-- the official brag post... but whatever,...it's my kid and my blog --
I love being Ben's mom. Aside from the not-eating-solid-pieces-of-fruit thing...he's an angel child. Easy to read. Easy to figure out. I just love spending time with him. (He also has quite a funny personality so he makes my days with annoying grade 8s so much better!).
Month 13 has brought some interesting new adventures -- (can you believe he's 13 months already!?). Ben loves repeating words... so Adam has taught him poo, pee pee, and bum bum. Lovely. (I did teach him wiener...which he won't say though -- too modest?). His new thing now is giving Tigger and Bluey (his napping/night time bear) hugs. It's the cutest thing ever.
This morning, we were totally interacting in such a fun way. He had his sunglasses, but dropped them down the side of our bed. I asked him to 'go get your sunglasses' and pointed... he then proceeded to crawl over...reach down, grab them...and bring them back to me! How smart is that? The other day, I told him that Tigger had fallen out of his toy box...and he crawled over and picked him up and gave him a hug. So sweet.
The sweetest thing so far... (like so sweet it makes your heart melt into a gooey mess)... happened last night. It was my first night of "sippy cup-non boob" feeding (more on that later). Ben had his sippy cup of milk ... happily sitting in his daddy's lap... reading his bedtime story. He was holding his sippy cup in one hand... Bluey in the other. Adam then showed him that Bluey might want a drink too... (making sippy slurping noises too!). Ben then took his sippy cup and put it up to Bluey's mouth!!! So sweet. He did it again this morning with Tigger. I didn't think kids pretended this early...but he's got quite the creative imagination. (He also makes truck zooming sounds too...but that's another story).
Ben's also into standing on his head and looking at you through his legs. He tilts his head to the side while he eats his breakfast. He drags his hand through his hair and over his face so his bangs get covered in whatever food he happens to be eating at the time.... and then he laughs because he's knows how annoying it is for me to clean up.
He picks up sticks and says 'stick' (or some variation of the word)... he drums on just about anything he can find, including (but certainly not limited to): our garbage can, the closed toilet lid, the nearest kitchen pot, his toy box and the couch. If music is playing... Ben is dancing. We haven't even needed to bust out kid-only music in our car yet, because he's content singing along with our music. No need for baby music for Ben (which is fine by us!).
13 months.. (on the nose).. brought a very bittersweet moment for me though. The end to our before bed feedings. I've started noticing (for a while...but was reluctant to actually acknowledge it) that Ben isn't so interested in before bed feedings. He feeds for maybe 5 minutes total. He would rather do anything...but nurse. I decided that enough was enough. He is drinking a lot more during the day from his sippy cup (he transition from breast to sippy...no bottles!)... and he was really getting the hang of holding it and drinking. So Friday night, we decided to pack it in and give it up. No boob. Only sippy. He did so well ... didn't seem to miss it at all... (Thankfully, I did fine too...) Tonight was a little harder... Ben was acting a bit sucky...and needed just a wee longer hug, but then he was totally fine. I'm still feeding him when he wakes up at 6am...and so far he hasn't felt the need to push me away. I'm holding on to every little baby-hood thing I can with him. He may have started asserting his independance (wanting to feed himself with his spoon, for example)... but I'm so not ready to stop yet... unfortunately, Ben has other plans. What a sweetheart.
TGI-weekend.
