Well 1 more month and you, my little baby will be 1 year old. It's so hard to believe it's almost been a year since we met you for the first time. I took you to the doctor three times a week ago, but I really can't remember exactly how much you weighed or how long you are. I think you were 20 pounds. Hopefully it will be a few weeks before we go to the doctor for your 1 year well baby check up (meaning please stay healthy until then).
Teeth:
Eli you're finally getting more teeth. I can see the tips of your top front teeth just coming in. So I guess that means you have four teeth now. You used to let me brush your two teeth with no fussing, but lately it's been a struggle to get a tooth brush in your mouth- especially when I try to brush the two new teeth.
Feeding:
You love to feed yourself. We started letting you have a spoon this last month and you love it and understand how to make it work. Most of the time you eat what we eat just chopped up into small pieces. You still nurse/have a bottle 7 times most days. And I'm ready to give up the 11 PM or midnight feeding, but you're not showing any signs of giving it up any time soon. I think we're down to 9 bags of freezer milk, so we'll have to start supplementing with formula at daycare, but we made it a long time with only mamma milk at daycare. Your crazy feeding schedule looks like this:
7 AM - Mommy feeds you
8:30- Breakfast finger foods/cereal at daycare
10:30- bottle
11:30- lunch puree and finger foods
3:00- Snack of yougurt & bottle
5:30- Mommy feeds you
6:00- dinner (what ever we're eating chopped up)
7:30- bedtime snack of applesauce and rice cearal
8:00- Mommy feeds you
11:00- Night time nursing
You've also started drinking out of a sippy cup recently. After you take a drink you get a big goofy smile on your face and then you go "tsk, ahhhhh!" Like the drink was especially delicious which makes us all crack up, so you do it more.
We ordered a kids meal of mac and cheese for you and Adam to share at BWW on Wednesday night. You ate almost the whole bowl and we had to order chicken strips for Adam to eat. Most meals you out eat your brother.
One more funny food story. Yesterday we all went to Costco and they have double carts so you and Adam got to sit right next to each other. Costco on a Saturday is basically Food Sample City. And most of the samples we're going straight to you and Adam because you were both hungry after your nap. I grabbed a piece of turkey bacon and put a tiny sliver in your mouth and gave the rest to Adam. Adam was taking his time biting and chewing the bacon, so after you finished your bacon you reached over and pried the rest of the bacon right from Adam's hand and put it in your mouth.
Talking:
You talk all the time now and make noises when playing with trucks. When I ask you to wave bye-bye, you will wave and say bye-bye. You yell Ad-ah (Adam) and something that sounds a lot like Brockway. Most of the time I can tell you understand what we're trying to tell you. You like the sound of your voice when you yell and make noise, which makes church hard, but the nuk and cheerios help you stay quiet.
You love to stick your tongue out and make noise as you move it back and forth. I need to get a video of that little trick, because it is so cute when you do it.
Awesome Stuff You're Doing:
I can't believe how strong you are. If you want to you can almost pull your whole body off the floor using your arms. You can also push yourself up to standing from sitting in the middle of the floor. You stand unsupported for so long periods of time playing. You can take steps, but haven't figured out walking yet. But you can almost catch Adam crawling. This morning you were chasing your brother and the two of you were having so much fun playing.
I love that you still cuddle into me most of the time when I hold you. Even though you're mostly go-go-go when I hold you you still act like my little baby and snuggle into my neck. Changing your diaper and getting you dressed is nearly impossible. You don't have time to sit still and every time we put you on your back it's only a matter of seconds before you're on your belly crawling away from us.
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