The Blanchard Family: 13 Months Old!

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

13 Months Old!

Kyler was 13 months old last Thursday! Where has the past month gone?! Between birthday parties, Erik being busy at church, and Mother's Day, it seems like the past month has gone by so quickly. Our little man is doing really well! Kyler isn't walking yet but is gaining more and more balance all the time and walks along everything. He even walks along the wall where there is nothing to "hold" on to. He has stood for a few seconds occasionally when he's not thinking about it and even took a step the other night, again when he wasn't thinking. But, as soon as he realizes what he's doing it's back to the floor! So, he'll walk when he's ready! Another thing he's been doing a lot lately is going from crawling to sitting. He had done this once in a while before this past month, but never really had any interest in it, he was very content playing on his belly. However, this past month he has been going from crawling to sitting all the time.

In terms of eating, Kyler loves to eat finger food. He still really likes yogurt-which we still feed to him, but otherwise most of his food is finger food. His favorite is baked ziti pasta which I cut up into little "o"s for him. He takes his finger and sticks it through the hole in the pasta and then eats it!

He has also been talking a lot more this month. He babbles all the time here at home, and lately he has been doing a higher pitched laugh and "dadada", so I think he has figured out he can change between high and low pitch sounds. It's really funny though because once we go out in public and are around people Kyler doesn't know, he's as quiet as can be. :)

Kyler has discovered the bathroom cupboards!!! Ahhhhh!! The kitchen cupboards are pretty much off limits since we are remodeling the kitchen. I keep a gate in the doorway that does not allow him to go in there except on a rare occasion. However, the bathroom cupboards are free game!! We had a little "incident" this past month that caused me to clean out our cupboard and rearrange everything in the bathroom! Kyler was pulling things out of the cupboard, which he had already been doing. I was in the other room and came in to find him sitting in a pool of Hydrogen Peroxide!!!! Ahhhhh!!! He had pulled the bottle out of the cupboard and when the bottle hit the tile floor the lid cracked open, causing it to spill all over!! I didn't know if he had eaten/drank any of it, so I called Erik and asked if I should call Poison Control, he thought I should just in case. So....I quickly undressed Kyler, threw him in the bath tub while I cleaned up the mess and cleaned up the floor. I got everything cleaned up, Kyler in new clothes, and then called Poison Control. I was very relieved to find out that the worst thing that could happen was that Kyler would throw up if he had ingested any at all. So, we had a snack and took a nap! Wow, that was a day! I remember reading on Kris Hoskinson's blog a while ago that the Poison Control number is one you should have handy, well, I didn't think I would need it this soon!! Needless to say, we now have a nice magnet on our fridge with the number on it courtesy of the Poison Control lady!!

Other than that, things are going well at the Blanchards! We are loving this beautiful weather and the chance to be outside, go for walks, and go to the park.