(Most toys these days get pushed around like they are a car, his plate is no exception)Sleep:
He sleeps 12 hours at night from 7pm to 7 am He has arrived at 2 long naps averaging 1 and a half to 2 hours each. Just in the last week I think he's started having sad baby dreams where he cries in his sleep. Mommy no like :-( Thankfully it's for less than a minute and he calms himself down without waking up, but... mommy still no like :-( He also not only doesn't require any rocking, will protest if we try. He gets himself down much quicker.
(This is his 'my the monkey's hair is tasty' pose)Clothes: (no changes)
His pants are 6-9 months and his shirts and onesies are 12 months. Shoe size is 4. He does have sweet little pudgy feet so he needs wide width. Size 3 diapers. He's weighs 21.12 pounds which is in the 60th percentile and his height is 29.6 inches which is in the 90th percentile. His head circumference is 18 1/2 inches.
(This is his 'my the monkey's arm is tasty' pose)Food:
He eats four times a day. He's eating one less meal a day going 4 hours in between meals due to to the introduction of some table foods. His little system is breaking down some age appropriate foods cut in to incredibly small soft portions. On the 25th he had the least of mommy milk so that's the other reason he's dropped a bottle, that formula sure does fill him up.
Meal one- 5-6 oz bottle with rice cereal and fruit.
Meal two-veggies and 5-6 oz bottle.
Meal three- stage 3 dinner (chicken, meat or turkey) 6 oz bottle.
Meal four- nighttime 5-6 oz bottle
He has four teeth as of the 28th. He added his top two front teeth.
(This is his 'my the monkey's leg is tasty' pose)Socially:
Very curious about everything. He is understanding more quickly with our set 'no-no's. What's working for him is shaking our head, saying no no no and moving him back from the nono. Last month it was taking 7 times for it to stick. Now it's maybe once a couple times a day. (yeaaaa) He giggles at games at exaggerated expressions and funny noises and sounds. He also likes when daddy 'gets some baby neck' He's pretty cautious, still and quiet around new people. We had quite a few visits from older kids this last month with the Atchison twins and cousins as well as the England and Wilson children who are so kind and gentle with 'baby Matthew'. Matthew watches their every move. It's sooo sweet. Billy and I have both heard him say dada which was his first word on the 5th . When I was out of the house, Billy heard mama. I hear ni ni pretty frequently (night night). Babbles when he wants our attention and will get louder until we respond to him. He also started the transition out of the infant class at church. Another sign of growing up :-)
('You're going to need to much faster than that mommy' pose)
Developmentally:
REALLY enjoys crawling up the stairs still, makes it in half the time.
He still has no idea how to climb down the stairs, it's pretty funny and scary at the same time.
He started clapping on his own and he'll high five me
Cruises the furniture pretty fast independently.
Big boy crawls anywhere he wants to go. Pretty much permanent red knees these days
Tries to mimic our facial expression, sticking tongue out, etc...
Everything goes in the mouth
'Happy spitter' phase is now behind us :-))
He smiles and sits still for any finger play song game like patty cake, twinkle little star, abc's, Jesus Love Me, Wise Man, Father Abraham, Lord's Army, pretty much any song sung to him.
Will stand very briefly on his own with out holding on to anything.
There is no doubt when he wants to be picked up now as he will crawl over to where we are standing and scale our calves.
He can get in to the cabinets on his own so we found out to our shock on the 20th. We installed cabinet locks which are only minimally slowing him down.
Matthew highlight:
Baby Dedication
(Again with the pushing the plate around, this time right side up)
Mommy/ Daddy Highlights:
Mommy went to Women of Faith
Jill's baby shower, Michael's birthday party
Daddy helped us and it took less than a minute to get both poses :-)
In September we are looking forward to Matthew's first haircut among other things :-)
1 comment:
love reading more about what mr. matthew is up to!
him and corbin are about the exact same size!
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