14 months old
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| Cool toddler |
Height- not sure
Weight- not sure
Diapers- Size 4 diapers during the day, Size 5 nighttime diapers
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| Retrieving Izzy's stomp rockets in MI |
Milestones- Not only is Wes walking, but he has started to try to run for a few steps when he really wants to get from point A to point B (point B mostly being Mommy's arms these days)! He loves climbing up the stairs when allowed (we have now installed the baby gate which makes him very sad) and he loves standing on the couch watching what goes on outside (he especially loves watching squirrels). He can't get up on the couch just yet, but that may happen sooner than later. He plays peek-a-boo with his hands covering his eyes at least daily with us and thinks that it is HILARIOUS.
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| Playing peek-a-boo at a restaurant with his mat |
He is now copying Izzy when she looks to be doing something fun. The other day she was jumping on packing bubbles to make them pop and he stood on another sheet of bubbles and did his best impression of jumping (moving up and down) with a huge smile on his face.
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| Sprinkler fun |
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| Enjoying the water table |
Finally, Wes is starting to actually build things instead of just knocking things down. I think that he has been doing it a lot at daycare, but not so much at home.
Language- Words so far- "dah" for dog, "uh oh" when he drops something, "ma ma" for milk, and "ah da" for all done. His favorite thing to say in the car is "va va" which has no meaning as far as I can tell, but he loves when I repeat it back to him. He shakes his head for "no" and cries/pouts when Izzy takes a toy from his hand or something that he shouldn't be playing with is taken from him by an adult. Mostly though he just points and grunts to let us know what he wants.
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| With every diaper change in his room he points to the shelf above and grunts until we give him the dinosaurs in the picture. He knows that there are three and will point and grunt until he gets all of them! Then of course will drop them one by one off the changing table saying "uh oh." |
Favorite Toy- Wes is obsessed with his panda that my parents got him right after he was born. He sleeps with it every night and loves to give it hugs. He is also a big fan of the house that Izzy loved at this age.
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| Playing with the house while sort-of watching Zootopia |
Favorite Book- The "Dog" book that Izzy destroyed. He will sit on the floor and turn the pages just like Izzy did all by himself. He is also obsessed with the "Chugga Chugga Choo Choo" book. Turns out he is really interested in trains!
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| "Reading" Izzy's book on the planets |
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| Watching the train arrive at the park |
Sleep- Wes is a great sleeper from about 7:30pm to 7 or 8am. He is generally down to one long nap at daycare and two naps on the weekend when home.
Clothes- 18 month clothing and on some of the shirts, his belly hangs out a little. I think it's time to move into 2t clothing.
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| Bright white belly! |
Eating- Like what happened with Izzy right after she turned a year old, Wes has started to not eat things if he doesn't want to (and vigorously shake his head "no"). He loves fruit but he started to not eat certain veggies and depending on the day, meat. We'll keep pushing them! Wes has also become interested in using a fork/spoon so we will place the food on the utensil for him and he finishes the job by putting it in his mouth.
Teeth- No new teeth this past month.
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| Wes' new sweatshirt from his grandmother is awesome |
Illness- It wouldn't be a trip to MI without Wes getting sick. This time it was pink eye. Otherwise this month he had a cold and his first puking incident. Thankfully his puking incident only happened twice and it was after he went to bed so other than having to give him a quick bath and change his sheets, he was tired and slept the rest of the night.
Misc- Wes finally got his first haircut. He hated the entire 4 minutes and cried and held onto me the entire time. I was so impressed with the woman that cut his hair and being able to do it while he was so unhappy.
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| Crying while getting a trim |
Wes loves petting Buster (more like a patting of his fur)....Buster has been very good in tolerating it (especially if I am also petting him at the same time).
This month was also the first time that Wes was able to actively participate in picking apples off trees....I think that he liked eating them a bit more though.
