Jared's 12 Month Post

Jared turned one today! (And he even smiled for his pictures.) We've had a great day celebrating with our families. I'll put up a post with birthday pictures later, but here are some things I want to remember about Jared at this age.

He generally takes one nap a day right after lunch and will sleep 2-3 hours.

At night, he sleeps from 7:00pm to around 5:30am, drinks a bottle and then will sleep until 7:30 or 8:00. (Soon, we'll probably try to stop breaking that little habit, but it'll probably be ugly for a couple of days.)

He loves to play with balls and cars.

He started cruising on furniture a lot over the last few weeks. I still think he's a month or so away from walking, but he gets around pretty well between cruising and crawling.

He still only has 2 teeth, but his top 2 look like they'll come in any day. (They've been looking like that for a while, though!)

He has started signing "milk" without us prompting him to copy us. He also says, "Nanana" which we think is his word for milk or food.

Words he says: "Da" (Dog), Dada, Uh-oh, & Nanana

He wears size 4 diapers & 9-12 month clothes. I'll have official stats on him in a couple weeks after his check up. I'm pretty sure he's still under 20 lbs.

He continues to eat baby food well, but is a lot pickier about finger foods. His favorite thing at the moment is diced ham.

Here are a few pictures from the month:

He tried to eat a stamp and got ink on his face (it also gives you a good view of his teeth):

Enjoying a piggyback ride:

Before we left to look at Christmas lights:

He still sucks his fingers...a lot!

Cute jammies:

Crawling through his tunnel:

Trying to get a cute sibling picture. Their outfits matched and everything. Oh well: