Todd: 12 Months Old

Twelve Month Stats

Weight: 22.8 pounds (done at home)

Height: 30 inches (done at home)

Diapers: Size 4 

Clothes: 18 month clothes and PJs, some 24 months stuff!

Shoes: Size 5! Embry at a year was moving from a 3.5 to a 4...Todd has always had pretty big feet and hands! And it doesn't hurt that his feet are FAT hah!
Eating: He still is a great eater! He definitely doesn't pound EVERYthing I give him now, but pretty much most stuff! For some reason, his long time favorite breakfast- eggs, he has refused the past week or so. Faves are Greek yogurt, banana egg pancakes, baked or grilled chicken, anything Embry is eating, pouches of any fruit or veggie, oatmeal, deli meat, string cheese, any snack carb, anything with red sauce-pasta, zoodles, lasanga. Fully weaned from breastmilk and doesn't really love whole cows milk.

Sleeping: Same as the past few months-Sleeps 12 hours straight through the night! Woo hoo! Although it's 6-6. Would be the icing on the cake if he could go 7-7, but no matter what time his afternoon nap, he's ready for by at 6:00. He takes 2 naps a day, usually 1.5-2 hours each.

Teeth: 7- almooooost 8! 

New Things!

*Full blown walker! Toddy took his first step on his 11 month birthday and quickly became a full time walker! 

*Started Mother's Day Out. Goes 9:30am-2:30 pm Mondays and Wednesdays. Started a week ago and they told me the first day how good he did for it being his first day....but he's barely napping there. Today was his third day and they said he seemed to actually have fun today and play with the other kids. Haha oh to be a fly on the wall.

*Fully weaned off the boob ;) and has been for almost 3 weeks now

*Does this sound with his mouth, like a pursing/smacking of his lips, when he's hungry. 

*Wakes up in the mornings STARVING and not happy. Haha until you give him 2 or so pouches and usually another snack...he's not a happy camper. 

*And still on the topic of food, goes to the pantry to find food when he's hungry. Hah

*Likes to use utensils when he eats. It's SO messy. 

*Definitely a mamas and daddys boy! If were in the room and leave the room, he gets sad. 

*LOVES to be outside. When going from the car to inside and vice versa he often tries to wiggle out of my arms and fuss to get down because he loves just toddling around the carport getting into things. 

*Pretty happy go lucky when he's not tired! 

*Cannot believe our little man is ONE year old! The year flew by and we love him more than we could have ever thought! Can't even remember life without ya, Todder Man!!!

Pictures

The House of Higgins: September 1

Back to the Zoo

We hadn't been to the zoo in forever and went last week with a bunch of friends! We sweat our butts off, but it was a good time, as usual!

Embry Starts Ballet!

Embry loved gymnastics and even with the Olympics going we were shocked when she said she wanted to do ballet instead of gymnastics. She has LOVED going! And we're going to a new ballet studio about 5 minutes from our house. They're an arts studio that has done art and music classes for a few years and this is only the second semester of dance so far. I wasn't sure how'd it would go, but she's really benefiting! The first week of ballet it was only her and one other girl who was trying out the class. And today it was just her! So we're basically getting private lessons. I'm sure she'd enjoy having a big group of friends in her class, but a girlfriend who is going to a popular place in town told me her daughter spent their entire class playing duck-duck-goose. Hah. 

Block Party

Last Saturday we had a little block party! It's awfully fun when your neighbor is a fireman and has the neighborhood station bring two trucks out!

Legoland in Grapevine

As part of the Dallas Summer Reading Program, Embry earned a free ticket to Legoland! We planned to go with a one of our good friends and her two girls and the kids had a BLAST! It's about 45 min from our house and we got there before it opened. I did something very unlike me and had Todd take his morning nap in the car (haha, I'm so Type A and totally okay with that) and we pushed it with staying past 1pm and we still could have stayed and done a ton more! We'll definitely be going back.

Todder Man The Toddler! 

Since my past blog things are a changing with our little Todder the toddler! He took his first few steps on his 11 month birthday, BUT he's walking a ton more now! Just today he probably did 20 steps. He's still wobbly and still gets down and crawls most of the time, but full blown walking is coming soon! Eeek! 

Also, as of Monday he is FULLY weaned! 11.5 months and no more breastfeeding for him. About a week and a half ago he started nursing for about 2 min at night and just kinda playing. So I cut out the bedtime feeding. The first night he cried off and on for 20 minutes which is so unlike him, but then he went onto sleep his normal 12 hours. The second night he fussed for about 3 min. and after that he seemed totally fine. So for about a week we were down to just nursing in the morning. Sunday I realized he nursed for about a minute before spying Jacob's Cheerios and wanting those. So Monday we got up and I offered him a pouch of applesauce and he was fine! Crazy! He doesn't really love whole milk, but he gets plenty of dairy so I'm not too worried! 

  

Embry's Speech Update

Brief update! Embry's speech class is back in session! She attended this past Monday and will go Monday mornings for an hour before her school. She told anyone who will listen this week, "I had SO, so, so much fun at speech" She told me all about playing cards, playdoh, etc. And her speech therapist said she picks up on things quickly and her goals will be updated soon! We're so excited to start seeing (and hearing) some improvements with her S blends especially! 

 

Photos

Jacob's first night to do bedtime (well except when I'd leave a bottle for him)

Seeing Eliot off on his first day of Kinder!

Emotional school day! Embry's last day in her class before moving up to the next classroom Sept 12 when school resumes. She has LOVED her class so much! And even more sad, her school best friend, Corinne, is going to another school this fall. So it was their last day together was yesterday. =(

Candice, one of Jacob's childhood friends, was in town and we got to see her and meet her husband and baby!

Long hair boy! His hair is SO cute, but also driving me crazy! We've had such a crazy week getting ready to be gone for 10 days that we never made it to get it cut. These locks will live on for one more week and we'll get it cut the week we get home! His birthday week!

Hahah Daddy can claim this charm ;) See shirt

Always catch him at Embry's door if he's up before her

Embry got to do another photo shoot for the Matilda Jane release!

She loves doing these! When I told her we were doing one Sunday she ran to her craft table and made pictures for all of the big girls. They were all so sweet when she gave them her scribbles! LOL

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