Todd the Toddler’s 14th Month

Almost 14 months old – October 16, 2015

FOURTEENTH MONTH
SEPTEMBER 21 – OCTOBER 21 (2015)

BEING ONE

• excitedly runs in place screaming (9/26)
• comes to my lap to sit (10/8)
• if I don’t read the “right” book, he’ll push it aside and reach for a different one

SO HELPFUL!

• tries to put shoe on my foot (9/25)
• tries to put glasses on my face (9/25)
• feeds me food
• loads utensils in dishwasher tray (10/17)
• pulls the handle on the salad spinner (10/19)

EXPLORING

• racing to the fridge when we start to open it, flings door wide open, and grabs things
• climbed to 2nd shelf of pantry, grabbing for items (10/12)

He needed some mustard powder – October 12, 2015

SPORTS

• kicks balls (right foot) (9/26)
• tries to put football in “tee” (i.e. plastic ring) (9/26)
• doing the “skeleton” on the skateboard (9/26)
• playing with skateboard in the house (climb on/off, stand up and walk on it, roll it on floor)
• rollerblade with stroller on the Centennial trail (10/3)
• he let me put his helmet on if I did it very slowly (10/14)

Skateboarding – October 11, 2015

AT THE PARK

• I started taking Todd to play at parks regularly this month
• he loves going on the slides with me
• he liked walking on the suspension bridge
• hanging from rope at Lake Goodwin park (10/5)
• he decided he loves swinging now (before he didn’t like it) (10/16)
• I give him Happy Baby Puffs at the park to keep him from putting other things in his mouth
• while playing at the park next to where Kindermusik is held, he went over to the door and then pushed me to communicate that he wanted to go in (10/14)

Jennings Park – September 29, 2015

MUSIC

• every Tuesday we go to Kindermusik
• he waved to another mom at Kindermusik (10/13)
• he loves playing the kazoo (10/12)
• he dances to music he likes

ANIMALS

• he kisses cats in books
• he kisses a picture of our old cat, Stuart
• he loves to watch the squirrels outside
• he loves dogs

Visiting the neighbor’s dog – September 23, 2015

OTHER OUTINGS

• he loves shopping cart rides, and insists on facing forward
• when we go to the library he gets to roam around
• when we get ready to go out, he practically jumps into my arms at the garage door
• out to eat: Casa Tequila (9/27), Grilla Bites (10/4)

Playing basketball – September 24, 2015

INSIDE PLAY

• he loves splashing really hard in the bathtub
• he zooms his cars down the toy garage ramp
• he likes to climb up on my glider chair and look at books
• he rolls around in the blankets on the floor
• he puts things into other things (i.e dominos in a container)
• he kept putting his pillow blanket on top of his head (10/2)

NEW WORDS & SOUNDS

• bird (9/26)
• baby (he said after Elmo said it on Sesame Street) (9/28)
• bus (9/29)
• grandma, “anga” (9/30)
• shoe (10/1)
• bee (10/2)
• grandma, “gamma” (10/6)
• boat (10/7)
• “a raw” (10/11)
• he dramatically kept making a hard “C” sound (10/13)
• he tried to “moo” (10/14)
• honk (he said after I read that word in a book) (10/16)
• tries to make the “baa” sound for sheep (10/19)
• bear (10/19)

SIGNS & OTHER COMMUNICATION

• waving to Eric (9/24)
• he does “frog” when he sees it in his book (sticking out his tongue and pulling it back in) (9/24)
• he does “butterfly” when he sees it in his book (opening and closing hand like the wings flapping) (9/28)
• he pushes me when he wants food/formula milk
• he pushed me to tell me to keep playing with him (10/15)

FAMILY

• visit from my mom (9/30 – 10/7)
• he loves his Grandma and he lets her comfort him
• spending days with Eric while I’m at work

Morning snuggles with his Grandma – October 5, 2015

MISC NOTES

• he had a mild cold/runny nose (10/2)

Good Morning! – October 2, 2015

FOOD NOTES & ORAL HAPPENINGS

• he likes to put pancake pieces to his smoothie (“dippers”)
• I started adding 1/2 t ground flax in his smoothies
• he started taking Dr Fuhrman’s Pixie Vites multivitamin
• he eats/plays with a dry “cereal snack” in the morning (unsweetened Os & brown rice puffs)
• he loves to eat whole apples while grocery shopping (started 9/24)
• he loves garbanzo beans and strawberries
• new food:  date (10/12)

Mmm, Honeycrisp apple – September 24, 2015

OTHER ORAL HAPPENINGS

• he blew air into smoothie pack after I did (9/26)
• 4th tooth spotted! (top right 1st molar, 10/20)

Centennial Trail Parking Lot – October 3, 2015

FORMULA WEANING

• at month’s end, we’re 3/4 of the way through formula can #72 which means he only went through a little more than 1 can this month
• in his sippy cups, he drinks equal parts formula, soy milk, hemp milk, and homemade cashew oat milk
• he drank from his sippy cup about ~5x per day (minimum 4)

Daytime snuggles are so nice – September 27, 2015

SLEEP

• he only woke up at night 3x
• when he woke up at night, he got back to sleep within 15-45 minutes
• he averaged 9.78 hours of sleep per night
• before bed he stays awake longer while rocking in my chair
• he likes to have several books read to him, and he reaches for the books he wants (upon waking up in the morning, before his swing naps and at bedtime)
• he’s always asleep when I put him in his crib at night
• daytime swing naps averaged 1.84 hours

Ready for bed – September 22, 2015

POTTY TALK

• 48 poops were done in the toilet
• 39 poops were “misses” (10 of those times, he did more poop in the toilet as soon as we got him there)
• he refused to stay on toilet even though it was clear he had to poop, then pooped in underwear (9/28)
• 1st poopy diaper away from home (10/4)
• likes to shred toilet paper while sitting on toilet
• he follows direction to put toilet paper shreds in the toilet (10/15)

Little ball player – October 1, 2015

Well, that’s a wrap!