I enjoyed taking my 14 month pictures by the tree. Mommy asked me to sit by the tree please so she could take my picture and I gladly went right over to the tree & sat down. This was so much fun!
Happy Birthday 14 Months! Why not touch the bulb?
14 Months:
- Loves to dance with you. Bounces and sings in your arms to the music. When he hears music he will start to bounce or pat hand on his leg (keeping the beat) or run up to Mommy so she will lift him to dance.
- Running everywhere (takes spills because gets going to fast at first then mastered it)
- Loves crackers. Asks for them at meal time
- Loves walking sadie after our walks or runs
- Trip to Florida - started waking up at 4-4:30 am, napped on the boat like a champ
- Stomach Bug - 1st time to really vomit for about 10-12 hours. So sad!!
- Vomit after drinking milk - definitely unable to drink milk
- Lays on stomach and kicks feet
- Love to come up, turn around and sit in your lap
- Loves to feed people & dogs (sharing)
- Says Sadie Sue
- Walks up & down stairs with a little help
- Daring in swim lessons, wants to swim unassisted, jumps off stair to swim to you & falls off the side of the pool
- Discovered he can lift one foot of the floor & stomp foot while in the bathtub
- Twirls himself in a circle to make himself dizzy
- Loves the Mommy tickle game & fly like an airplane
- Says hi & waves for both hi & bye
- Means mama & dada when he says it
- Saying so many words - water, sadie sue, cracker, more, truck, car, dog, mama, dada, dylan, basically will repeat after you.
- Loves saying hot when he sees coffee or to anything he thinks or is hot.
- Feedings - Started him giving himself his morning 6 oz bottle in highchair while making breakfast, then gets breakfast (cereal with toast or waffle with butter, jelly or pb), snacks melon, crackers, blueberries, apples, apple crisps, pouches, smoothies; lunch & dinner - what we are eating with a pouch; cut out bedtime bottle. Water to drink.
- Short attention span - wants to eat on the go. Loves going back for seconds of crackers, fig bars, cinnamon rolls (thanksgiving), mommy’s coffee cake or banana bread.
- He loves his water & drinking from your cup or water bottle
- Naps - Started 1 nap a day. Took about a week to move back & adjust. If fell asleep too early then wouldn’t nap as long or wouldn’t go down for 2nd nap easily. Kept him up longer and longer until finally reaching between 11:30-1 depending on when he woke up. Nap ranges from 1.75-2.5 hours.
- Bedtime - 7:15pm. Depending on nap.
- Waking at 4-4:30 am hopefully was because he needed only 1 nap. We also adjusted his bottles because waking with a full wet diaper and then in the morning immediately expecting it no matter what time he woke up.
- Follows commands, get items & put them back, come to mommy, get shoes, etc.
- Puts items into containers, loves putting things in the trash & saying Trash when he sees a trashcan or thinks something is trash.
- Loves his train set, will sit and play for a long time & sitting at his table with his puzzles.
- Clothes - in 12-18 months or 18 months, some 2T. Finally grew into his size.
