15 months old

Andy is 15 months old! This has been an amazing month! He seems to have really grown up this month.

- Andy got his first haircut (which really makes him look older)

- Andy talks on the phone to people (you still can’t understand what he says, but he jabbers on there all the time and loves hearing whoever is on the other end)

- He is in size 18 month pants and pj’s that are one piece, but size 24 month tops, and 2-piece pj’s. He doesn’t wear onesies anymore. He is a size 6 shoe all of the sudden – I think he wore is size 5 and a half for no more than 2 weeks!

- He is 31” tall and 26lbs

- He says “Mama”, “Papa”, “Daddy”, “Juice”, “Grandpa” (which sounds like “Gradka”, so it might be ‘Grandma’ too, but he follows Dad around the house and says it over and over, so I think it is meant as ‘Grandpa’), and that is pretty much it. He has said “Hi” and “Bye bye” before, but only once or twice, and not for a looooong time now.

- He crosses himself every time he hears us pray, and he LOVES to pray! It is really so cute!

- He sits behind me in the car, in Owen’s old black car seat.

- He has MAJOR temper tantrums when he doesn’t get him way, or when he is tired, and he rarely listens to us call his name or tell him ‘no’.

- He loves to open the kitchen cupboards, and has lately been getting into the drawers in the big room. He also LOVES keyboards and computer mouses. I’ll often come to my computer to find a bunch of weird windows open thanks to Andy.

- Andy still loves to play outside, and always follows Owen around.

- He can ride on little ride-on toys or bikes, and he can go forwards and backwards all by himself.

- He likes to play games and will initiate hide-and-go seek, tickle games, laughing, and copying games.

- Bath times are a lot shorter now as Andy splashes soooo badly, and he’ll often put his head under water until he wants to get out. It’s pretty exhausting!

- Andy loves to dress up in costumes just like his big brother.

- Also like his big brother, Andy has a horrid fake laugh. It is so loud and so fake, but sooo cute!

- He’ll take out his soother, and cluck his tongue to tell you he is hungry.

- He understands a lot – if you ask him to take out his sucker, give something to you, pick something up, put something down, close the door, open the door, sit on his bum, come here, go there, etc. And he knows what it means when I ask if he is hungry, tired, thirsty, and he is pretty good at letting me know the answer.

- Andy and Owen started a new daycare this month, and they both LOVE Joyce! Andy jumps right into her arm when I drop him off in the morning, and she has never really had a hard time with him. Although, when I go to pick him up he usually jumps into my arms and waves goodbye to Joyce. J

- We took down all the baby gates. Andy is great going up and down the stairs. And he is trying to walk down, as opposed to going down backwards. He still needs help with it though. And he goes up the stairs one foot on each stair

popsicles

Owen shared his popsicle with Andy tonight and he LOVED it! He would make awful faces but then always want more!

8.5 month update... kinda...

We all went to the Jordan’s house last night and Andy did great. He ate well, had fun chasing a remote control car around, went to sleep in the play pen well, and even transferred to the car and then to bed well when we went home. And then he slept until 5:30, ha d a bottle, went back to bed, and slept until 8am.

And now Andy’s schedule has changed once again! He is usually up at 7:30, goes for a nap at 10 and then again at 2pm, and usually one more around 6, with bedtime at 8:30 or 9pm. But I want to try and take out the 6pm nap and get him just to go to bed at 7pm. We’ll see how that goes over tonight.

But he is eating great – 3 bottles a day – first thing in the morning, after his afternoon nap, and right before bed. And he eats nice big meals (2-2.5 jars of food) at breakfast lunch and dinner with snacks throughout the day (toast, cheerio’s, yogurt, Mum Mum’s, etc.). And he loves to eat – he mow’s down his food!

And he is such a happy baby these days too. It has been wonderful to have such a happy boy lately, I hope this lasts a while.

New foods and new schedule - good, good, and more good!

Andy had a lot of new foods today – plain yogurt (he makes awful faces but always wants more), toast (with and without butter – he ate almost a whole piece twice today!), and veggie Mum Mum’s (the new foods in them are spinach and pumpkin).

Andy has had a good schedule for the last few days – I hope it lasts! What he has been doing is waking up at 7:30, having a bottle and then breakfast, then napping at 9:20-9:30 until 11 or so, having lunch, napping again at 1pm, having another bottle at 3, having a snack, and then dinner, either having a short nap before or after dinner, and then going to bed around 8:30. It’s a good schedule – I like it!

Good times and bad

Andy needed his soother and rocking twice again last night. I hate how he is now dependant on us rocking him back to sleep at night. Every since he got used to pulling himself to a standing position at night it is harder and harder (if not impossible) for me to just lie him back down. He just screams if I do that so then I have to pick him up and rock him.

Andy was happy in his highchair for 30-45 minutes eating Cherrios this afternoon while I cleaned the kitchen and made diner. It is the first time in a loooooooong time that he has been content, and restrained, for that long. It was nice. It felt normal! ☺

New foods!

New food: applesauce with apricots. Andy like it. He likes fruit more than veggies now. It was always the other way around. He doesn’t like peas anymore, and he doesn’t care for the meals with chicken or beef in them. He still loves corn, green beans, sweet potatoes, and turkey. But now he really likes applesauce, pears (not by themselves though), raspberries, blueberries, pineapple, and apricots as well!

Mmmmmmmm... pineapple!

Andy did have a new first today – pineapple pieces. He’s had pineapple in a fruit cereal before, but today I gave him small chunks to eat and he loved it! He didn’t have much, but he did down the small amount I gave him. He wants to eat our food, but I tried to give him 8-month old fruits and veggies, but the pieces are too big and they make him gag.

Yummmmmm!

Andy's favorite foods right now are sweet potatoes with turkey, creamed corn, and green beans. He isn't a big fruit fan.

Rice Cereal!

Yesterday Andy had his first taste of rice cereal! I think it was more fun for me, but Andy seemed to like it too! :)

I bought the Heinz Organic kind because it doesn't have any skim milk powder in it, as Andy is allergic to milk. 

Andy is over 5 months, and will be 6 months old the day after Christmas, so even though we are a little early in introducing food to him, Andy is close enough in age that we thought it was OK. I did check with Andy's pediatrician too, and he said it was OK. 

I was surprised how much of the cereal Andy actually ate - not just put in his mouth and spit right back out. He probably consumed more than a teaspoon, but less than a tablespoon. I know it isn't much, but think of how small his tummy is!