Gaven turned 16 months old last Friday. He is growing up so fast! My little man is so sweet and affectionate... and mischievous! He likes to test our boundaries everyday.
He has become quite a climbing monster. He climbs on everything and uses anything as a stool to help him get there. We can’t take our eyes off him even for a single minute. It’s hard for me to take a good picture of him now. He won’t sit still and is constantly on the move. He climbs, falls and hurts himself a lot. He once got a black eye from hitting the corner of his eye on a ladder! The black eye lasted for a couple weeks.
He loves playing with water and dirt. More so with water. Whenever we are playing outside in the backyard, he heads straight to the garden hose. Loves getting sprayed and wet and full of dirt. Boys. Maybe girls are more tame. He uses his little toy shovel to dig the dirt. Probably learned that from his dad when we’re doing gardening outside.
He is not eating as much food as we would like him to. The most stressful part of taking care of him is getting him to eat enough. knowing that he didn’t gain any weight from his 12 month and 15 months check up makes it even more stressful. Every meal time, I have to “force” him to chow down as much as he can. We also started him back on formula, Enfagrow. After talking to a few mommies out there, we think it’s best to put him back on formula since he is not eating much. Formula has more nutrition we think. He drinks it out of straw cup. It is not recommended to put him back on a bottle since they can grow attached to it. We have already successfully taken the bottle away from him when he was 12 months, and there is no way we are putting him back on a bottle. I talked to my ped, and he suggested that I put the formula in a straw cup. So right now, he takes formula twice a day and cow milk twice a day. Total intake of milk is about 22 oz. We should probably drop his milk intake to get him to eat more solids. Will see.
His current favorite book is Brown Bear. It use to be Good Night California. We read the book together every night over and over again. He likes to point to the animals and say “what’s tha……t?”. Although it sounds more like “what’s sa…????”
His sleeping habit has gotten worse. He used to be able to fall asleep on his own at night. We would say our good nights and turn off the lights and close his bedroom door behind us. Now, he wants us to stay with him and rock him. When we step out of his room, he starts crying for us to come back in. not fun. He also wakes up earlier and earlier so he can come to bed with us. We need to probably start sleep training again, which is hard now that he is older and more alert of his surroundings. And his bloody murder cries in the middle of the night just kills us. We have given in the past couple nights. We should really start be firm and start sleep train again. Hopefully we can start getting some rest and peaceful sleep again.
He can say a lot of words now. He just started saying “no” recently… probably learn that from us since we are always saying no to him. He also said “high chair” which sounds exactly like high chair. He understands a lot of things we say. He knows to put his dirty clothes to his hamper when we tell him to.
His 15th month is fun and tiring.… I can’t wait to see what his 16th month brings us!
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