14 month Summary

We’ve got a 14 month old on our hands now.  Even though he’s gone through the largest growth spurt of his life – the first year – every month brings lots of new things!

Here’s both my boys at 14 months!

EATING:

Amos has become a little bit of a pickier eater these days.  His pickiness comes in the form of loving a peanut and butter sandwich one day and refusing to eat it the next.  He still eats most things, I just have to catch him on the right day.  The only main change to his diet is introducing peanut butter, and he is finally starting to like sweets.

PLAYING:

Amos has loved balls and saying ball or balloon for a while now, but I would say this month he has been obsessed with them.  A balloon can entertain him for quite some time.  I’ve stored up a few in the car for extra long car rides.  Amos will even run to me with a book that he’s found a ball in and repeat “Ball, ball” over and over again.  He’s obsessed.  He’s doing such a better job playing with other kids and sharing toys.  He has his moments, but I see large improvement from this time last month.  It really helps that he has daily practice.

His other awesome trick is picking up his toys.  For a few weeks, we’ve been working on it together and just the other day, he picked up his toys without me even saying anything.  It was too cute.  After he was done, he went over to his blue chair and kicked back as if relaxing.

I can't forget to mention Amos' fascination with his belly button.  Its the only body part that he will consistently point to when asked.  Poor guy can barely find the thing though because his belly is so big!

He is also started to like to crawl up on things.  He wasn't too interested in it until Asher came over and showed him how it was done!  I'll catch them like this quite often.

PERSONALITY:

One big change this month is that Amos gets excited about things and starts laughing and waving his arms up and down.  The main things he gets excited about are drinking his milk, putting on his shoes, going outside, eating, and from time to time, change his clothes.

Early this month, Amos started giving kisses to his stuffed animals, which has since changed to him giving kisses to Daddy and Mommy.  He doesn’t give them every time we ask, but giving them at all is a BIG improvement.  He’s actually become a little more lovey these days.

COMMUNICATION:

Amos still carries on mainly to himself, but is trying to interact with us more and more vocally.  He is becoming a very good mimicker and will repeat words we say.  His favorite animal sound to make is a dog, but he moos pretty good too!  He’s got Asher’s name down pat, so we hope he’ll pick up Little Brothers too, whenever we decide what it is, that is. 

DISCIPLINE:

We’re still at it.  One thing I’ve noticed is that he seems to mind better when we are somewhere other than our own house!  I guess that’s a good thing!  Something I’ve been working on is being consistent with him following through with commands I give him.  For instance, he used to throw his milk on the ground when he was done taking a drink.  Because none of our sippys are completely spill proof, I didn’t want milk spilling everyone and began asking him to give me his milk.  Sometimes he would, sometimes he wouldn’t.  Sometimes I would be lazy and let him get away with not giving me his milk.  Lately though, I’ve tried the whole being consistent thing and actually getting up and walking him through the motions if he chooses not to do it on his own.  And I’m finally beginning to see some fruit from my labor.

His "Is Mom watching?" face

SLEEP:

Still a great sleeper although it seems like he may be getting ready to drop his first nap.  I’m really hoping that’s not the case, as I would love for him to keep it until Little Brother comes along.  However, he normally only has one good nap a day.  He still takes two, but one of his naps, he ends up spending more time playing in his crib than sleeping.  One Sundays, he never gets a morning nap and has been taking close to a 3 hour afternoon nap.  I think only time will tell when he’s ready.

SPECIAL EVENTS:

The olympics were a fun part of the beginning of this month.  Up until they started Amos had watched very limited TV, but with them only happening every 4 years, we through our no TV watching rule out the window for two weeks and had it going practically 24/7.  Surprisingly he was hardly interested it the them, he'll be ready to fully experience them the next go around.

OUR SCHEDULE:

7:30 - Wake up and eat breakfast

8:15 – Activity with Mommy and Asher

9:30 - Morning nap

11:45 - Lunch

12:15 – Independent playtime

1:45 - Afternoon Nap

4:00 - Daddy Time

5:30 -Dinner

7:30 - Bed time