Todd the Toddler’s 13th Month

Almost 13 months old – September 14, 2015

THIRTEENTH MONTH
AUGUST 21 – SEPTEMBER 21 (2015)

THIRTEENTH MONTH “FIRSTS”

• 1st birthday! (8/21)
• 1st time clapping hands together (8/26)
• 1st time saying “car” (8/26)
• 1st time stepping up a curb (legs only) (8/30)
• 1st time stepping down a curb (legs only) (9/2)
• 1st “play date” (9/8)
• 1st birthday party (9/13)
• 1st & 2nd full days with Eric while I worked (9/19 & 9/20)

1st birthday party – September 13, 2015

WORDS

• car (sounds like “gah”)
• he says car for real cars, toy cars, cars in books and on TV
• ball (sounds like “bah”)
• he says ball for real balls, balls in books and on TV

1st full day with dada – September 19, 2015

OTHER SPEECH/LANGUAGE

• new sounds:  “um bucka bucka”/”a buckum buckum”
• he makes a “nam” sound when it’s time to eat
• he directly addressed one of the kids (“Emil”) we’d just met at the park by name (8/30)
• he might have said his name (9/5)
• he might have said “I love you” (he said to both Eric & I separately)
• he knows what “pillow blanket” means and will look for it (same goes for balls)

FOLLOWING COMMANDS

• “clap your hands” (no gestural cues) (9/1)
• “stomp your feet” (9/2)
• “high five” (9/3)
• “brush my hair” (9/7)
• “take your bib off” (he also does on his own) (9/10)
• “skinny cat” (which means raise arms to help having shirt removed)
• “throw it” (either a ball or something “yucky” that he picks up outside)
• “down dog” (9/15)
• “where’s your ball/pillow blanket?” (he’ll go looking)

MISC MOTOR

• he walked backward repeatedly with his Little Tikes car (8/25)
• he stepped over the couch armrest (from the coffee table) using just his legs (8/31)
• he steps up & down curbs (with & without help)
• sitting on his Little Tikes car, he “drove” it forward with feet by leaning way forward (9/10)
• he climbed into a kitchen cupboard (9/16)
• possible right hand dominance (i.e. when eating)
• he started doing “down dog” yoga pose before I realized that’s what he was doing (he sees me doing it regularly)
• he doesn’t just walk, he runs!
• he trips less frequently
• he rarely hits his head when falling backward because his abdominal strength is so good

Climbing into a cupboard – September 16, 2015

FUN TIMES AT HOME

• “dancing”
• making us laugh doing his funny “shaky thing”
• throwing/bouncing balls
• making “baskets” in the basketball hoop & Pack ‘n Play
• driving his little cars across the floor (or walls)
• turning pages of books
• he laughs hysterically while chasing & being chased, then falls into pillows
• I cut 1 panel out of a Pack ‘n Play to make him a “fort”
• putting blocks in container & trying to close lid (9/8)
• play date with Piper (9/8)
• watching Sesame Street, Mister Rogers
• he gets very interested in music documentaries (stops to listen and/or dance)
• 1st birthday party (9/13)

HE LOVES GOING OUTSIDE!

• outdoor “roaming” the yard
• running down the sidewalk (9/9)
• visiting & petting the neighbor’s dogs
• 1st mud puddle (9/17)
• rides in the stroller (walking, rollerblading)
• hot tub “swim”
• sitting on the skateboard for rides with Eric

Petting the neighbor’s dogs – September 9, 2015

GOING PLACES

• playing at Imagine Children’s Museum for his birthday (8/21)
• looking at the animals at Petco (9/2)
• hiking (with Ergo carrier) at the Pilchuck Tree Farm (9/5)
• dining at The Shire Cafe (9/5)
• “Touch A Truck” (9/12)
• we started Kindermusik (9/15)
• he loves shopping cart rides at stores

Touch A Truck – September 12, 2015

HEALTH

• he had a runny nose and sneezing that lasted ~2 days (8/24-25)
• 12 month pediatrician visit (8/25)
• Weight = 19 lbs at 12 months
• he got his MMR & Hep A vaccines, but I declined the chickenpox vaccine (9/2)

New clothes from Todd’s Great Aunt – August 22, 2015

ORAL HAPPENINGS

• he kept handing his spoon back to me after taking bites (instead of resisting letting go like usual) (8/23)
• he started gnawing on crib rails (so I covered them!)
• he has a strong tendency for “chewing” (i.e. he’s destructive to board books)
• we try to brush his teeth daily but it can be almost impossible!

BBQ tempeh – August 30, 2015

RANDOM STUFF

• he put his pillow blanket in the kitchen drawer, then closed the drawer (and repeated it) (9/1)
• he sometimes claps for himself (9/4)
• he tried to put the dish towel back on fridge, and tried to pull open fridge door (9/14)
• he tries to put rose petals back, after he pulls them off

Hiking at the Pilchuck Tree Farm – September 5, 2015

BEING ONE

• he protests when he can’t have something
• increasingly distracted sitting in my glider chair in the morning and before naps
• he resists being picked up by raising arms and arching head and body waaaay back

He carried that step stool up there all by himself – September 17, 2015

FORMULA & BOTTLE WEANING

• started formula weaning (8/27)
• started using Green Sprouts Glass Sip ‘n Straw Cup instead of bottles (8/31)

• initially his organic soy formula was mixed with a little hemp milk (3:1 ratio)
• homemade cashew rice milk was added in (9/2)
• I started making cashew oat milk instead of cashew rice milk
• at month’s end he gets a blend of (equal parts):  formula, hemp milk, cashew oat milk and soy milk
• at month’s end we’re half way through formula can #71
• he had ~2.5 cans of formula this month which is half as much as last month

Green Sprouts sippy & “pillow blanket” & Seahawks fuzzy slippers – September 14, 2015

SLEEP

• best sleep month to date!
• he woke up at night only twice (one was a “rough” night because he stayed awake/restless from 1:30 – 3:30 AM)
• 1x he woke up at 4:30 AM so I had him sleep in my bed with me for another hour before we got up
• fell asleep on floor 45 min before bed (9/9)
• shortest nap:  30 minutes
• longest nap:  2.75 hours
• average nap:  1.75 hours
• wears size 18 month sleepers

Asleep on the floor – September 9, 2015

POTTY TALK

• more solid food = more poop!
• he poops about twice per day
• 33 poops were done on the toilet
• 32 poops were “misses”
• while sitting on the toilet, he reaches as far down into the toilet as he can
• increasingly resists staying on the toilet seat (twists to get off)

Outside roaming – September 8, 2015

All for now!