March Milestones

Someone this past weekend asked me if Jordan was sleeping through the night. It occured to me that while I have been including a lot of videos lately, I haven't been updating about some of the little milestones associated with a little baby. So anyway let me start by saying that yes, he usually sleeps though the night. About once or twice a week he wakes up in the middle of the night but we usually try to let him cry himself back to sleep. His bedtime is 8pm and he usually wakes up around 6:30 am. It's really adorable because we usually bring him into our bedroom to get dressed so he lets out a little cry to let us know he's up, we walk over to his room to get him, and once he sees us he'll pick up either his teddy or his blanket and reach up with his arms.

Feeding him is much easier lately. He is totally without bottles. In fact, we have put them all up and he lives off of food and sippy cups. We are going to try to use regular cups soon, but that will take a few months before he gets that right. He is also 99% done with baby food. The only baby food we use is the baby oatmeal for several reasons. First, you just mix it with milk. When Jordan is hungry, he won't wait 15 minutes for you to cook regular hot cereals. Baby oatmeal you mix with milk (or heavy whipping cream for the xtra calories) and zap it for 30 seconds. Also, he loves the stuff. If he won't eat his oatmeal, it's only because he isn't hungry anymore. The foods he likes are some of the old favorites we all remember. Pork and beans, crackers (saltines, graham, and animal), grilled cheese sandwiches, cheerios, and bananas. He has his four front teeth but right now he is getting in two more on the top and one on the bottom right. The main thing is that because his only has his cutting teeth, he can't chew meat very well and will only eat fish. Very small quantities of any other meat usually end up on the bib after he spits them out. Before you become a parent you are certain you will never try to force a kid to eat a cheeseburger, but he needs to gain another pound just to be on the growth chart for his actual age. Everytime we feed him, he just wants to get taller.

We are mostly done with the pacifier. At bedtime we leave one in the crib but don't give it to him. That's mostly in case he wakes up in the middle of the night. I don't give it to him when I put him down at night. However, I tend to give hime one for a nap still. The main reason is that if you don't force him to take a nap he won't take one but he gets real fussy at about 3pm and stays that way for the rest of the day. He's a real active kid who cares nothing for lying down, and the pacifier does calm him. Any other time he can kiss my butt. He's almost two and it's time to man up! (The mama ali hates when I tell the one year old to man up)

Physically, this kid is the solution to the nation's energy crisis. He walks all day long in the house and won't even sit to play with his toys - he just squats. On Monday he climbed into his stroller. Not a real problem except he was standing in it. We now put the stollers away when we aren't using them. He can get out of the couches and adult beds and he climbs people. If you are sitting on the couch and he wants your attention he won't ask. He will just climb up into your lap and demand it. He is just like his cousin Ariel. We do try to explain to him that that is not the right behavior and he needs to wait for permissison. However, just between us I love it. When your son climbs on your lap to watch TV with you and he can't understand the words, but he just wants to hang out with his old man....that is the true meaning of life.