Liam is 13.5 Months

Liam is starting to look less and less like a baby, and more like a little boy.  He's starting to have a bit of an attitude lately, mostly when it comes to eating.  Although now that we are transitioning from his baby food to big people food, he tends to be more agreeable.  It surprises us the types of food that he likes.  He eats (and likes) bell peppers and onions!!  And he really likes hummus.  Now that he has some molars he chews a lot better now, and we are more comfortable feeding him.  He really enjoys graham crackers and goldfish crackers too.  His favorite food is still cheese and cottage cheese and he will now say 'Mmmmm' when we get it out of the fridge.  He tends to point at the food if he wants more, and will cry a bit if we aren't getting it fast enough.  We are teaching him the sign and word for 'more', so that he won't get frustrated when he wants something.  He started to get part of the sign down, and we are pretty sure he said 'more' a few times too. He is starting to climb onto stuff now.  We showed him how to climb onto his riding train, and now he gets on and off all by himself.  He knows how to crawl up the stairs, but is not so good crawling back down, he wants to stand and go down that way, but he's not big enough to do that, so we have to be really careful when he's around stairs.  One cute thing he started doing a while back that I'm sure I mentioned is he will 'Roar' when he sees a picture of a lion or tiger.  His favorite word lately has been 'Uh-oh'.  I saw him trying to open our door knob the other day, and I said 'Uh-oh', and I think he was concentrating so hard that I scared him, and he started to cry.  His other cute thing he's been doing lately is singing to us.  He will start with a sound and either go up or down.  Over the weekend he decided that he did not want his afternoon nap, so we are thinking he might be going to one nap a day soon.  When he doesn't have a 2nd nap he tends to be a little more tired in the evening which makes him more cuddly.  He will sit on our lap and hang out for a while. It's a rare treat for us, since he's usually such a busy body!

Liam is 13 Months

Liam's walking has improved a lot in the past month, and he walks pretty quickly and is even starting to run.  It's so second nature to him now, that sometimes he doesn't watch where he's going.  We decided it was time to get him some shoes, and found a cute pair of Nike's.  We expected that he would be pretty wobbly learning to walk with shoes, but he surprised us a bit how quickly he learned.  Another new item we needed to purchase when he turned one was a new car seat.  Mike did some research on a safe seat, and it came down to the Britax and the Recaro.  Both are well made and safe.  Recaro is a new brand for baby car seats, but are well known for making seats for racing cars.  We ended up buying the Recaro, and so far we really like it.

 

It's so cute how much of a 'boy' he is.  He likes to throw stuff, and has a pretty strong arm too.  He is also starting to roll his cars along making the 'Vroom, Vroom' car sounds.  His favorite word lately is 'No'.  He usually says it if he's mad or upset.  One habit he is learning that isn't so fun is he is starting to throw tantrums, and whine when he's upset.  Although to be fair to him, he's also starting to cut his molars, so that could be part of it.

 

His chewing has improved quite a bit lately.  He doesn't gag near as often as he used to, and that makes feeding him certain things a lot easier.  He really loves cheese, and cottage cheese.  And lets us know if he really loves something by going 'MMmmmmm'.  Although, if he doesn't like something, it makes feeding him really frustrating.  He will hold it in his mouth, or turn away and cry or whine.  We usually will have to mix something else he likes with it to get him to finish it.

 

Both Mike and I had a some time off for Christmas.  We spent a lot of time with Liam, which was fun.  This year was his 2nd Christmas.  I actually put up the tree this year!  He got a lot of toys for his birthday which added to the plenty he already had, so we decided to get him mostly books, and a couple of toys for Christmas.  His attention span is all of 5 minutes, if we are lucky, so it worked out good.