12 months

{October 2, 2011}

I did a horrible job at writing down and keeping track of what Eli has been up to during the month of September---his 12th month. 

he loves to go outside! we had a few picnics in the backyard that one week it was actually cool. sometimes in the evening we'll let him walk around on the sidewalk and play in the front yard grass. he absolutely loves it! 

some new words he learned: light (lie), dog (dah), bird (bur), bat (bah). he first said dog when we went to ashleys house and he saw their dog. Up until that point he must have thought patch was a cat...? ;)

since then he acknowledges patch as a dog. he knows and looks at those things around the house when i ask him where they are. (light, dog, bird, bat <---halloween decor)

he's such a good sleeper. he goes to bed between 7-7:30, sometimes wakes up once crying. we just give him a binky and he goes back to sleep. then nurses around 4 or 5. if he doesn't wake up then i'll nurse him at 5 when i get up to work out. he'll then sleep until 7 or 7:15. i know people say "never wake a sleeping baby" BUT if it's past 7:15 and he's still asleep i will wake him up so he's ready for his 9:00 nap....and in turn making him ready for his pm nap. his first nap he does down around 9. it's typically a 2 hour nap, but he surprised me and slept 2hr 20 minute- 2hr 45 minutes about 10 times that month. he usually goes down for his pm nap 2.5-3 hours after he wakes up from his morning nap. that's nap is typically 1.5 hours long. Quite a few days he nixed that pm nap altogether. I'd put him down like usual and he'd be quiet for a while then start gabbing away! I usually work during nap times so as long as he was playfully talking, I just left him in there so I could get my work done. 

I didn't do so great this month with EC. Partly because he has been so discrete when he goes. I haven't been catching him in the act like I used to. Another reason is he has found a new potty time. He'll go in his crib. Either in the morning before he gets up, or after I lay him down for his pm. Which sometimes coincided with those days he didn't have a pm nap....I'd go in to try and lay him back down only to notice he needed a change. 

he still loves the same foods as before. he likes quinoa more than last month.

he loves drinking from a straw and doesn't care too much for his sippy.

loves dancing to this song.

is crazy at church! he's all over the place during the sacrament meeting. it took a few times of sitting in the first pew to realize we can't do that. all he wants is to get off the bench and climb up the stairs. sitting in the middle though, he likes to crawl under the pews or slip in between the pew and the wall to visit the families in front or behind us. same goes for sunday school. and relief society? fuhgetaboutit! since eli doesn't need to nurse at church anymore, jackson will take him to ym with him. unless he's teaching. otherwise i roam the halls or let him play in the mother's lounge :) having my mom in the ward helps, too. she likes talking him out to walk the halls.