16 months

Not much has changed lately other than a few new teeth! We just got our first 2 molars. Poor baby doesn't get a break with teeth coming in. He always runs a high temp and is not himself for a few days. These two came about a week apart so we have had a rough time lately! He won't eat much anymore either. He used to eat whatever we were eating and it was great. I'm trying to stick to my guns and not make him separate meals. So if he doesn't eat what I cook, at least some of it, then he usually gets milk and gets down. I refuse to start this picky eating thing, his dad is bad enough! Tonight he would not let me put mac and cheese in his mouth. He was screaming and hitting and yelling no! So, I just put a big glob of it on his tray and said chicken and he ate it right up. For some reason he will eat anything we call chicken, haha. I don't know how long our little trick will last!

He can talk so well I am so proud :) He also knows a lot of animals and their sounds along with belly, nose, ears, eyes, teeth, and feet on his body. I forgot to post his stats when he went to his 15 month check up. He was still in the 90% for both height and weight. He definitely seems to be slimming out though. Height he was 32.5 inches and weight he was 26.8 pounds. Doctor R was very impressed with his vocabulary too.

Favorites at 16 months:
Food: cheese
Show: Elmo!!!!!!
Word: Deer and Elmo, which are the 2 things he always wants to watch on TV too
Favorite thing to do:  read books! He will sit for HOURS!
Drink: juice which is actually mostly water with some apple juice in it
Toy: Elmo or his books

Bed time has been 7:30 lately. I don't know why he has been crabby a little earlier and wanted bed without his sippy lately! So, I think he is breaking himself of this habit! I couldn't have asked for a better night time routine. We literally lay him down and he rolls over and goes to sleep until about 7:30-8 in the morning. So blessed!

So blessed with this little spunky personality! I hope he starts to eat better again soon! I miss my little garbage disposal of an eater :)

15 Months

Another month has gone by and our little toddler just keeps growing. His next appointment is in a few weeks so I'll update on size then. He is still wearing 18-24 months mostly in pants and shirts. As far as naps go I think he may be trying to narrow down to 1. Some days he will take 2 good naps and other days he will just scream during his afternoon nap and not want to go down. So, we may be on our way to 1 nap... we'll see! If he does, I'm going to try and get it to be an afternoon nap. I'm not sure if I'm ready for that yet! He's always been such a good sleeper/napper.

His vocabulary continues to expand. I'll try and name all the words he can say, although I know I'll probably miss quite a few!

Mama
Dada
Please
Ouch
Uh oh
beep beep
hot
mmmmm
num nums(food)
Thank you
No No
Down
This
Pizza
Juice
Dog and woof
Horsey and neigh
--can make monkey noises ha
Deer
Night Night
bath
bath tub
papa
ball
balloon
chicken (chickey)
bull
cow and moooo
shoes
yes
bottle (although he hasn't had one in 3 months he calls his milk sippy a baba)
jump
stop it
don't
tractor
mah maw (what he calls all his grandmas)
bus
bye bye
hi
dance
brush
Brynlee  (this is his gf, haha he calls her min-wee)
spoon

and pretty much anything we say he will repeat

He can point to his belly and his toes, and sometimes his nose
He can follow directions like "bring me your shoes". He knows what lots of things are even though he may not be able to say complex words... for example all his toys were laying out and there was a cucumber laying in the middle of them and I said "bring me the cucumber" and he was able to pick it out from all the toys!
He usually tells us when he is tired by saying night night and lays his head down on something.
He is becoming mister independent and wants to use a spoon or a fork to feed himself now. He doesn't like to let us feed him :( such a big boy!

We have one smart little guy! We can't wait to help him learn more and see him grow!

14 months

At 14 months Hunter is growing like a weed. Not sure on any measurements though. He has quite the vocabulary still! He amazes me with his words! He can pretty much say anything and I've lost track of how many words he has. I'd say it somewhere around 50+. He's learning animals and their sounds and its adorable! I walked in to check on him the other morning when I woke up and he was talking in his sleep saying "no no" and "mine" haha... hard telling what that dream was about! He has been sleeping like a little teenager lately! It is rare if he is up before 8:30! I'm usually up when Jared goes to work and patiently waiting little guy to get up with me!

I have to go back to work next week :( I'm already looking forward to Christmas vacation and summer vacation next year, ha! I'm hoping this year goes by quickly! We sure are enjoying our big boy! We took him to the fair last night and had so much fun showing him the food, animals, and the rides of course. I can't wait until he can really enjoy the rides by himself. This year mom had to ride with him. He kept saying "weeeee". It was so cute!

 

Before school starts back up dad wanted to take the kids and grand kids to Grant's Farm. So we planned it and headed there with the whole clan minus the husbands. It was a great day and the boys all loved the animals! Can't wait to do more fun things with his cousins when they get older!

 

13 months

We have had quite a few play dates with Miss Brynlee this summer. Her momma and I have become quite good friends and we go walking twice a week with the strollers. Then usually after we walk to decide to meet up later and get some pool time in or do some pinterest crafts. I have enjoyed it very much! I will be so sad when I have to go back to working 5 days a week and don't get to see them as much anymore!

 

Hunter has also had a play date with my friend from Windsor, Stephanie and her daughter Wren. They came over the other day and brought a yummy lunch and then the babes played with Hunter's toys for awhile. We may try the park or Wren's house next time!

 

Hunter and I snuggling before church one morning <3

 

Hunter and his daddy being boys!

 

Hunter has also enjoyed playing with his cousins more this summer!

 

I can't believe how smart our little guy is! He has just taken off with walking and talking within the last 4 weeks! He knows so many words and he can basically run now. He went from being afraid to walk to just one day letting go and now he has no fears. He has a little bus toy that he climbs on and it has a slide. He is a little dare devil on that thing! He climbs up it by himself, goes down the slide head first, lets go and pushes himself down under the seat to get down... its crazy. I think he is a monkey!

At 13 months Hunter can SAY:

dada
ball (sometimes he says "the ball" haha)
down
deer
dog
hi
buh bye
mama (although not very often...)
no
mmmmm and num num (which he says when he is hungry)
juice
more
baba
papa
bus
stop it

He has quite the vocabulary for a 1 year old! Our doctor told us by 15 months he should be saying 3 words, haha. I think we are going to have a talker on our hands!

Is back to 2 naps... the 1 nap thing is only if he happens to sleep in till 9-10 in the morning. But his sleeping is back to 8pm-7am so usually 2 naps are still necessary!

He has also started hitting already. If you try and take him from mom or dad when he doesn't want to be taken, he might smack you. You have our permission to smack his little hand. We want to stop this habbit quickly! Little turd doesn't seem to care when we smack his hand either!

He can also be so sweet! He blows kisses quite well and when I say I love you that is usually his response is to blow kisses or go in for kisses. Love it! Nothing sweeter than baby kisses!

Currently his favorite tv show is giggle bellies. We have a few of their dvds and that is my saving grace for taking a shower or getting ready while he's up! He sits in the high chair and watches this show so intently!

He still has just 6 teeth but will eat anything. I found some Oscar Meyer Selects Chicken hot dogs that aren't really the crappy hot dogs most are... they are just chicken meat, no nitrates or anything. But that is how I have been getting him to eat meat lately. Besides lunch meat and those chicken hot dogs, he doesn't chew meat well. Other than that, he is a piggy and eats anything in sight. He will keep saying "mmmmm" to get more until you stop, haha.

He currently wears size 18 month clothes, some of his shirts are 18-24 months, size 5 diapers, size 4 shoe.

Before he was a year old he army crawled everywhere. He would only get up on all 4's when he was crawling on concrete or grass. I think the texture hurt his legs when they were dragging. So we rarely ever saw him up on all four legs. Well now that he can walk, he also crawls regularly too. I think he was actually faster army crawling, haha!

With a birthday comes...

Hunter recently had his first birthday! We had so much fun planning and celebrating our baby boy's first year with us! His party was a success! I'm so glad he was born in the summer so we can have fun cook out birthday parties or future swim parties with his friends :)

We had a mickey party for Hunter at the park pavilion. What a great turn out we had!

 

We had Lydia take these photos for us!

 

We have noticed quite a few changes after Hunter's birthday! The attitude is getting more noticeable, but it's nothing we can't handle! He has also been saying so many new words! He now says deer quite well along with juice. Actually if we give him milk he will quickly throw it and say juice to let us know what he wants. I absolutely love that he is talking more! He seems like such a smartie already!

As far as walking, he finally got brave enough and lets go of things, yay! I don't know why I was so anxious for him to walk because he is quite the nosy little fella and into everything! This stage is so fun though he has such a personality!

 

I love who this little boy is becoming! His little kisses are just the best!

Happy Birthday Hunter!

Thanks to Lydia at Candids by Lydia for capturing a few shots for Hunter's first birthday session!

 

Is it even possible that this little butter ball is 1 year old today?!

 

I am so glad I took the time to take a picture each month so I can really see just how much he has grown! I know there is a huge difference between month 2 and 3. I'll never forget the first time someone told me he was "so big". I was not used to hearing that since he was only 6'13" when he was born! I can see here that he developed some chub at 3 months! He also got HUGE at 6 months! I think from then on out his hair really started to grow too! He got his first hair cut after that horrid 10 month picture, ha ha. He has had several since then, too!

 

At 1 year old Hunter you have quite the highlight list!

-says mama, dada, ball (boh), dog (doh), bottle (bob), whoa, stop it (yes he says a phrase!)

-I think we have a talker on our hands.. he jabbers all day long and still whispers too!

-can stand on your own and can walk!

-You are hesitant to let go of something and walk on your own still, but if we set you down you will walk to the other person or walk across the room quite well!-

-is getting moved to size 5 diapers real soon because you are starting to leak in 4's. Lets hope you stay in 5's till you are potty trained! (with each diaper size you move up...you get less!)

-wearing size 18 month clothes

-wearing size 3-4 shoe

-has a brand new sleeping schedule! 9pm-9am is your norm now with just one nap during the day usually from about noon-3... or if we have to go somewhere you will take 2 smaller naps

-gets one bottle at bed time and that's it! I'm so glad we have you almost completely weaned off bottles! This mama has been washing them by hand from day 3 (when you started formula)!

-loves to dance! It's pretty adorable the way you bounce up and down and kind of do this little head banging thing to the music, haha

-can go from laying down to sitting up

-You will still eat veggies as long as I put a little salt and pepper on them... guess you like flavor like the rest of us!

-can eat anything we eat even though you still only have 6 teeth

-finally has your car seat turned around and you love looking at us!

You weigh 25 pounds and are 32 inches long! You have remained in the 99 percentile for height and 90th for weight!

 

 

Happy Birthday Hunter!!!

11 months!

Hunter is  just a few days past 11 months old now! Its hard to believe in less than a month we will be celebrating his birthday!

At 11 months old Hunter...

- has had his first hair cut... this was done by his momma! I'm not a keeper or a hoarder by any means so no, I did not keep a lock of his hair. I have plenty of pictures to help me remember what color it was, haha. Don't get me wrong, I have many pictures for his baby book, but hair is just one of those things I don't plan on keeping!

-is so close to walking! He is getting brave and letting go of us or the couch and has had a few falls because of it! He likes to go from the couch to his toy box which is a step or two and he has fallen a few times... it scares me every time he hits his little head on that hard wood floor!

-pulls up on anything and everything! He will find the smallest little nook or crannie to pull up on, including a poster on a wall!

-Eats all table food and isn't really picky.

-has 6 teeth that are completely through (4 top, 2 bottom)

-We have been struggleing with ear infections and allergies for a long time now. I got Hunter up last week and it looked like his eyes were still closed. They were so swollen! I took him to the doctor thinking he was allergic to something he ate or drank. She just confirmed he had really bad seasonal allergies though. So, she prescribed yet another medication for him. This would make him on 4 allergy medicines. I hated that! So, I decided to try something all natural. Genesis Pure has a Mangosteen product that is a natural antihistamine and anti-inflamitory! It has worked wonders on our little guy, and myself! He is now off all 4 medicines and strictly on the pure mangosteen. YAY! When school lets out I plan on taking him to the chiropractor for his ears as well. Maybe she can help us out in that department becuase poor little guy has had yet another ear infection!

-Wears size 4 diapers
-Weighs 24.4 pounds
-30" long
-Wears 18 month clothes
-Has the cutest little voice and loves to say "buh dub a dub" and "buh jew buh jew" along with mama, dada, and bye bye
-If you say "bye bye" he now instantly waves
-If you say paddy cake he instantly starts clapping.. such a smart boy!
-doesn't know what NO means yet.. but we are working on that! I told him no a few times on Saturday when hew as into the DVD's .. I tried slapping his hand and saying no but he just smiled at me!
-loves his mom and dad and prefers them over anyone :) But is still so friendly he will not cry when he goes to other people
-He is still taking 3 bottles a day but I think we are about to get rid of the morning and afternoon bottles! He drinks all whole milk now! (We tried almond milk for a few days and I honestly think it gave him really really bad diarhhea!)
-takes 2 naps still... morning nap is usually 1-2 hours and same with afternoon
-wakes up at about 6:45 everyday and goes to bed in a range from 7-8:30 depending on his afternoon nap

We can't wait to celebrate his birthday! We are planning a Mickey party at the park just a few days after his birthday!