Baby Stats - 12 months

Well, what would YOU do while waiting for the doctor to come in?!!

Colton's 1 year check-up

Appointment on: 6/7/2011

Age: 12 months and 22 days old (on date of blog entry)

Weight: 25 lbs. 14 oz. (75th – 90th percentile)

Length: 29 ½ inches (25th – 50th percentile)

Head Circumference: 47 ½ cm {18 ½ inches} (75th – 90th percentile)

Diaper: Size 4 –Pampers brand – Cruisers (during the day) and Pampers Extra Protection Size 4 (at bedtime)

Clothing: Wearing sizes 12-months and 18-months depending on the brand/type of outfit

Formula: NO MORE FORMULA - Whole milk it is! But, he WILL NOT drink it cold…it has to be warmed up. Same with juice…he loves it, but only if it’s warm, go figure?!

Amount: Introducing sippy cup, but he still thinks it’s a play toy…LOL! He's takes approx. four 8 oz. bottles a day with one of those being diluted juice (apple or white grape or pear)

Solid Food: He’s still not real big on texture so while we are introducing more solids, he is still eating Second Foods (#2). So far though, we do know he loves pancakes, biscuits, lima beans, English peas, graham crackers, fruit puffs, yogurt melts, and arrowroot cookies.

Sleeping Habits: Not much change here…He’s been sleeping through the night with an occasional wake up for a bit of bottle, but not very often. He is usually down for the night between 7:30 – 8:30 p.m. He gets anywhere from 10 to 12 hours at a stretch at night. He still takes an early morning nap (lasts anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour), a much longer afternoon nap (2 ½ to 3 hours), an early evening cat nap (about 30 minutes), and then he goes to bed for the night. As far as the tummy sleeping…nope, not his favorite anymore. Now he likes to be on his side or flat on his back.

What He's Doing/How He’s Progressing: We are FINALLY crawling and I mean it! He’s like a little race car once those “fours” get going!! He does not like for you to be out of his sight for a minute and you can hear him tearing up the floor making a bee line toward you, especially if it’s mommy he’s after. He is starting to experience just a twinge of stranger fear. He is reaching to pull himself up, but has not figured out the leg placement yet to make him actually get upright. We are totally convinced he is a little ham! He loves to entertain himself and those around him. He has the cutest laugh too. It sounds like a dolphin…eh, eh, eh, eh, eh! He LOVES music (from a toy, on the radio, on the television, if you sing to him, etc…). Whenever he hears a tune, he thumps his feet on the ground and lifts his hands in the air or grasps them in front of himself and rocks back and forth to the beat/sound! He is absolutely thrilled to sit on the ground and look out the front door (which is completely see-through safety glass). He points to the trees and birds and bugs and just blabs away. He is also a tongue roller! Seriously, this kid can fold his tongue completely in half and twirl it around. Talent I tell you, pure talent! (*see below) He says, “da-da” and “buh, bye” and has just started to say "ma-ma" and a whole plethora of other words that only he knows, but we don’t…LOL! He is still quite the babble baby for sure! He also has an opening of drawers and cabinets fixation so safety latches are now in full force! He does not like the word “no” and if you say it to him, he will look at you with astonishment and give a little grunt and then sometimes he’ll even start to cry…I mean after all, how dare we hurt his feelings?! You can forget about handing him off to someone he doesn't know if you are not within his eyesight. He has discovered how to do the flaps in the lift-a-flap books and squeals with delight when you read those to him and do the flaps. His hair grows out of one cowlick swirling circle in the back of his head which is so cute…hard to tame, but cute nonetheless. He has a total of 8 teeth with two more breaking through on the bottom on each side (the cuspids). The pacifier is still something he gravitates to. It is hysterical to see him grab it and pop it in his mouth. He also likes to let it dangle out of the side of his mouth like Groucho Marx. He still gets giddy with excitement every time he sees his loved ones (especially his big brother). If you are holding him when he sees another special somebody, he pumps his legs up and down and up and down. We call those his “happy feet”. People ask us if he is as cheerful and as pleasant as everyone witnesses of him? The answer that question (and if I can be totally honest) is “YES!” He is absolutely one of the happiest babes in the world and he fills our days and nights with more joy than imaginable!

* Note, the tongue roll (click on picture for a closer view)...

Vaccines He’s Received To Date: Hepatitis B, DTaP (Diptheria, Tetanus, Pertussis), Hib (Haemophilus Influenzae Type b), IPV (Polio), Prevnar/PCV 13 (Pneumococcal Conjugate), RotaTeq (Rotavirus), Flu, Varivax (chicken pox), and MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella)

If you want to read about, contrast/compare Colton's 9 month stats, click here.