already?!
i seriously am having a hard time believing that my once tiny baby is getting so big.
Tucker:
-weighs around 20 pounds and is around 30 inches tall! (I need to actually weigh/measure him so I will update this). He wears 12 month clothes almost exclusively with the exception of some 9 and 18 (!) month things.
-now "talks" up a storm! He has been saying "whoa, whoa, whoa" for a couple months now and speaking gibberish and adding a high pitched "ooooh" at the end. But he started saying "dada" around 7.5 months and it's officially his favorite thing to say. He will also mix it up with some growling, "yaya"'s, "rara"'s, and occasionally he'll kinda say "mama".
-still loves to eat and has started having "bigger" food recently. He loves: frozen apples in a mesh thing we bought, cuties, string cheese, bread, greek yogurt, puffs, bananas, and weird combinations of homemade baby food. hey, if he likes it- i'll make it! He still has bottles, obviously, but now only has around 4 or 5 a day- 5-7 ounces (depending on whether he just ate something) during the day and then 8 at night.
-he is still taking 2 (mostly 2 hour) naps during the day. Depending on when he wakes up, he will get up and have breakfast and then play for an hour or hour and a half and then we will do his naptime routine and i'll put him down. I have really worked hard on sleep training him during the day. It has really been the best thing that I've done for both of us. He is so much happier getting his naps in. So if he wakes up before it's been at least an hour, I won't go in and get him. 99% of the time, he will put himself back to sleep. So it is definitely working for us! And he has been great at sleeping at night too. We try and start his nighttime routine around 8 or 8:30 and get him into bed around 9/9:30. Some nights are later than others. But usually he will sleep at least 10 ish hours and then we start our day. Teething (and he has been sick recently) definitely puts a wrench in schedules and sometimes he will wake up in the early morning hours, but overall he has been handling it very well :) (I'd like to credit his Baltic Amber teething necklace to that. Seriously. I know it sounds crazy, but I really think it works!)
-has recently started "crawling"! I say that loosely because what he is doing looks nothing like a conventional crawl. He hasn't quite figured out how to move his arms with his legs, so usually he ends up catapulting himself forward. But he can suck his knees under and will even do this downward-dog type move that is so silly and funny. But if we get our phone out in front of him and tease him a little, it's enough motivation to get him to move. He doesn't seem to like it very much yet, though. He will grunt and make frustrated noises the whole time until he has the phone in his hands. Super cute.
we love you Tucker boy!
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