So …. 2 months until Ben’s first birthday (and, incidentally, 2 months until I have committed to run 13.1 miles – but that’s another post). I am trying to not write the same thing over again … how fast it’s gone and how much he’s changed, but man, it has to be said. It went by in a blink. And he HAS changed so much!
A short month ago he was crawling like a champ and pulling up. He now stands in the middle of the room, unassisted, just biding his time until taking those first steps. He kneels, squats down and goes up the stairs and other objects very well. Down, is a different matter, and he pretty much goes head-first off whatever. The boy doesn’t seem to have a bit of fear and I swear, he’s the one that will end up with stitches!! He’s already fallen down stairs and chomped his lip open (twice) on his very sharp teeth. He constantly looks like he’s been in a fight, with scratches and bruises all over himself. He is very different from Tabby and not cautious at all … he just goes for it, consequences not even a consideration.
I also cannot believe how communicative he has become, clapping, responding to “How big is Ben?” by raising his arms and now pointing to things he wants and places he wants to go. He seems very keen to talk and I feel certain in asserting that he is trying to mimic words that we say for him. He says Mama and Dada, though not consistently and without necessarily correct associations. I think I may try to teach him sign language more since he picked up “How big is Ben?” and “How old are you?” and the corresponding response gestures very easily.
Sleep-wise … what to say? He is still generally up at least once a night for some milk. I have been so dead tired due to overwork this past bit that I have really not registered it all or even tried to correct it. This will be a fight for later, when I’m not up to my eyeballs in it.
He is eating like a champ and at least some of his gag-reflex issues seem to be gone. I am still being more cautious with him, though and cut up his food more often than not. He still loves his bottle, but will now steal Tabby’s sippy and have a drink from that. I look forward to weaning him off the bottle before too long.
Size: Who knows … still 4 in diapers, though I think we’ll be done with them soon, averaging 24 mos in clothes, need to buy him new shoes, so not sure on that
Likes: being read to, his toy piano, FOOD, dogs, music, the vacuum, climbing
Dislikes: not getting his way
So our resident BOY had quite a night last night. We were getting his room cleaned up and his laundry put away when he tripped over Matt’s foot and took a little tumble. No crash, no fireworks, just a few tears. There weren’t many sound effects and he wasn’t even terribly loud with his crying. But he came up gushing blood. As it turns out, he had crashed his lip into his tooth and cut it up pretty good. A bottle of ice cold water and some snuggles helped and he got back to his old self pretty quickly. And hurled a book at me. In joy, to be sure.
Tabby had her own fun going on. She got a new workbook this weekend when we went to Barnes and Noble. It’s for teaching uppercase letters. She is really getting interested in letters and what words start with and identifying letters. We were both really amazed how well she did with tracing letters and she really enjoyed it and did over 15 pages. We’ve got some more workbooks, etc. for her to do when she feels like it. We decided it was time now that she can pick out a few words by sight and knows pretty much everything we’re spelling. We won’t be able to get away with that for Ben for nearly as long. She’ll rat us out.
