At one year old...
-Isaiah weighs 21.6 lbs (weighed on our digital scale).
-He's only 29.5 inches tall, but that was with him standing up and I'm sure he wasn't totally straight, so it's possible he's a little taller. Still, that's 2 inches shorter than Noah was at this same age.
-His head is 19 inches around, which I believe is exactly what they hope a child's head circumference is at 12 months old.
-He finally got teeth around.. eek, I'm kind of forgetting here. Okay I just checked pictures and it was around 9.5 months. I know it was definitely after we moved, and we moved when he was 9 months and one week old.
-He is not a good teether. With Noah we hardly ever knew he was teething. Seriously, even molars, they just appeared. No distress, no nothing. With Isaiah? His gums swell and bruise, he gets blood blisters where the tooth is trying to come through... He even had a hanging flap of skin when his top left tooth was cutting. It was horrid. And of course he's cranky from all that - who wouldn't be?
-He got 6 teeth pretty much one right after the other between about 9.5 and 10 months - the top four and the bottom two. He hasn't gotten any since, but he's started teething again just int he past week. His bottom lateral incisors and his top cuspids seem to be on the move. I can't tell what will be first.
-Oddly, his first tooth was the top left lateral incisor (I had to look up what it was called... it's the tooth next to the top middle teeth).
-He started walking just before his birthday. Literally, in the week leading up to the big day it was like he knew it was coming and was determined to be "walking" before he turned 1. I thought it would happen after his birthday but he suddenly made big leaps and bounds in that one week, and he is a walker! He probably spends equal amount of time walking and crawling right now, but each day he walks more and more, and he really enjoys himself while he's doing it. You should see the little stinker smile he has the whole time he's toddling around.
-He doesn't eat ANYTHING. He is still exclusively breastfed. We do baby led weaning and started giving him things to taste at about 9.5 months. This is how that went:
This was actually his very first taste of something and it was strawberry. He kept licking it and then making lemon-tasting type faces. It was very amusing. In general he really enjoys tasting things, but he will not swallow anything unless it's by accident (and then he chokes and gags it down). I don't do the puree thing but I have tried giving him pureed food a time or two, and while he's fine with tasting it, he pushes it right back out of his mouth. It actually seems that he hasn't lost the tongue-thrust reflex yet.
-He also doesn't drink from a cup or bottle or anything. I am literally his only source of nutrition. But hey, he more than tripled his birth weight and he is a really healthy baby (waaaay healthier than Noah as a baby) who has only been sick 3 or 4 times in his year of life (pretty sure Noah was sick like 13 times in his first year of life). So there you go.
-After learning that breastfeeding is his only source of nutrition, it probably doesn't surprise anyone that he's up 3-6 times each night nursing. Blaaah. One day this will all be a distant memory...
-We cosleep, of course.
-We still babywear for hours each day. Isaiah has finally been in a stroller (once) when Noah wanted him to go in one. He thought it was like an amusement park ride and shrieked and cried every time we stopped moving. He did the same thing when I took him and Noah on a wagon ride. And the few times I've sat him in a grocery cart next to Noah (just for a short time during the grocery trip because Noah was asking for Isaiah to be next to him), he's gotten so hyper and excited. It's funny how these things are novel experiences for him.
-Isaiah's favourite toy is... anything Noah is playing with. And vice versa. Really though, Isaiah really likes anything big that he can push around. Walkers, bikes, ride ons, brooms, whatever.
Okay, it's 9pm and I have a doozy of a cold (I basically haven't been sick since Christmas so I shouldn't complain), so I want to go to bed. First, a few pictures of the cutie...
9.5 months:
This is on his 10 month "birthday"... I can see 5 of his 6 teeth, which is how I knew he got them all between 9.5 and 10 months. Otherwise I honestly wouldn't have remembered.
Just a few days before he turned 11 months old:
About a week before turning one:
Hahaha....
The day before his birthday... he keeps climbing in the warming drawer in my stove!
(don't mind the ugly floor, our kitchen is finally getting reno'd this month!)
Isaiah's 1st Birthday!!:
I liked the little smile he had once he realized what this present was:
"Noah, back off!"
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