Briggs Monster: January 2013

In the beginning we measured your age by hours, then days, then weeks, then months. Now the mommy world says the important increments are every 3 months - so my blogposts are going to follow that trend. Mostly because now you are moving so fast I can hardly keep up and have much less time then I did before!! So much has happened over the last three months and I cringe a little every time I have to tell someone how old you are.

You are definitely a physical kid and all your milestones up until now were all about physical development, but now we are really starting to see your communication skills grow. You have about a dozen words in your vocabulary with the most common being daddy (or dada), no, bird, ball, quack, and since we just had Christmas, hoho was also a favorite. You are quite the babbler and will sit in the backseat and just go on and on! I love it!!

You can now wave, clap, blow kisses, high five, and occasionally will throw up touchdown arms. You are very regimented in your routine and know all about things like bath time, getting dressed, diaper changes, riding in the car, walking to and from the house, and going to school. Even though you love your routine (and we could literally set a clock by you), you really do well on the weekends and when we visit Summerville. We try hard to stick to your schedule, but you are pretty forgiving when we goof it up.

We've done a lot of visiting and driving throughout November and December. With the holidays and the loss of your great-grandma Kitty, you've spent a lot of time in Summerville. Thanksgiving was kind of a bust since as soon as we got to Summerville I came down with the flu. Thankfully you had gotten a flu shot and didn't ever get sick. You still enjoyed some time with both grandparents and were quite the piggy with all the yummy food.

Christmas was much better and we spent a full week visiting. You had a great time seeing all your cousins, aunts and uncles and of course grandparents. You really weren't that into opening presents this year - you preferred talking about Santa and just running around outdoors. One of the highlights of the holiday was going to the James Island County Park Christmas lights - you absolutely loved it and had a great time seeing the lights and riding the carousel.

As of this past week your stats are 31in tall and 22lbs. (I think the height may be a little off since you wouldn't hold still to be measured accurately) You are mostly wearing 18mo size clothes and your shoe size is a 4. You have really shot up in height here recently ... maybe you won't be such a shorty after all! We are officially down to just one nap a day from 1-3pm. You still get a little crabby in the morning around 10am, but a snack and some elmo can fix that!

You haver had four front teeth and four bottom teeth for quite awhile and now there are two bottom molars that are fully in and two top molars peaking through! This is helpful for all the food you munch. You are not at all a picky eater and I normally just fix you some bites of whatever we are eating. It's hard to say what your favorites even are because you gobble up pretty much everything I put in front of you. As soon as the food starts being donated to Logan, we know you're done. You still love to drink milk and otherwise mostly just drink water and the occasional juice.

You love books, animals, sesame street videos, singing songs, and shooting basketball in your toy room. Logan isn't a huge fan (except for at mealtime), so you don't often get to hug him - but you will pet, hug, and kiss any other animal that will let you!

We've given up on going to get haircuts and now I just snip the long pieces at night when you're sleepy. You are so curious that it is next to impossible - so you mostly wear it pretty long and shaggy.

Here is a quick collection from some various video shots: