Weight: correction-- he's 19 pounds!
Height: TBD
Eating: With nursing, Caeden is a biter. Micaiah went through a biting phase, but it was mostly just when he was finished. Caeden bites randomly throughout the feed. Hopefully it's just a phase too. He is also at the super distractible phase of nursing. It takes forever for him to nurse if someone else is in the room because he keeps wanting to sit up and talk and interact. Even if no one else is in the room he likes to sit up periodically to look around the room. Even with that, he usually takes around 10 minutes total, which is fairly fast. He nurses at 7:30/11:30/4:00/7:00 or 7:15.
Solids: The kiwi that he slurped down so quickly last month is being left on his tray this month. Bananas are probably his most favorite food now. He will get excited and start to cry for one if he sees one in the fruit bowl and is even remotely hungry. I noticed about a week ago that he has perfected his pincer grasp. Now that he can pick them up, he actually likes peas!
Waketimes: Same as last month--the first waketime is 2 hours, and the second is 2 hours and 15-30 minutes.
Sleeping: 2- 2+ hour naps. You may remember that for the last two months Caeden was waking up between 5:30 and 6 in the mornings instead of 7. We always left him in the crib. Sometimes he would doze, sometimes he would talk to himself; sometimes both. Well we have finally had breakthrough! He is now consistently sleeping until about 7:30. That is what we were waiting for in order to put the boys in the same room. We're looking to move them within the next week or so. I'm excited, but I'm also a bit of a weenie about it, so it's easy to continue coming up with excuses as to why we should put it off.
New discoveries and other notes: Caeden spent his first night alone without mommy and daddy. Scott and I went on a little quiet overnight getaway in the mountains of South Carolina one night after Thanksgiving. The boys stayed with my parents, and aside from Caeden not wanting to take a bottle and taking awhile to settle down for the night, he did great.
He is army crawling like the best of them now. He and Micaiah have this little game where Micaiah goes to the kitchen and rustles the trashbag that hangs out of the trashcan to entice Caeden. Caeden crawls to him just as fast as he can, and then Micaiah runs back to the living room and waits for him to crawl to him again. Poor Caeden. At least he seems to enjoy the game.
He has 6 teeth! They all came in one right after the other pretty much. Micaiah had zero teeth at this age. It's so neat to me to watch how they are so different from things like teeth to personality differences.
Separation anxiety is huge. He is to the point where if he sees me walk by without picking him up he is not a happy camper. If I am in the room but sitting on the couch or in the kitchen, he is crawling to my feet and grabbing at my ankles to get up.
He pulled up for the first time the other day. I was in the kitchen and heard him whimpering. I found him standing up against the tv cabinet. He couldn't figure out how to get down. Maybe I should have investigated the few noises I heard that were our wireless router and digital converter box being pulled off the shelf.
I know this post is getting a little lengthy, but one other exciting thing to mention this month is that Caeden began signing back to us! He signs "more" but he only does it when he wants to, and lately that hasn't been very often. Once he started and we caught on that that was what he was doing, he did it consistently for about a week, and then he decided he'd just pick and choose when he wanted to do it.
Favorite toys: anything Micaiah is playing with. I also cannot describe to you how much he loves wheels. There is a little nook underneath the stairs where we keep our strollers. He will crawl over there and play with the wheels for the longst time. He likes to play Little People with Micaiah, and he lovesthe toy gumball machine.
Notice the lovely spit up on his chin. :)
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