14 Months

14 Months. I feel like his first year flew by and then these past two months have moved much slower. I’m not complaining. I always want time to slow down for us.

 

We still have 8 teeth, although I have to believe that there are more trying to work their way through some poor baby gums. Fingers and entire fists are in his mouth CONSTANTLY! Now if only he’d let me take a look inside. It seems the over the top tantrums have subsided for now, I honestly can’t remember the last time he threw himself to the floor. But this kid is now becoming quite possessive, not like I can blame him. Every time he has something in his hands and anyone (Eric, me or Raegan) comes near him he sort of hugs it in to his chest and turns away. I do have to say at this stage half of those times we do take it away from him, but only because it’ll be something like an open marker or one of Raegan’s Shopkins. But I have been trying to not be so quick to grab stuff (aside from open markers, because, well, it’s an open marker!). Clearly we must do it a lot.

 

 

He says Hi all the time and to every passing stranger in the stores or on our walks. He says Keagan and his version or more. We are working on up, but for the moment he literally just opens his mouth open to attempt to say the “U” but no noise comes out. So he’s just standing there, mouth wide open, no sound coming out and holding his arms straight up. It’s actually pretty funny. He knows the right times to sign More and Thank You. He learned how to lean in to give a kiss. Every night now after reading his two favorite books, Doggies and Panda in the Park, he never wants to snuggle, just hugs his lion, points to his crib, leans in for a good open mouth kiss and wants to be laid down.

 

 

Speaking of books, this mouth’s favorite activity has been to climb up and down from his glider and take the books on and off his red side table. He’ll open a page or two and then put that book down and get another one. This can go on for hours.
 

 

Weston still continues to love music and at the first sounds of it stops everything he is doing so he can start dancing. He has also become obsessed with brushing his teeth and throws a tantrum when we have to pull him away from the sick. This is actually fairly helpful on the big sissy front, since, for the moment, she is all about brushing her teeth with baby brother. Typically she is the queen of procrastination when it comes to teeth brushing
 

 

Oh and how could I forget one of the biggest developmental milestones. We have a walker! Just in the past week he has really started taking more steps on his own, rather than the 2-3 he was doing before. If you can get him focused on something or excited about something he’ll actually walk pretty far on his own (15 steps or so). He’s actually not even all the wobbly when walking, he just has to trust himself more. But I do think we can officially call it walking.
 

 

His sleeping has gotten pretty consistent. For the most part, mostly because daycare was pushing it in the new room, he’s down to one nap a day and the amazing part is that now his nap and Raegan’s nap overlap by a good hour and a half. Hooray for some adult time on the weekends. We normally put him to bed around 7 and he sleeps to 5:30 or so. Summer has officially kicked off for Eric and I’m hoping since we don’t have to wake the kids ups so early now that both will start to sleep in a bit later than 5:30. Here’s to hoping

All in all our little blondie is still such a light in our lives. We love you boo-boos! Happy 14 months