Eating:
Jonah has always been a picky eater, but these last few months we've had some YEAHS! and some NAYS! He was getting better at least using the fork, but still won't let us feed him. He only uses it once in awhile, and we PRAISE it when it happens, but he doesn't do it often. He likes to eat mainly between meals, snacks are big. We try to limit them, but fall into that trap of "well he didn't eat anything for lunch/etc" He eats great at daycare (usually). We spent the last week over Christmas break not eating anything. It was a long week, but he finally ate some ramen noodles to get him eating again.
He loves popcorn, gerber snacks, and milk. He'll drink a whole gallon a day of milk if we'd let him.
He loves popcorn, gerber snacks, and milk. He'll drink a whole gallon a day of milk if we'd let him.
Sleeping:
He has done a great job with night times for a long time now. We have our routine of bath, books/music, and bed and it works great! It has even worked well as we travel back and forth to Grandma's and such. The only snafu sometimes is having a cd player available to play the music. We don't always have a rocker either, but he's done well with that thus far.
Naps are getting better. He sleeps for 1.5-2 hours regularly at daycare, goes down by rocking and music and they can lay him into his crib no problem. At home we have had a lot of struggles with naps. He fights the rocking and he is super hard to lay down. Laying him down in bed is an absolute failure. So up until today (1/2/11) we have had to hold him in the rocker for the 2 sometimes 3 hrs that he naps. At times this is okay as we sometimes snooze as well, but most the time it is extremely annoying as we have so much we can/could get done with him napping. Today I said, "let's lay down." He ran to the fridge for milk and sat down on my lap with no fuss in the rocking chair. He was out before I got the first book read. After about 10 min in the chair I was able to lay him on a blanket on the living room floor. He woke up a little, but I laid down beside him and rubbed his back. He was out in about 2 minutes. He slept that way for about 45 min before waking up for a short sip of milk and a back rub again before falling asleep again for another 35 minutes or so. :-) Victory for sure, I got a lot done while he was snoozing on his own. :-)
Talking:
He has become quite the chatterbox when he's someplace where he feels comfortable. Sometimes it takes him a good few hours to get warmed up and other times he is yammering on non-stop from the get go. He can say the following words well and in context: horse, go, mom, dad, yes, no, up, all done, bath, book, hat, tacto (tractor), and dog.
He really understands a lot more than he can say, we can ask him questions and he either goes to get what we are asking for or takes us to what he wants. He is quite the yammerer, he'll jabber on about all kinds of things with a silly smile on his face the whole time.
Playing:
He LOVES to ride his rocking horse and wear his cowboy hat while doing so. He loves to climb and has been locked out of the bathroom due to climbing on toilet to get to the counter. He loves to chase after the dog or at least yell at her and be SO excited! He won't pet her, but loves to have her near. He plays with many toys, but loves the ones that make music. He dances all over and whenever any kind of music comes on (commercials on tv, radio, toys, phone ringers, etc).
I'm sure I've forgotten SO Much and I'll be posting some Christmas stuff soon. I am really sad that I have let this go. I just don't have that much time anymore since he is such a mover. We always need to keep an eye on him and interact with him so much more. I'd much rather spend some quality time with Jonah than typing on the computer. Besides, he's obsessed with this thing, he would always want to help and be much more of a hinderance. :-)
More to come,
Kim
