30 1/2" tall= 75%
24#11oz= 80%
Poor guy had to have 4 shots too, but he was a trooper!
Also, he took about 20 steps in a row last night! He's getting more confident every day, but he still prefers to speed crawl!!
January 28, 2011
January 25, 2011
Friend party
Today we had a few of Miles's little friends over to play to celebrate his birthday. I chose to have it today instead of tomorrow, so that just the babies could come over while the big kids were at school. We rarely get together without the older siblings, and it was fun to get that chance today. Unfortunately, two guests had to call in sick this morning, so it was a smaller group than we had anticipated, but we had a great time!
On a different note, Miles just had his 6th tooth pop through today! As Grandma Bea always said, "Babies always change right before their birthdays!"
Miles having fun with McKade and Greer
Are you in there Greer?
Happy birthday boy!
Singing "Happy Birthday"
This was the funniest...Kimen got out a container of Puffs to give a few to Henry. In about 2 seconds, all 4 boys were surrounding her begging for Puffs!
Henry, Miles and Greer
Family party
Miles's birthday isn't until tomorrow, but we had his family party last Sunday. It was really nice of everyone to brave the snow to come celebrate with us! Miles was a little tentative digging into his cake, but eventually got a pretty good handful! He also loved pointing at the balloons from afar, but was pretty scared of them up close. Funny! Bennett was a great big sister. At the end of the night, I told her how proud I was of her during Miles's party. She looked at me and said, "I know mom, I didn't act jealous or anything!" :) Thanks to Ann and Grace as well, because they were so nice to play with Bennett for most of the time!
Birthday boy in his monkey shirt
Miles with Great-Grandma Rull
Grandma Joje, Grace, Pa and Miles hanging out on the couch
Two pictures of our lovely guests!
January 18, 2011
First Steps
Miles took his first steps on January 13. We were playing with Bennett's dress-up cowboy hat. I would put it on his head, he would take it off, then put it on my head, etc. Brandon was a few steps away, so I put it on his head and stood Miles up. He took about 2 1/2 steps to reach the hat! He has done it a few more times since, mostly if you're bribing him with something he wants. :)
This video is of him pushing his walker. He flies! I'm sure more independent walking is soon to come! I will try to catch it on video soon!
January 11, 2011
Reading
Between her new Tag Reader from Santa, stories on our iPad, and new library books, Bennett has really been into reading lately! She's really starting to be able to decode words and loves the feeling of being able to figure it out! Here she is reading a book called Camping Day with Daddy before bed the other night.
Snow day!
Bennett is home from school and dancing today due to the snow. She's been begging all day to play outside. She even said this morning that maybe Daddy could take Miles with him to work so that she and I could play outside. ha! When Brandon asked her what Miles would do at work, she said, "Well he loves to crawl around and stuff. He could just do that!" The real feel is about 4 degrees right now, so we probably won't play in the snow today. Luckily my friend Kimen saved the day and gave me a recipe to make snow ice cream. After I got Miles down for his nap, I let Bennett go outside and collect some snow and then we made the ice cream. It actually tasted pretty good!!
Bennett has been really into coloring lately! Her fine motor skills have improved tremendously in the last few months. Now she loves to make beautiful, colorful pictures and her attention span is amazing! Here Lilo is admiring her work as well!
Miles update
I didn't give a proper 11 month update of Miles since it fell the day after Christmas, and that was in the middle of our Christmas chaos. In the month of December, Miles got 2 more teeth, and January 9 his 5th tooth just came through. I think there are a couple more not far behind. His sleeping wasn't great for awhile. He would be up at 4 AM for an hour for no apparent reason (other than all these teeth he's been getting) although he didn't seem too upset, just awake. Lately he's been doing much better though.
He's such a character! He loves getting into all cabinets and drawers. Lately, his favorite has been to open the cabinet that holds all of my coffee K-Cups, and transfer all of them into the drawer under my oven!! He's a super speed crawler and always goes straight for all stairs too!
Right now he's really into stirring. Give the kid a bowl and a spoon and he goes to town "stirring the pot" as we call it. He's also enjoying transferring things in and out of a bag or box. He's getting more confident standing every day and does it for a few seconds at a time multiple times a day now. No steps yet though. He loves to push anything around the house that he can move: chairs, his high chair, his push toys, diaper boxes, etc.
Eating has been interesting lately. He's been ravenously hungry, but he's developing much more discerning taste buds. He's not too big of a fan of a lot of vegetables now, but loves all fruit. He's also very picky about textures. He's still on baby food at least half the time, but I'm having trouble getting him to try many new things to expand his horizons. Just yesterday he started drinking cow's milk. Hooray! We're weaning off of formula! He hasn't had trouble doing it, although with Bennett I was able to transfer to milk and a sippy cup at the same time. I think giving up the bottle will be more of a challenge with Miles because he does not like cups!!
I was washing the windows to get our house ready for a showing. I gave Miles the roll of paper towels with a few left on it to play with. I turned around and he had ripped a few off and was "washing" the windows just like me!
January 7, 2011
Christmas part 5, Reed family Christmas
This is the final installment of Christmas posts! As you can tell, our Christmas kept going and going and going! On the 26th, we headed up to Aunt Leola (GAL) and Jim's house to get together with the Reed family. The food was outstanding as usual (Thanks GAL!) as well as the dessert (AKA Aunt Madonna's peanut brittle and Katie's Oreo Truffles, not to mention tons of pies, cakes and cookies!). It was really fun to celebrate with all of the Aunts, Uncles and Cousins!
Miles is excited about his new blocks and monster truck!
GUS spent a lot of time playing trains with Bennett and Miles
Bennett immediately put on her new fancy shoes and jewelry from her Pretty Pretty Princess game
GAL got out Katie's old Cricket doll for Bennett. I have lots of memories of playing with that doll at Katie's house when we were little! It's great that she still works!!
GAL had a great poem to make the rules for White Elephant much easier this year!
Aunt Madonna and Miles
Miles was either excited about presents or about finding Bennett's shoe...
All the cousins!!
January 6, 2011
Christmas part 4, Rull family Christmas
ter in the afternoon on Christmas day, the Rull family came over to mom and dad's house. We had a great time celebrating!!
All the cousins!
Bennett's ballerina doll from Great-Grandma Rull straps to your feet and dances with you. What a hit!
Bennett took her for a spin...
Then she told Murph it was her turn! ;)
Miles loved watching it all unfold!
Christmas part 3, Christmas morning
Since we had a big night the night before, Miles woke up a little before 7 on Christmas morning, but Bennett slept until 8! (unheard of in her world!) We opened presents from Santa at our house, and then after Miles's morning nap we headed over to Grandma Joje and Pa's house to open gifts with them.
Santa came!!
Bennett was excited about her Tiana book for her new Tag reader, and her new doll house!
This Christmas was the most fun, because Bennett loved all the anticipation by counting down on our Advent calendars, and was truly so excited for Christmas morning!
Miles cruising around with his new walker
Daddy and his kids!
Bennett enjoying all the fun at Grandma and Pa's house!
More Playmobile!!
Bennett and I admiring all of the alphabet ornaments that Grandma made for the kids.
Miles getting in on the action!
Miles stood all by himself on Christmas morning for at least a minute without holding on!!! What a big boy! Unfortunately, he hasn't done it much since!
Miles and Aunt Murph
Grandma and the kids
Pa and the kids
Daddy and Bennett are pretty excited about Steak n Shake gift cards and coupons! ;)
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