My little guy turned 13 months this week! Boy was 12 months a big month for development! As you already know, he now walks around everywhere and never crawls. But what you may not know is that he has had a breakthrough with sign language and is signing "more" all the time now. So before when I would have to guess if he was hungry, he now tells me by signing "more". The only issue is that he signs more no matter if he wants to eat, drink water or nurse...he has kind of generalized it to be his sign for "I want to consume". So now we are working on signing more and then either water, eat, or milk after so that he starts to differentiate between what he wants. Other new things are at night when he is ready for bed, he crawls into his bed all by himself and starts signing "more" to me to let me know he wants to nurse to sleep. He also knows how to not only crawl upstairs (or walk if he has support), but is able to go down small sets of stairs backwards on his own (he may very well be able to do lots of stairs but I'm not brave enough to let him try). We also started to let him practice eating with a little fork, which he seems to enjoy. Its a little easier for him to get food with it than it is with a spoon.
First time using a fork
He kisses when we ask him to now (as long is he's in the mood), which I think is the best thing ever. They are open mouthed kisses, but oh-so-sweet and wonderful!
One other thing is that he thinks its hilarious when I ask him what he is doing. He usually starts trying to run away, squealing in delight when I ask him what he is doing, or just giggles incessantly.
We are trying to make sure that chase games are initiate by a grown up so that he doesn't get in the habit of running off whenever he wants and thinks its a fun game, because that could be very dangerous! He certainly has a goofy, happy personality, and we love him dearly.
12 months old and climbing into everything
Crazy Baby
Laughing
12 Months Goofball
Here are some more videos of our 12 month baby boy!
All of his friends are growing up too! We met up with some of our old classmates from our Birth Roots Sprouts class at a fun place called Greenlight studio last week. It's a really cool place where you can get food and it has several rooms of things for babies to climb, explore, pretend, and play with/on. It was crazy to see that almost all our little sprouts are walking now, and it was fun to watch them interact in new ways.
Sweet Meo is 7 months old today! We had a big day too: started a new class at Birth Roots (Blossoming Newborns Seedlings) and went to his pediatricians office to get a couple of vaccinations. He weighs a whopping 19 pounds now! It's hard to believe how fast he grows. I'm so glad he is a happy and healthy boy.
7 months old today!
Oh, and our exciting developmental news is that yesterday he finally started rolling tummy to back! He has been able to roll back to belly like a champ since he was 3 months old, but apparently he had no motivation to roll back the other way until now. Last night he was rolling all over the place; he thought it was the best thing ever. In other developmental news, we have quite the little communicator. He has now said "mama", "dada", "ball", and "hello". He also just likes to babble lots and lots. He actually babbled the entire time I was trying to introduce is in our class today; it was pretty funny. One final thing to note is we have been doing a lot of sign language with him and we are pretty sure he signed "more" to us the other day while we were eating. Yay Mattimeo!
