The Florida Belts

It’s the end of life as we know it…Logan is now mobile.  He started out just doing the army crawl on his belly over the Christmas holiday, but now he is crawling like a champ.  He’s also much better at getting from the crawling position back to sitting.  He still LOVES Wrigley and now that he can move, he often crawls after her and tries to grab her fur.  Wrigley has been being a great sport and typically will either just lick Logan, or get up and walk away.

Christmas Weekend

Logan enjoyed his first Christmas at his grandparents house in Jacksonville, he even got to meet his Great Grandma and Grandpa from Indiana as well!  He didn’t really understand the whole presents concept, but he was a very good boy while we all opened gifts.  He has really enjoyed playing with all his new toys!

I don’t have any official weight or height statistics this month, but he’s now wearing 18 month sized clothes.  Some 12 month clothes will fit him, but I’m finding more and more 12 month clothes are either too short or just too tight.  This cold streak has put us in long sleeved shirts, sweaters, pants/jeans, and jackets.  We’re very thankful to our family in Chicago and Minneapolis who have sent us boxes of hand me down clothes!  Us, Floridians, don’t really know what to do once you can see your breath!

Another tooth popped up this month on the bottom left, so now he has 4 on top and 4 on bottom.  He’s been trying all sorts of new foods this month as well.  Some of the new varieties include gerber 2nd foods apple/cherry, apple/blueberry, garden vegetable, sweet potato/corn, mango smoothie, chicken, beef, turkey, and mac & cheese.  I’ve also started him on Gerber 3rd foods, which really just seems to be more per container and a bit thicker consistency, but I have yet to see any actual chunks or anything like that.  His first experience with Baby Mum Mums was sort of comical.  I gave him the Mum Mum and he immediately put it into his mouth and took a bite.  Then he just held the Mum Mum in his hand and sat there crying.  I tried it again the next day, but that time he didn’t even attempt to put it in his mouth, instead he just held on to it and cried.  After that I let him try the Graduates Lil’ Crunchies, and he loves those.  At first he couldn’t figure out how to eat the part of the snack that he was holding in his hand, so he just sort of put his whole hand in his mouth, but now he’s got it down.  I was so happy to find that he seemed to know what to do with the crunchy snacks.  He bit them and then chewed them like a big boy, no choking!

Drinking From a Glass

I started weaning Logan this last month, so he’s now transitioning onto formula.  He seems to be taking it without issue and I don’t think there will be any problem once he is 100% on formula.  He still is very interested in drinking out of a glass, so we started offering him a sippy cup between meals.  He really likes it and has figured out where he needs to put his mouth, but hasn’t figured out that he needs to tilt the cup back to actually get anything out of it.  He’ll get it.

I noticed that this month he is very interested in touch and feel books.  He actually touches and feels the book.  His favorite is Touch and Feel PETS, I’m not sure why, but he’s not as interested in the other ones we have.  His sounds and noises are getting more and more complex.  He’s also practicing his noise volume.  He likes to whisper “HOTA HOTA”, I have no idea what it means, but it must be very profound.  He started performing his early morning sing song routine earlier and earlier, so we have now adjusted his bedtime from 6:00pm to 7:00pm.  Even though it’s just an hour, it’s quite a change in our home routine.  Now we all eat dinner together around 6:00 instead of Wes and I eating after Logan goes to bed.

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