Reed's other big accomplishment this month has been talking. He's been adding 3, 4, 5 words a day to his arsenal. Some are harder to understand than others, but he is very clearly connecting the dots between an object and it's associated word all the time. This will be the last month I keep track of his "words" instead I will start to focus on his speech. This month I would say he can say almost any one syllable word either on his own or by mimicking us. There are a couple two syllable words that he has morphed into one syllable words and if we ask him to say a multiple syllable word he usually picks out one of the word's sounds and goes with that. A few times he has strung two words together to get across what he wants - "please eat" "mom cut" "more peas" "mom toes"
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Monthly Statistics
Weight: 25 lbs
Height: I attempted measuring him the other day and came up with 33 inches - but who knows!!!
Clothing Size: 12-18
month pants are still fitting but his tops and pajamas are all 18-24
months.
Shoe Size: I just ordered a pair of size 6 shoes - he is squeezing into the size 5s until they arrive.
Teeth: 12 - 4
bottom/front, 2 bottom molars, and 4 top/front., 2 top molars. Last month I said it looked like his
top canine teeth would be making an appearance soon, but we still haven't seen them.
Reed likes: Shoes,
Soft Sheep, Pete the Puppy, and other stuffed animals, Signing Time DVDs, balls, anything that's in "his" kitchen cabinet, reading books, his pop-up tunnel, playing
outside, his wagon, Dodger (all dogs for that matter), anything electronic he
can take when Mom's not looking, going to gym class, bath time, his Cozy
Coupe Car, his Grandma and Nonna, rocks, hats (when they are on someone else's head) and playing in puddles (especially when he knows he's not supposed to).
Reed dislikes:
Sleeping in, having Mom cut a hole in his pacifier (oops, learned that one the really hard way), diaper changes, saying goodbye to Mom, being told no, and nasal
aspirators.
Nicknames: Reedster,
Reedcito, Reed Reed, Buddy, Monkey, and Sweet Pea.
Favorite Foods:
Applesauce, blueberries, grapes, pancakes, BREAD, muffins, AVOCADO, mushrooms,
carnitas, dried cranberries, chicken, BANANA, oranges, whole pears and apples, sausage, steak, fish, graham crackers, snap pea crisps, smoothies, cheerios, peas, oatmeal, milk (likes rice better than hemp but drinks either happily),
and anything that he can use as a "dip." Since he has started to get picky about veggies I bought some reusable "Little Green Pouch" squeeze containers that have worked great, Reed loves the fruit/veggie filled purees and he's good about not making too much of a mess with them if he gets hungry when we are in the car or out and about.
Foods he doesn't like: Broccoli, ground meats, tortillas, beans, rice, cauliflower, squash.
Words: Okay so I'm going to try to do this in alphabetical order by the correct spelling of the word, this is the last month I'm going to track this since I feel like I'm constantly making notes on my phone of what Reed is saying.
app (apple), cod (avocado), bah (sound a sheep makes, bawl (ball), baan/naan (banana), bas/bath, bee, bear, bares (berries), bi (bike), burd (bird), blares (blueberries), bok (block), boat, book, boom, bull (bowl), brea (bread), brrr, bwush (brush), bus, buzz, bye, cap (clap), tar (car), tat (cat), cheng (change), chees (cheers or cheerios), chin, cow, tup (cup), cut, Dad, daw (dog), daan (done), daawn (down), eas (ears), eat, eeeh eeeh (sound a monkey makes), eye, ish/shish (fish), flouw (flower), flush (sometimes he says it slush), geeaff (girraffe), hand, hat, hi, horse, hot, huwt (hurt), in, hay (inhaler), pad (iPad), jack (jacket), keys, kick, nice (knife), knock, wid (lid), noow (meow), meth (mess), nilk (milk), mom, monk (monkey), moo, mo (more), mout (mouth), no, nose, ong (oink), on (he uses this for both on and off), onge (orange), Pa (Grandpa), pans (pants), paste (toothpaste), peas, phone, pig, pate (plate), pees (please), pum (plum), poop, potty, push, rab (rabbit), red, roar, rock (both the stone and the movement), run, sign, shafs (soft), choos (shoes), shouw (shower), sit (with an occasional "h" thrown in to make us look like bad parents), socks, pash (splash), tick (stick), sun, tea, dat (that), dis (this), time, toast, toes, taal (towel), tren (train), tees (trees), truck, turn, tweet, vroom, wa (water), woof woof, yeah, yuck, umm (yum).
Signs: I'm probably not going to keep track of these anymore either. Signing was a great way to help Reed communicate early on and we plan to continue to let him watch his DVDs, but with his vocabulary taking off the signs have definitely taken a back seat.
Eat, more,
finished, bird, dog, baby, milk, ball, flower, fish, sleep, book, car, play,
shoes (looks like "more" though), potty (when he or Dodger go #2), hat, Dad, cat, water, bath, change, sit, orange, train, swing, banana, poop, red, please, rock, thank you, green, read, socks, clean, stop, Grandpa, wait, and fruit.
How Reed is sleeping:
He goes to bed around 7:30pm, then
he usually wakes somewhere between 6:00 and 7:00 am. He sleeps in a sleep sack,
with a pacifier, Soft Sheep and Pete the Puppy. We also
have a sound machine and a night light that goes off after about half an hour. A couple times a week he sleeps through the night, another 3 or so nights he just needs to be given a pacifier that has been pushed through the crib slats at some point, and then 1-2 nights it seems like he has had some kind of night terror because he wakes up screaming and won't let go of me when I come in to check on him. On those nights I usually end up rocking him back to sleep or letting him sleep in bed with us for a little bit. He is down to one nap a day. Going down around 11:30 and sleeping 2-3 hours. He went a week straight napping without a pacifier, but then had a streak of absolute meltdowns that I couldn't bear so I caved and decided to tackle the problem by cutting a small hole in the pacifier and gradually enlarging it until it became undesirable to him. Well apparently one small hole is undesirable and he lost it. Now he thoroughly inspects a pacifier before he'll accept it. I'm backing off for a week or two to lower his suspicions and then I'll probably try cold turkey at nap time again.
Watching Reed's sense of humor develop this month has been so much fun. Now that he is talking more, I swear sometimes he is trying to make a joke. I'll catch him making a buzzing sound with his finger pointed, land it on his tummy, and start screaming/laughing. If I ask him what sound Dodger makes when he is hot he'll start panting and then chuckle about it. I was buying beer at the grocery store the other day and the bottles clinked together and Reed said "Dad" with the most devilish grin. Unfortunately something else he finds really funny is throwing food off his tray when I'm not looking then saying "meth (mess)" shaking his head saying "no" and laughing.
Not that we are anywhere close to potty training, but now when he goes poop, he says "potty" and does the sign, then he says "cheng (change)." Sometimes I'll put the poop in the toilet and let him flush, he waves and says "bye bye" then puts the lid down runs to his stool to wash his hands.
Milestones:
01/25/13 First trip to the Zoo
01/31/13 Reed started napping without a pacifier (occasionally)
01/31/13 Reed figures out how to work a zipper on his lunch bag
02/02/13 Reed closes a door using the knob
02/08/13 Reed strings two words together "Please eat"
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