At one year, it seems like Jesse is learning something new everyday. I am amazed at how much babies change and learn in just the first year. It is so fun to watch him explore the world around him and experience new things. Here are some highlights of the past month:
- Jesse still seems pretty content to just crawl and cruise around the furniture, but there have been a number of times when he has looked like he is just about to take off and start walking. He also really loves to 'walk' all over the place on his knees. He will occasionally stand on his own, but he doesn't like it when we try to get him to do it. He has also taken a couple steps from James' arms to the couch (where his rubber ducky was waiting for him).
- Jesse has become a better eater over the past month, but it's not unusual for him to pretty much refuse to eat a meal here and there. He almost always eats a good breakfast and lunch, but dinner can go either way. He is still nursing five times a day, but I'm working on cutting one of those out and replacing it with a snack (the mid to late afternoon feeding). Some new foods this month have been chicken, beef pot roast, beans, watermelon, grapes, fish (but he didn't react too favorably to it), and a donut hole (compliments of Dada for his birthday). He has also shown an increased interest in veggies (yay!). Several times he has eaten green beans, sweet potatoes, sweet peas and broccoli and seemed to enjoy it. He pretty much just feeds himself everything, unless I am giving him yogurt, oatmeal or applesauce.
- I have tried giving him whole milk in the sippy cup several times recently. He really seemed to like it the first time, but sometimes he makes faces and doesn't want it. I am hoping the transition won't be too difficult for him or me. At this point I have to hold the sippy cup while he drinks out of it, because if I just give it to him it is immediately thrown very forcefully to the ground.
- While we were in Fayetteville over the break Jesse really began to say some words. When we got back he probably had 5 or so words in his vocabulary, and now we have counted 16. Of course, some of these words he uses a lot, and others he has only said several times. Here's the running list: Mama, Dada, Pop (my Dad), nana (banana), mil and mim (milk), mum-mum, baa, roar (what the lion says), door, dog, gir-uh (giraffe), brrr (as in, it's cold), bye, ree (read), and baby. He may or may not have tried to say rhinoceros (cerus) and he does make a snuffing sound for the rhinoceros, but I don't count this as a word, even though James does.
- He understands lots of words and simple commands and questions (e.g. find the lion, where is Jesse's ear, etc.).
- Jesse really loves his books, even though it's hard to get him to sit still for an entire book most of the time. Just the other day he started bringing me books to read to him. I didn't know if that's what he wanted at first, but he brought me one book and stood by the couch as I read the entire thing. Then I asked him to go get me another book to read and he did. He kept doing this until we had looked at nearly half his books (of course, as time went on, he wanted to look at fewer and fewer pages of the books before bringing me a new one). He has been doing this with my parents, too, while they have been here.
- His favorite toy is his Noah's Ark, because he loves opening and shutting the door and putting the animals in and taking them out. A week or so ago, he was really fixated with the lion and carried him around everywhere.
- We think Jesse has officially learned to throw a fit when he doesn't get his way. The baby days are over and the toddler years have arrived. The other night he was in such a foul mood because he only wanted watermelon for dinner, and then James wouldn't let him come in the kitchen while I was cleaning up after dinner. Jesse was crawling towards the kitchen, and all James did was sit down in his way so that he couldn't get in, and he just lost it. This guy can have some major attitudes and opinions. I can already tell that this stage will be very exhausting at times.
- He has two more bottom teeth coming in, making a total of 8 teeth.
And here are some more pictures, just for fun.
I think he looks really sassy in this one, taken on New Year's Day:
but really sweet in this one (just seconds after the previous one):
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