Jasper is 14 months old today, and let me tell you, time flies with a toddler just as much as it does with a newborn. We haven’t been good about blogging, but this is the closest thing we have to a baby book, so I thought I’d do an update.
He’s still big for his age (wearing 2T clothes sometimes now, depending on the brand!), but he’s slimming down. He was 25.5 pounds at his 12 month appointment, and the same at 13 months (when we went to the dr for a double ear infection!) He’s got 10 teeth—and the two molars he just cut are apparently his 18-month molars. And a ton of hair. Sara’s given him 2 haircuts already to keep it out of his face.
He walks! He started at about 13 months, with a step and then two (towards his big blue bouncy ball). Then it stopped for a week, and he reverted to crawling—faster to keep up with Dori, his friend he shares a nanny with. At 13 1/2 months, though, I changed his diaper one day and put him on the floor standing next to his walker. Instead of grabbing on, though, he turned around and just walked across the room. And he hasn’t looked back. The video below is from the early days, his first few steps. Before he was walking all the time, though, he would do a kind of hybrid walk/crawl. Thus, we call the second video “Jasper auditions for the role of Smeagol” (you know, Gollum from Lord of the Rings).
He talks!
He only has a few words, but man does he ever use them! Spoken:
- Mum, Mumma (Sara)
- Momma (Abby. But he really prefers to call me “Mom-mom”, which I don’t like as much. What can you do?)
- More
- Ball
- Hi
- Banana (actually he says “ananas”, but I don’t *think* he means pineapple)
- Nana (a natural word to follow banana)
- Josie (We were flipping through a photo album and I was naming family members as we went. When we got to Josie, he loved it so much that it shouted JOOOSIE!)
Signed. While we’ve been signing to him since the start, he only just started signing back to us.
- More
- Please
- Milk
- All done
- Waving hi
He also loves animals, and his animal-sound vocabulary is far ahead of his English one.
- Grrr (bear. Also his default noise for any animal he doesn’t know or can’t do. This is why elephants, according to Jas, growl.)
- Roar (lion)
- Quack-quack (duck. But it comes out more like “boop-boop”)
- lip-smacking (giraffe. One of his favorites. You know, it’s the sound a noisy giraffe would make when chowing down on leaves.)
- Moooooo (cow. Ok, it sounds more like “ohhhhhhh”, but it’s definitely in response to the cow.)
He eats. Anything and everything. He loves spinach. And blueberry pancakes. I think the only two things he hasn’t loved so far were black olives (on a tapas plate he ate at a restaurant for dinner once) and lemon wedges (though he kept going back for more)! And you name it, he’s tried it.
He’s a great sleeper—he goes down without a peep at 7pm, and sleeps till 7am. And two naps during the day. When he naps for the nanny, those are each 2 hour naps, but for me, it’s usually more like an hour each. I dread him going to just one nap. I love naptime. I get so much work done!
What else? He’s just a happy happy little man. He loves animals. And flowers—he goes crazy whenever we have flowers on the counter, and loves smelling them. He leans in close and breathes in and out heavily. It’s crazy cute. He loves balls. He likes to pass them back and forth, or to throw them in front of himself and then chase them down the hallway. He loves to read (right now he’s sitting in front of the book shelf, reading a book out loud to himself. He can do that for 20 minutes straight). He wrinkles his nose when he laughs. He loves to stack things, and then knock them down—or play with a ring stacker. He likes to put things in boxes and carry them around. He loves dumping toys out of their bins and then methodically putting them away, one by one. (Yeah, he thinks cleaning up is a game.) He sings to himself. He plays peek-a-boo (he likes putting boxes on his head and then waiting for someone to say “Where’s Jasper?” That gets him shaking with laughter. Mainly, he’s just a lot of fun to hang out with. He’s a happy happy little boy full of personality.
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