Eating Habits: Wants nothing to do with pureed food most days and only wants to feed himself. Loves Cheerios, Gerber Puffs and black beans. Drinking out of a sippy cup and using a straw-sippy cup. Tried egg yolk, frozen mixed veggies, broccoli, brown rice, couscous, meatball, pasta, cranberry sauce, pancakes, peas and carrots.
Motor Skills: Crawling quickly to go longer distances, pulls up on walls, soft furniture or people to standing, cruising along walls and furniture usually with a toy in one hand. He's started to place the stacking cups within each other and can grab just one lego or stacking cup off the towers we build for him. He's also learned to use tools. He can use the mallet to hit on the pound-a-peg, the xylophone or drum. Walks behind is rolling dinosaur just hasn't learned to steer or that you can't walk through walls.
Sleeping Habits: Wakes up about once a night, some nights sleeping straight until 6am, but wakes up more often when he was getting his top two teeth in or had a cold. Goes to bed between 9:30 and 10:30 after he nurses and Jason reads us Lord of the Rings (almost done ~900 pages so far) and gets up between 7 and 8:30am. Ideally takes two naps a day, morning nap about 2 hours after he gets up, and afternoon nap either in the car while we run errands or 4 hours after our morning nap.
Speech: Nearly everything is da da da or ba ba ba, but at the end of the month he started with ma ma ma or mum mum mum.
Other: Mommy-clinginess, shy of strangers, must study people before smiling at them (ongoing)
