As you can tell from the above picture, his hair is really starting to turn blonde. So I guess he will be a mini blonde version of Clay. Although if he keeps growing at the rate he has been, he won't be mini for long!
Over the past month he has kept up his now usual pace of life, high-speed, he is pretty much non-stop from sun up to sun down other than naps. He almost never wants to be held, unless you are standing up and moving. This makes me sad because I love to snuggle him! He wants to always be on the floor/ground exploring. He is super inquisitive, always looking around, trying to grab things and usually trying to put those things he gets his hand on into his mouth. This has proved to be a problem when Clay has taken him fishing at the pond by our house. Clay will wear the baby carrier which puts Gavin right in front of his chest facing outward and Gavin insists on "helping" Clay with his fishing rod. I wish I had some pictures of this but I am always at work when they go.
Some of the things he has done this past month that I actually wrote down the dates are:
2/14 - first success with sippy cup, and quickly thereafter many, many more failures. We may have found a juice that will tempt him into drinking, Orange, Mango, Peach.
2/14 - first table food meal at the table with the family!! I am happy to say that we have kept up this tradition for the entire month with only a couple of relapses of the old habit of sitting on the couch watching TV.
2/27 - first separation anxiety episode was at church. As soon as we handed him off he starting crying, which broke my heart!! Good thing Clay was there to ease me out the door or we may never have made it to the service that day. He has continued this practice each Sunday since although last night he was just fine, but that probably had something to do with everyone being outside on the playground. I don't think he would have cared if I had handed him to a monster at that point.
Words?? 3/6 - ball, cat, clap - whatever you would call what he is saying, started before 3/6 or at least the gibberish we assume to be clap did. Ms. Mae at school was the first one to notice it, so you can't say it is just us crazy parents making stuff up. He still refuses to say Mama though.
He is getting really close to walking, I think. We have noticed that sometimes he will crawl with one knee on the floor and then with one foot on the floor. I wish I had a picture because I know I am not making any sense with the description.
Some other things he has done lately that I may or may not have already mentioned in previous posts:
- Pants like Doug the dog, so funny to listen to!
- Loves to bounce/dance to music. You should have seen us getting down at the Azalea Festival to the Rolling Stones, good thing Clay didn't get any videos of that!!
- Gives me big hugs, which almost makes up for the fact he refuses to say Mama
- has complete conversations with us, his stuffed animals, random other objects. You can not understand a word he is saying but he seems to talk in sentences and will pause for response. It's funny to listen to he and I talk, him in his gibberish and me responding normally like I have a clue as to what he just said.
- his favorite toy, other than Clay, is his blue rubber ball. He will even sit down and roll it back and forth with us for a few seconds until he gets distracted by something else.
Gavin is now on a 4 hour schedule for bottles which has him down to 4 8oz bottles a day. He also has 3 normal meals and 1 snack. He is on 100% table (real) food other than his oatmeal cereal.
For breakfast he eats either oatmeal cereal or Cheerios
Lunch: whatever school has
Snack: whatever school has which is usually vanilla wafers or graham crackers. If he is at home then he gets Cheerios, plain kind not honey (mean Mommy)
Dinner: Meat (usually fish) or other protein (usually beans), a veggie (loves them all), a fruit (not picky here either), and sometimes he will have some kind of starch like noodles or a tortilla.
I can hardly believe that in less than 2 months he will be one year old! We just ordered his birthday invitations and they are so cute!
I will post next about our trip to the Azalea Festival which didn't consist of much but taking some pictures and playing on the swing.
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