Stats:
- Weight: 27 lb 7 oz - 91st percentile
- Height: 35.5" - 99.9th percentile
- Head Circumference: 50.2 cm - 98.9th percentile
- Weight/Length Percentile: 37%
- Diapers: Size 4
- Clothing: 18 pants. 18 mo or 2 T T-shirts. 2T-3T socks
- Shoe Size: 7
- Teeth: 16
Sleep
Miles wakes up between 7:30 and 8:30. Then he takes 1 nap a day. It’s mostly near 12:30. Sometimes it's a little later. He naps 1-2.5 hours daily. We start bedtime at 7:30 PM. He goes to sleep so well and even if he ever wakes up and cries for a second, he puts himself back to sleep.
Eating
Miles snacks in the morning upstairs while we are getting Ella ready or has breakfast in the car. He eats a bigger meal at some point before nap. He likes to eat right after nap. Then we get Ella and they snack in the car on the way home. They start dinner or snack immediately after getting home. The kids eat while I cook. Then they mostly don’t eat the actual dinner. He’s in his high chair most of the time we are eating. He has some dessert too. Then it’s almost bedtime. He has a yogurt or yogurt smoothie before going up to bed.
Sample Schedule:
Start bedtime routine pretty close to 7:30. Routine is Benadryl, diaper change, put him in his scratch sleeves and sleep sack. Put on some ointments but most of the time I don't put on any. Then I read books to him. We read 7 or more every night (and before every nap.) He has some favorites. I leave one arm out of the scratch sleeves so he can turn pages and lift flaps. He takes a book to the crib with him. He always goes into the crib into the corner with his head on the pillow. I cover him with his 2 afghans and the fleece blanket. Then I turn on his night light elephant and he holds his book. He falls asleep within minutes. He sleeps all night. If I happen to hear him make noise in the night he goes back to sleep himself. He wakes up anywhere between 7:30 and 8:30 for the day. Get Ella ready for school, drop Ella off, and he has a snack in the car. Sometimes he falls asleep on the way home and other times he doesn't nap until 2.
11 lunch
12:30 nap routine starts - We transitioned from nursing to book reading. We read about 6 books before nap and he goes into his crib awake.
1-3 nap
eat, play, hangout, get Ella, eat, play
then 7:30 bedtime routine again
He gets Benadryl before bed at night and before nap.
Special Moments:
On January 11, Miles climbed up on gray couch all by himself. He stood on scale before bath then peed!
On January 12, there was no nursing before bed. I asked if he wanted books or nursing and he chose books. I was going to have that be the last time we nurse so looks like we were done without realizing.
On January 13, Miles blew his nose when I held a Kleenex up.
On January 16, Super long nap. I had to wake him to get Ella.
On January 17, Miles had a fever. He was so cranky. I actually nursed! I guess we weren't done forever.
On January 18, Miles is still sick but medicine helps. New word past few days: cook
On January 20, Miles wanted to eat. So I try offering him cereal or cereal bars. He wasn’t having any of that and tells me to cook.
On January 21, Miles dragged the step stool in the kitchen to climb up on it. Later he fell off couch. Bit tongue. Bloody
On January 22, he's still sick and miserable. Walking into preschool this morning he face planted on the sidewalk. He only scraped himself a little.
On January 23, I noted that the past couple days he learned the new thing of being held and flailing back and arching his back. And almost killing my back
On January 25, he turned on the stove. He threw laptop down stairs to landing.
On January 26, he opened and turned on the fan for cooktop. He threw wipes packages over to foyer. His first time drinking from water fountain.
On January 27, I walked into living room to Ella and Miles were sitting at the picnic table beside each other playing.
On January 28, Miles did not have a nap because I forgot to put him down. We were busy out shopping then played outside as soon as we got home.
On January 30, he woke up saying "da da da da" so Then Dave went in and got him. He spilt lemonade. Then he went and got a dish towel from drawer and cleaned it up.
On January 31, I took Miles to indoor play place. First time without Ella. He was pretty shy at first and then warmed up and played.
On February 3, he mostly climbed up in the high chair. Just noticed that he has 4 new teeth!
On February 4, at 11:47 PM he woke up and cried and back to sleep himself.
On February 5, I realize Miles has been running the past few days.
On February 6, Miles can kick a ball.
On February 7, he painted his own nails for the first time. Ella painted his toenails first time too.
On February 8, Dave put Miles to bed while I was at PT. It was his first time. He read him 2 books. (He doesn’t read more even though I read 7.)
On February 10, Miles said he wanted to sit on potty. He did and peed. But he had on diaper and pants. He was 34 inches tall standing. He had no nap! We were at my parents and he just didn't nap.
Development:
He can climb up on the couches that were a little higher and he couldn't climb on them last month.
He's learned even more body parts.
He started running.
Communication:
He will sign water, more, all done, milk, and eat. He doesn't nurse anymore and doesn't drink milk so he doesn't really sign for milk anymore. He said many words one time but not really again. He has repeated animal names when playing peek-a-boo barn. He's said a lot of things one time like straw but then hasn't said these things enough for me to remember them to count them below.
New Words
boon (balloon)
Still Saying
Sock (Sa)
Caa (Clock)
Car
Ba (ball)
Pap-Pap
Dada
Ella
Mama
Look
Up
Cat
Other Tidbits:
Likes
He loves to shovel.
He loves books.
He loves to slop in the kitchen sink.
He likes to climb up on everything.
He likes to be independent.
He likes to walk around.
He likes to be held on my left hip.
He likes to eat!
He likes to run over and try to hug Daddy.
He likes to play.
He likes Ella! He misses her when she's at school.
He likes Benadryl.
He likes to help give himself Benadryl and even suck the medicine out of the syringe.
He likes to try to get anything that he should not have.
He likes to play outside.
He likes to ride the horsey.
He loves clocks and always points them out.
He likes to climb the stairs.
He likes to go down the stairs on his butt.
Dislikes
He doesn't like baths.
He doesn't like to sleep anywhere but his crib or his carseat.
He doesn't like anyone but Pap-Pap to feed him with a spoon/fork. (He has to feed himself otherwise.)
He doesn't like attention from people he doesn't know.
Fun Facts
Longest time sleeping: 13 hours 54 minutes (increase)
Days with a sleep greater than 5 hours: 31
Days with a sleep greater than 6 hours: 31
(According to the internet sleeping through the night is considered sleeping 5-6 straight hours.)
Days with sleep greater than 8 hours: 31
Diapers used (from February 1-10): 4 per day
Time spent nursing (from February 1-10): 0:00 per day
Time spent sleeping (from February1-10): 13:34 per day (increase)
Doctor Visits: 0
Illnesses: 2
Favorite Toys
books
playdough
balls
legos
kid chair
Favorite Songs
If You're Happy and You Know it...
Old MacDonald had a farm.
Favorite Books
Brown Bear Brown Bear
Panda Bear Panda Bear
It's Pajama Time
Dear Zoo
the little Paw Patrol books.
Pretty much all books
Favorite Foods
any sort of meat
yogurt (strawberry banana is probably his favorite but he eats a few) (3-5/day)
yogurt smoothies
fruit snacks
ketchup
Random Tidbits
He's way more of a trouble maker this month. He pours Poly's water bowl into her food bowl or vice versa. Or he just dumps them out everywhere. Sometimes when he knows he's doing something wrong he runs to the corner and continues doing it.
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