Eating: He takes 4 6oz bottles throughout the day. Usually around breakfast, lunch, dinner, and one before bed. He still does great with them and readily feeds himself everytime. I love at bedtime, when I'm rocking him and he's eating his bottle, he'll turn into me and snuggle up close. He'll start out using both hands, but then turn into me and use my chest to help hold up the bottle. Simply precious. We've gotten a little braver with all the food choices and are trying to let him try more table foods. I have to admit, though, I'm often too lazy and just give him some baby food. He likes it and always eats every bit of it. He has tried chicken, bread, BBQ pork, mac & cheese, corn, sour cream chicken & rice, blueberry muffin and of course cake! I'm sure there's other stuff, I just can't think of it all!
Sleeping: Still does great at night. Sleeps for about 12 hours every night and on normal days when we're at home, he starts winding down about 7. I can almost tell time by him, because he starts getting super clingy and fussy. I am thankful that he is a pretty flexible little guy and will go with the flow when we've been out a little later than normal. He's doing better about nap time for us. At least, he'll pretty consistently lay down in his rocker and nap. This is much improved from me having to hold him, if I was home. He usually gets about 1 3o minute nap and another longer nap in the afternoon.
Other Cool Stuff: We are trying to teach him "no". He knows what "no" means, but he doesn't always respond. Our biggest thing has been him pulling up on our entertainment center and playing with all the stuff up there. I have been very diligent about telling him no, swatting his hand, and then taking him away from the tv. We do this over and over and over. But, I can finally start to tell a difference. He still goes for the tv, but not nearly as often. And most of the time he will stop when I say "no" and "sit down".
He's a super fast crawler and will furniture surf with the best of them, but so far no attempts at taking steps on his own. He'll hold our finger and take a few steps, much less wobbly than before, but as soon as we let go he plops down. He does use his little dinosaur walker to practice those walking skills and he is so proud. He always smiles so big! He's also getting better at balancing when up on both knees.
He's still babbling like crazy and practicing all the different sounds he can make. A new one is for him to just open his mouth and start screaming. He's not upset. Just yelling. He says things like "dadada" and "mamama" and "du" and "nenene" but I'm not convinced anything is purposeful yet. He's also started pointing and grunting when he wants something. Like if he wants more cheerios or puffs, he'll point at the jar and start grunting. The speech therapist in me is trying to not let him do that, I want him to "use his words", but I also know it'll come.
He does open mouth kisses, which are disgustingly precious. Melt my heart. He also still waves and claps. We're trying to get him to be better about waving when we say wave, but most of the time he waves after the person has walked away or turned around. He'll also just start waving at random people and look at us funny when they don't get excited and start waving back.
12 Month Check Up: We have a healthy 12 month old! I will never take that for granted. We are truly blessed. We saw the NP that we've seen the last 2 times with his ear infections and I really like her. She checked his ears again and said they were all cleared up! I am so thankful! They had to prick his finger to check his iron level and blood count, both of which came back normal. He didn't even flinch when she pricked the finger and no fussing when she had to keep squeezing it to get the blood into the little tube. I barely had to hold his other arm out of the way! But, come time for her to check his boy parts, he started screaming. Go figure. He had to have 2 shots and after a quick time of screaming and snubbing, he recovered and all was well in Cooper world.
Stats:
Height: 31 inches & 80th percentile
Weight: 22 pounds and 7 ounces & 50th percentile
Head: 18 inches & 50th percentile
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