Height/Weight: No official stats, but if I'm being honest, I feel like he's plateaued here a little bit. Which isn't terribly uncommon for breastfed babies (especially ridiculously mobile ones); the other two just hit their plateaus earlier. I'm sure he'll still end up be bigger than both William and Garrett at a year, but maybe not by as much as I was initially thinking.
Wearing: Pretty much all twelve month clothing (plus a few eighteen month items, although pretty much just rompers which I've always felt like run a little small regardless of brand) and exclusively size four diapers.
Eating: Oh boy. Anything and everything. A few weeks ago we started giving him the same thing we were having for dinner (just diced up really small) and there's been absolutely no looking back. He has pretty much inhaled everything we've been giving him (jambalaya, salmon, enchiladas, tater tot casserole--just to name a few). He also tends to do better with his vegetables cut up small as opposed to pureed, although he'll still eat some purees as long as he's being served something else as well (which is good, because we had built up quite a stash in our freezer). He eats three meals a day with us, and nurses periodically in between (usually four or five times during the day plus at least one feeding at night still).
Sleeping: Still a little hit or miss, but we've started to see some improvement over the past few weeks because we've been making him cut down to just one feeding at night. Darrell had to sit with him for a few nights, but now even if he does wake up around midnight Darrell can usually get away with just rubbing his back and he'll fall back asleep. I can pretty well count on two naps out of him, although we don't always get his morning nap in at the house and sometimes he'll sneak in a late afternoon nap if we're out and about and his earlier naps weren't the greatest. Otherwise he usually settles down in his crib pretty well, and he almost always overlaps with Garrett for at least thirty minutes, which is glorious.
New Stuff: A little more quiet than last month, although we did hang out at the lake for a five day stretch over the 4th, so I suppose that length of time at the lake (and the 4th of July) was new, but he did really well--or at least as well as could be expected since he was cutting one of his top teeth (which, for the record, we were convinced was bothering him a month ago at the beach, and it now appears his other top tooth has started to swell up and come in, but I'm sure cutting that tooth completely will be another multi-week process as well #teethingsucks). While he's certainly been aware of his environment in the past, he's definitely started to become more intentional with and aware of how he interacts with it--things like clapping are no longer just random actions but a very conscious response to what is going on around him (which was a little problematic at my brother's baseball when we were the away team; he kept clapping when the majority of the other people were clapping, and they were all clapping for the opposite team!). The downside to this is that object permanence has started to rear its ugly head--he is fully aware that Mommy (and Daddy) still exist even after they leave the room, and he definitely makes it known that he does not approve of us walking away (which has been somewhat problematic at bedtime/nap time, although he gets over it pretty quickly). Plus, during the day, his brothers typically do an excellent job of distracting him, so I'm still able to step away to get a few things done. And I know I've said this about every one of my boys, but holy cow is this kid stubborn. He knows what he wants, and man alive he gets upset if he doesn't get it. He can get a little wild when he gets upset, and I don't know if it's just because he's a little bigger than his brothers were at this age or if he is just that much stronger, but sometimes I swear he is going to throw himself out of my arms. I suppose the upside to that is maybe he'll end up being a good roller coaster buddy for Daddy someday because he seems to not be bothered by throwing himself backwards and nearly ending up upside down #silverlining
