13 Months

{September 28th}

I don't plan on necessarily continuing updates every month but he is changing and learning so much, so quickly that I still want to capture it somewhere!

Braxton still only has 4 teeth.

(He got his top 2 teeth between 11 and 12 months)

He is walking all over the house.

We love watching him since he looks so much like a little person now.

He is so happy to just stroll around.

He usually finds 1 thing and carries it around with him all day... among playing with his other toys.

He is sleeping so good right now!

I'm probably going to jinx this one by typing it out but oh well.

After 3 sessions of sleep training- he is doing awesome. 

We are on a pretty consistent routine of putting him down at 7:30.

We usually give him milk, read to him, and rock him until he settles down.

If he has his blanket, then he recognizes its bed time and cuddles up.

He won't fall entirely asleep on us anymore so we'll put him in his crib anyways.
He usually wakes up, cries for less than a minute and then lays down and puts himself to sleep.

He wakes up right around 6:00am... like clockwork.

Still takes 2 good naps a day, usually for an hour or two.

He is about to move up rooms at daycare and will only get 1 nap in the older room.

He is back to a regular diet and eating like crazy.

He acts like we haven't fed him in weeks and usually can't shove the food in his mouth fast enough.

Can sign the words "more", "eat", "milk" and "all done"

Brian and I totally melt when we see his little fingers come together... seriously, there is nothing cuter than a baby signing.

Can say the words "mama", "dada", "nigh night", "meow", and "nana" for  banana.

We have put him back on whole milk. 

He basically just stopped drinking the soy milk.
I don't know if he doesn't like the taste, but he did the same thing with soy formula too when we tried it.

We introduced milk/cheese/yogurt back into his diet and he seems to be tolerating it fine for now.

He does not go to anyone else easily... definitely in the 'stranger danger' phase.
He is very hesitant to even go to any of our friends or family unless he sees them regularly and Brian and I aren't around.

Can do most of the actions to "Itsy Bitsy Spider"
He used to just watch me do them while I sang but I sang it once without doing the actions and he started doing them on his own.
I'll have to tape it... its so dang cute!

We got him a wagon for his birthday and he loves to take rides.
He'll sit there very calmly while we buckle him in and then just sits and holds on with both hands as we walk up to the mailbox every night.

He loves to help with the dishes.
He is obsessed with the dishwasher when its open... climbs right on it and tries to take out the silverware or any dishes on the bottom rack.
He totally loses it if we close the door.

Can mimic a lot of things we do.
We showed him how to blow kisses and within a minute or so he would mimic us and even make the smooching sound.

Loves to drink milk from Brian's (or anyones!) cereal bowl.
Brian started giving him a few spoonfuls of milk from his bowl when he was done with his cereal one day and Braxton loved it!
(he probably loved the taste since he was over the soy milk)
He started begging for it any time he saw Brian eating cereal.
When he sits with Brian eating, its like 1 bite for Brian, 1 spoonful for Nug...
He has even recently started just sticking his little fingers in the bowl and picking out the cereal to eat too.

Is still a daddy's boy... although, I think I am gaining some favor now.

Loves it when you chase him.
He'll get so excited and start giggling when you get close.

Thinks its funny when we catch him into something he's not supposed to be in
(like pulling the filler out of the fake tree)
He'll look us straight in the eye and start laughing like crazy.
He makes it really hard to stay mad when we heard his awesome giggle.