Here is what Cole is up to at 12 months:
- He's walking most everywhere now. We still see the butt-up bear crawl often, but it's just because he's so dang fast that way and he knows it!
- He still eats anything and everything. Loves all fruit, meat, potatoes, cheese, bread, beans, most veggies. He's a little foodie!
- His other bottom tooth cut through on his 1st birthday, she he officially has two teeth now. About the only thing he doesn't eat a ton of at the moment is snack type stuff (crackers, goldfish, chips, etc). Although he'd really love to, we just haven't ventured there too much yet given that he can't chew up things like that so well. But Dr. Nail says his 4 front teeth on top are very close. so he'll have a mouth full of chompers soon, and then nothing will be off limits!
- He drinks water from a straw cup, and still takes breast milk from a bottle. I just weaned him officially this week, and that went fine. He did just like Carter and Ella where he sort of started self-weaning around 10 months old, so its been a slow and easy process to quit nursing. We'll start him on whole milk sometime in the next month when my freezer stash runs out. Hopefully that will go smooth, too, and then after that it will be bye-bye botttle! One thing at a time!!
- Favorite toys and activities are his new little ride on car and cozy coupe car, any and all balls and/or balloons filled with air. He will throw and kick and grab and chase them all over the house. He loves to climb through and under our dining table and benches in the breakfast area, climb on the fireplace hearth, climb on step stools, climb the stairs (seeing a trend here?!), loves to swing at the park and just explore and get into things in general. He recently discovered the trash can in the kitchen and the toilet paper rolls in the bathrooms. He hasn't made too bad of a mess yet with those things, but I know it's coming! He loves to be tickled and chased, and rough housed with by any of us. Even Carter and Ella can get him giggling by doing that. He's just a happy boy who loves to play, and loves us all. Loves to play peekaboo, dance, and listen to music or watch music videos with the big kids.
- A few words we've heard him say a lot that are now being associated correctly are Mama, Dada, ball, dog and I swear he even said Ella the other day! Sounded like "ewa." So cute and sweet!
- He still takes an AM nap and a PM nap, although a couple of times he has just gone with one mid-day nap. I'll probably try to transition him over to one nap in the next couple of months.
I snapped some pictures of Cole real quick in the backyard one evening, just to have out for Cole's birthday party, and wanted to post my favorites here. He turned it on big time for about 5 minutes, and I got so many adorable shots of him! Love, love, love this BIG boy!
