Logan,
In one short month you’ll be a year old and that’s so incredibly hard to believe. We had lots of firsts this month and I’ll try to summarize all of the many things you’re now doing.
You started the month with another cold, being a momma’s boy and having some separation anxiety when I walked out of the room. You seem to have grown out of it for the most part and love the sense of freedom you get from crawling around the house. You started waving hi and bye much more this month and you now shake your head no when we say no. When we take something away from you that you’re not supposed to have or redirect you, you get soooo upset and throw little tantrums! You’ll stiffen out your back, kick your legs and scream. You’ve got quite the ‘tude little man.
You’re officially pulling yourself up to standing on everything; but you first started in the bath tub. You love the different view of things around you now and with this comes new things to explore! You absolutely love crawling to the play room and playing with your brother. You are our little tornado and enjoy throwing everything out of the toy bins, playing with the toilet paper and pulling all of the DVDs out of the entertainment center. You even inspired us to get rid of the majority of our DVDs just so we didn’t have to keep cleaning up the mess! You love pulling on chords, and playing with the carbon monoxide detector- that ended up moving out of your reach because you were totally drawn to it.
When you are tired or want to be picked up, you will crawl over to me and head butt my legs. You also love to head butt your brother and snuggle with stuffed animals. You like to crawl under the coffee table, kitchen chairs and end tables and you end up bumping your head almost every single time in the exact same spot! You had a permanent bruise on the top right of your forehead for weeks.
You still love to feed yourself and have started spitting water out after you take a drink from your sippy cup. You get soaked! You also like to throw your cup or pouch on the ground when you don’t want them anymore, but we’re working on you handing them to us when you no longer want them. So far, it works about 30% of the time. You’re going much longer in between nursing sessions and don’t really want to nurse unless it’s first thing in the morning, going to sleep or in the middle of the night.
You officially have both top teeth in and have the cutest gap that totally changes the way you look. You started grinding your teeth after both teeth came through and it’s the most awful sound ever! I can’t wait until this phase is over.
We celebrated your first Christmas at home with Nama Desiree, Papa Jim, Nama Debbie, Papa Scott, Papa Jeff and Titi Cole. You got a lot of cute clothes and we got you a push car to ride in when we go for walks. You love it! You met Santa for the first time and you were indifferent about him. You didn’t cry, but you weren’t happy about it either.
You say “Dada” all of the time and are trying to say dog. Your version of dog is “dahg dahg”. When you see our cats you will attempt to say cat, but it still sounds a lot like dog. You have yet to say Mama, but that’s okay. It’ll come in time. You’re understanding much more now and when we ask you where the dogs, cats, your cup, light, dad, mom and brother are you will look in the right direction. You’re not that into sitting still to read books and I’m hoping that’ll change in the coming months.
Logan, you are such a busy body and the sweetest soul. While you’re not much of a cuddler, you love to be held and be a part of everything. You’re growing up so fast and I’m trying to soak in every moment since I know we won’t get to experience them again in another baby of our own. Thank you for being mine. I love you sassy pants!
Momma
