Fourteen Months

June 6, 2017

August is 14 months old!

This month, August:

Weighs/Measures: (checkup next month)

Teeth: 6

Words: Mama, Dada, hi, bye-bye, uh-oh, ball, eye, bear (beah), boo (peekaboo), bubba (buddy), bloo (balloon), bir (bird), roar, and a few random words from his favorite books i.e. bull & Bob

Loves:

Cuddles
Climbing
Crawling in and under stuff
Eating!
Books! Will go get a book and grunt at mama to read it to him:) A few current favorites include The Mitten, From Head to Toe (loves doing some of the actions like clapping like a seal), baby faces books, Trucks lift the flap book, first words books, abc interactive book, Goodnight Moon
Roaring like a lion
Exploring new things
Peekaboo
Tickles
Rough-housing with Dad
People watching
One-on-one time with mama and/or dada
“Singing” karaoke (aka putting the microphone in his mouth and yelling “uhhhhhhh”)
Swinging, crawling through tunnels, and sliding with mama at the park
Being sung to and danced around
Bouncing
Playing at Gymboree
Biting
Opening his mouth as wide as he can when he’s excited, taking a big bite, or just being silly
Ellie wubbanub & “binks”
Downward dogging

Dislikes:

Getting dressed and diaper changed
When sissy takes his toys or doesn’t share
Getting nails clipped

What’s New:

Can walk assisted holding on to one of mama’s hands
Gives kisses upon request—complete with a smooch sound
His receptive language skills are strong—he can understand so much more than he can say (which is sometimes frustrating for him!)
Expresses himself more strongly now when upset or when he doesn’t like something. Examples: putting up a fight when trying to dress him/change his diaper by rolling around, trying to crawl away, etc; Will throw and hit toys if you try to give them to him when he’s mad; Bows out his body and flings his head back when holding him while upset
Going along with the above, has started to fight back a bit when Scarlett takes his toys or is too rough with him
Makes sound effects like roaring like a lion whenever he sees a lion or hears the word, makes a vroom sound when playing with cars, claps and barks like a seal when we read “From Head to Toe”
Can stand independently for about 10 seconds before getting distracted and crawling away
Has started to copy some of sissy’s undesirable actions such as hitting (thinks it’s funny)

Other Activity:

Sleep: Goes to bed around 8:30pm and has been sleeping until about 7:30-8am most days. He still wakes up once early morning (anywhere from 3-6am) to nurse before going right back to sleep. He takes a nap in the afternoon from about 2-5pm, and will occasionally take a short morning nap (if we are actually home at that time—otherwise he snoozes in the car!) around 10:30am for about 30-60min.
Eating: Nurses approximately 4-5x/day and eats 3 solid meals. He is quite the eater these days! He will eat almost anything you put in front of him, and if he likes it, he’ll eat quite a bit.

Nicknames: Goomy, Goom, Goomici, Hammy, Hamici, Doughman, Chuub, Chuuba

Pictures from August’s 14th month:

Photoshoot outtakes