny. He also likes to look at books independently. I have all his board books in a cabinet in the entertainment center, and yesterday I found him very seriously studying Brown Bear Brown Bear.
• He shrieks, screams, whatever you want to call it quite frequently and in public. Its very embarrassing. I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. If I tell him to stop or whatever, he just screams louder. So I've decided to just ignore it and hope that the lack of feedback will cause the behavior to stop. But this appears to onlookers that I'm just letting him do what he wants. Oh well. I guess its not really about them again is it? Its called picking your battles. And this one isn't going to hurt him, so it'll be okay if we take the long route to learn not to scream in public.
• That's all I can think of at the moment, I always think of all these things I'm going to put in these posts when I'm with him. However, when I come to type the post, I can't remember them!