1 Year old!!

Sleep:

He sleeps 12 hours at night from 7pm to 7 am For most of the month he was still taking 2 long naps averaging 1 and a half to 2 hours each. He is still taking two naps a day. I'll hang on to both as long as he'll let me :-).

Clothes:

He is in 12 months. Shoe size is 4 wide (we rarely wear them). Size 3 diapers. We'll get updated stats on Monday when he goes in for his 12 month check up/ shots. At nine months they were weight 21.12 pounds (60th percentile) height 29.6 inches (90th percentile). Head circumference 18 1/2 inches.

Food:

He eats four times a day. He's now on all table foods. We cut up all his food in to incredibly small soft portions. We changed to the plastic bibs with the pouch to catch all the food that he looses grip of on the way from the tray to his mouth. Prefers to feed himself rather than us feeding him. Two more teeth came in this month. He now has six teeth- top four front and bottom teeth. He enjoys putting the toothbrush in his mouth every morning.

Meal one-6 oz bottle after breakfast

Meal two- 6 oz sippy cup after snack

Meal three-6 oz sippy cup after lunch
Meal four- dinner followed by his nighttime 8 oz bottle

We are now on style #4 for sippy cups. We seem to be making more progress to weaning him off the bottle with the style I bought this morning (hope that doesn't jinx it writing it). Styles #1 and #2 were variations of the hard plastic tops and were a no go. Even the brightly colored decorations with his name did not tempt him. Third kind had a softer silicone top and worked for about a week but then I think as he settled in to that style, his enthusiasm was caving in the tops. We found a hard lid with just the silicone sippy. We are up to him taking liquid from the cup twice a day so it's definite progress.

Socially:

Very curious about objects but shy with new adults or those he didn't see regularly. He relaxes within about 10 minutes if the person persists. When it's new children, he's fine right off the bat. Words: dada and dadee, mumbles for an extended period of time as though he's holding his end of a conversation. Waves bye-bye

Developmentally:

Crawling up the stairs.

Any progress on getting down the stairs when he started going head first were promptly halted when he can go feet first, we'll help him further.

He will stand alone momentarily. Getting up and down with out holding anything for support

Rolls a ball (not necessarily back to us) when we roll it to him.

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. He moves fast!
Successfully mimics our facial expression, sticking tongue out, especially the super cheesy grin
Still puts most new things in the mouth, maybe a little less than he used to.

Will give something up when asked to with out tears (yeaaa). Starting to see some resistance, opinions are forming.
Constantly on the move, doesn't sit still long unless eating.
He crawls over to where we are standing and scale our calves putting his arms up to be picked up. REALLY hard to resist.
He can get in to the bathroom/ kitchen drawers. Thankfully he's too short to actually get his hand up in to the them. the lower cabinets are safety locked.

We are working on concepts like hot/ cold. Up/ down. Labeling things. Asking preferences.

Starting to see a little (not consistent by any means) progress with baby sign language. Will do more :-)

Matthew highlight:
First 3 steps

trunk-or treat at church

pumpkin patch

First birthday party!

(Not sure what's wrong with the formatting or picture placement, sometimes blogger just acts funky) I got it posted on the day, so I'm happy :-)