Month Fourteen

Liam,

You are now fourteen months old!

This month has been so much fun too! You're talking a lot more and you are using more hand gestures to express yourself. My favorite is if you want to be picked up you’ll raise your hands in front of you and slouch your shoulders and say “uh uh uh”. It’s almost the same kind of gesture you would do when saying “uhh-o”. And speaking of “uhh-o”, it is your new favorite word. You say it all the time and even use it in context! It’s so cute!! You’ll drop something and look down at it and say “uhh-o”. I've tried to get it on video but so far have been unsuccessful. You do a lot of pointing too and if we don’t listen you’ll come over and grab our hand or leg and direct us to where you want to go. Lately you've wanted to go outside and will point at the door or even pull us to the door so we can open it for you.

 Other new words you've said this month are banana, hi, and hot. When you see a banana you’ll point at it and say “nana”. You know hot really well too. If the oven is on you’ll point and say hot. If we’re holding you by the stove you point and say hot. My favorite though is if your food is too hot you’ll say hot and blow on your food. Or you’ll look at us and say hot and want us to blow on your food. It is so cute watching you blow on your own food!

You love to bring us stuff especially your books. You love when we read them to you. If we’re sitting on the floor you’ll hand us the book and then turn around and back yourself into our laps. I laugh every time! Then you’ll point at the book and help turn the pages as we read it. You've really taken an interest in books especially the ones that make noise or have different textures in them. Right now you’re favorite book is “Old MacDonald had a farm”. All daddy has to do is start singing it and you’ll go grab the book. You love to count all the different animals and feel the different textures! We've also caught you sitting on the kitchen floor reading the book to yourself. You were pointing at things on the pages and talking to yourself as you were turning the pages. It was so cute! Your daddy and I were peeking over the island watching you and laughing to ourselves.

You love to play with your keyboard too. When you want it turned on you’ll drag it over to us and point at it until we turn it on. Once it’s turned on you’ll hit the demo key immediately and start dancing! It’s not just little hand movements either; it’s full on twirling, bouncing up and down, and some hand pumping!! This I did get on video!

You've taken some interest in the TV but it’s only for short periods of time and then you’re ready for something else. Yesterday we rented “Brave” and you were really intrigued with it but for only the first thirty minutes! After that you were ready to play! But when you were interested you were watching it non-stop smiling at it and even clapping with it. You’d look at daddy or me and say something and then turn and watch it again. We couldn't believe it! You’d never really wanted to watch anything before and now you were snuggling with us on the couch watching this movie with us.

You are doing a great with everything else. You have no problem taking one nap a day and sometimes on the weekend no nap depending how busy we are. You’re sleeping through the night still but do have an occasional night or two where you’ll get up in the middle of the night and will want a bottle. You're pretty much like clockwork when you want to go to bed and when you get up in the morning. Right now you seem to get tired around 7/7:30 pm so we try to put you down close to that and then you've been waking up around 6:30/7 am with the occasional 6 am. On the weekends sometimes we luck out and you’ll sleep in until 8 am. You are growing like a weed and are eating more and more. From what I can tell you’re not too picky either so you’ll normally eat whatever we put in front of you. Right now you weigh 22 lbs but you have your fifteen month checkup the beginning of next month so we’ll be able to see exactly where you’re at.

Happy fourteen month birthday sweet little boy! This month has been a blast and can’t wait for what else is in store.

Love,
Momma