We officially have a one year old in the house!
Waking up as a one-year-old:
We had his one year check-up on Wednesday afternoon.
18lb 8.5oz (10th percentile)
28" (3rd percentile)
Head 46cm (47th percentile)
It's amazing how that rapid infant growth just slows wayyyyy down around 9 months. He's barely grown at all since then (well, compared to how much he used to grow between appointments).
We reviewed all sorts of things with Dr. Butcher: sleeping, eating, pooping, discipline, talking, walking, moving. Basically D is right on track where he should be! Unfortunately we also discovered that he has an awful ear infection (just one ear) so we're on antibiotics for that. Poor guy - we didn't even know!
Milk
We've started the transition to cow's milk - we've given him some in a sippy cup the past two nights at dinner. He's had no issues drinking it, doesn't even seem to notice it's something he's never had before! Supposed to get him drinking 6-8oz per day as long as he's still nursing, and eventually getting 16-24oz when he's totally off breastmilk. Basically 16-24oz of milk (cow or mine) per day is the goal. He's also supposed to be transitioning away from bottles at daycare, so that's another element to it. My tentative plan is to switch out one pumped bottle with one sippy of milk each week until he's totally on cow's milk at daycare. I'll still nurse him morning and night and hopefully get to the point of not pumping at work at all (I'm only doing once a day currently, and I dropped my bedtime pump). It's more emotional to stop than I'd anticipated, but I'm also looking forward to being freeeeeeeeee. :)
Food
He's starting to get a little pickier with his eating, and he has definite preferences now - he looooves sweet potatoes, strawberries, saltine crackers, and green beans. Everything else is hit-or-miss. Some nights he'll eat anything, other nights he's just whiiiiine whine whine. Dr. Butcher told us that his dinner is likely going to be the smallest meal, and it's fine if he doesn't really eat anything for a night or two. We know he eats plenty at daycare, so it's not like he'll starve! Hoping once we get this ear infection cleared up he'll be happier at dinner times.
Movement
I just a little over a month, Dargan has gone from not even crawling, to crawling everywhere, and fast! Just over a week ago he started pulling up to standing, and now he's pulling up all over the place. Lately, in just the last day or two, he's started doing some very tentative cruising (i.e. side-stepping while holding on to things like the coffee table or couch). It's so cute to watch him take teeeeny little steps. :) He's also getting better at sitting down carefully from standing.
 |
| Sitting down carefully |
Sleep
We're still pretty consistent on the schedule we've had... he goes to bed 7:30/8 (sometimes later if we're busy doing stuff, but we ideally try to shoot for bed by 8) and generally sleeps til 5:30ish. Later if we're lucky, earlier if we're not. Many of the early wake-ups are poop-related. Unfortunately Dr. Butcher says there's really nothing to do about him waking up that early - it's just his natural clock. She was happy to hear that he's already transitioned to one nap per day (thank you, daycare). He's pretty regular with a 11:30-1:30 nap these days, although we're terrible about sticking to that schedule on the weekends, so he usually gets multiple shorter naps on the weekend.
Playing
He gets more and more interactive each day, and it's so fun to watch him learn and figure stuff out.
Playing with his new dump truck while saying "Uh-oh"
 |
| After a nice #10kTuesday run together |
 |
| Dump trucks! |
Dargan got a new bike helmet for his birthday...
... it's still a bit big.
Bathtime fun
Fun new game: taking turns blowing raspberries in the cup! Hilarious!
