At his 12 month check-up just this morning- he weighed 19 lbs and 10oz and was 29 inches long. He was in between the 50th and 25th percentile for his height and down in between the 25th and 10th percentile for his weight. The doctor was not concerned and actually looked up Amelia's records because he thought Amelia had the same pattern. Amelia had the exact same pattern- at this point she had dropped down in the percentile for her weight. So the Doc wasn't worried- Luke passed all the other 'tests' with flying colors!
Luke is wearing size 12 month and some size 18month. We just broke out the 18 month pajamas and long-sleeve shirts. He still fits just fine in his 12 month shirts but since we have a few 18 month I wanted him to wear them before spring comes. His 12 month pants fit him well so I doubt we will need any 18 month pants. We are just about to move him up to size 4 diapers. He is wearing a size 3.5 or 4 shoe (the 4's are a little big but we only have one pair that's a 3.5).
Luke LOVES to stand! He will grab onto our hands and then let go- and grin and laugh while he stands until he looses balance and has to grab onto our hands again. It's like a game to him- to see how long he can stand. He actually took his FIRST STEPS on January 8th! We haven't been able to get him to take any steps since then.
Teeth- The tooth on each side of his middle upper teeth are both completely come through and he is starting to get the tooth on the lower right of his middle teeth. So now he has 4 on top and two on bottom with one on the way!
Talking: lots of babbling and boy noises, Dan has heard him say "I do it"; so far then he has said: mama, dada, eat, oh no, and I do it.
Luke LOVES bath time- he loves to crawl all over tub; he will pull himself up and then go back down. He loves to splash and doesn't mind the water getting in his face.
Eating: Luke has finally figured out how to put food in his mouth! About 2 weeks ago it just clicked I guess. Mommy gave him some of her favorite baked white cheddar cheetos and he LOVES them. The small stick like shape makes it easy for him to pick up and get in his mouth and they dissolve pretty easily. Plus he loves the flavor- he doesn't like any of the normal 'toddler' foods. This boy just wants regular food. After discovering the cheetos he took off putting all kinds of other foods in his mouth. He especially loves mac and cheese, vanilla wafers, and any meat. He has had pizza, spaghetti, any kind of pasta, hotdogs, and chicken nuggets. He will pretty much eat whatever we are eating! Just in the past couple of days he has been whining more while eating baby food- but just fine when he get the finger foods. So we are going to transition him over to mostly finger foods :) So proud that he went from not putting anything in his mouth to now ONLY wanting finger foods!
Sleeping: Luke is a great sleeper- he goes to bed around 8:30 and gets up in the morning around 7or 7:30. He takes a 30 min to 1hour nap in the morning (when we are home) and usually takes a nice 2 hour nap in the afternoon.
Favorite toys: pulling up on his jumperoo to play with a spinning toy, his singing mirror, little workbench, car steering wheel, playing in Amelia's little kitchen opening and closing the doors
Other achievements:
- when you ask Luke to give you a kiss he will lean in and plop a slobbery open mouth on your cheek
- Luke is such a snuggle bug- he loves to snuggle in when he is sleepy or doesn't feel well
-understand several phrases: time for a bath, time to take a nap, let's go upstairs
-seems to really study how things work- loves to open and close doors, he doesn't care yet what is behind the door just the process of opening and closing the door
- understands when we use hand signs for milk, all done, and more- he does not use the signs but he seems to understand what they mean when we use them
