At 13 months, Jones:
- Weighs 23 pounds and is 30.5 inches long - he grew an inch and a half in one month!
- Wears Size 12 months and 12 - 18 months
- Wears a size 4 shoe
- Is only taking one bottle per day, and everything else is table foods (favorites include vienna sausages - a new discovery for Jones and he loves them ... can't get enough; also chicken, spaghetti, tuna casserole, broccoli, pinto beans, ranch beans, Mexican food in any form (he loves the rice especially), turnip greens and spinach, corn, peanut butter and jelly, and Saltines). We nixed the morning bottle starting this month, and it hasn't been bad at all. I hurry up and change him and then hurry up and get him into the chair and eating his breakfast, and he's fine. My plan is to go the whole month with just a bottle at night, and then for month 14, eliminate the night bottle, so that he will be weaned at 15 months, per the pediatrician's instructions.
- Walks everywhere, all of the time - he's a toddler! He rarely crawls anymore ... I would put the ratio at 90% walking, 10% crawling, and that may be a little generous for the crawling. He is also starting to want to climb - he is constantly walking over to stuff, bracing his hands on it, and he'll kind of hike his leg up like he wants to crawl up onto whatever piece of furniture it is (or, out of the bathtub or crib). Lord help us when he puts it all together and masters that new skill.
- Favorite toys include the push-walker (he always goes over to the baskets with his toys in them and that's the one he is always trying to pull out), maracas of any kind (he loves to shake them), his talking dogs (the FP one and "Scout" the Leapfrog dog), the Fisher Price Poppin' Fun Elephant and the Fisher Price Poppin' Fun Dinosaur (he loves balls, and is learning to throw and roll them back and forth), and his shape-sorter elephant - he walks everywhere holding the shapes and waving them around and showing them to you. He loves to play peek-a-boo - he'll go hide behind a piece of furniture or a doorway and peek his little head around and then grin at you when you see him and say, "Peek a boo!". It's so cute, you could almost die.
- Loves to be outside - he turns his face to the breeze whenever we're outside, and he always stays awake in the stroller now, because he loves seeing the great outdoors.
- Will say words, but not with any regularity. He will say "dog" every now and then, and if you ask him, "Where are the dogs?", he'll look around and out the back door into the backyard. He says "ma, ma, ma" and "da, da, da" with a certain amount of discrimination, but it's not all the way there yet. He will sometimes say "Bye bye" and he is really good with "uh-oh" (must hear that a lot at day care :o)). He will occasionally amaze you by repeating things - he repeated "the dogs are outside" for me and my mother the other day (I mean, it was garbled, but he was definitely repeating me), and I asked him the other day if he wanted this ("this" being an Oreo, which I held up for him to see), and he nodded at me and said, very clearly, "this." And, funny story: I was at my parents' place the other weekend and we were fooling with my dad's lancet device for pricking his finger for taking his blood sugar, and we couldn't get it to work. Either I or my mother, while messing with the thing, said, "Oh, right, you have to cock it back in order to get it to work." And right after that, clear as a bell, Jones says, "Cock!" Of course that's the word he picked out of that sentence.
- Knows and understands simple commands - "Give that to me." "Come here." "No." On the subject of "no" - he has thrown a couple of ring-tailed fits in response to being told "no" over something (usually "no, don't play with the wood blinds", "no, don't get into that cabinet with the chemicals", "no, don't try to get into the trash can"), but currently these only amuse me (although I hide my amusement from him and try to look stern). You can ask him, "Jones, where are the dogs?" and he'll look to wherever they are in the room (or outside, or wherever).
- All of this talk about dogs, you should've known: Jones loves the spoiled labradors and they love him back. It is so sweet, and they are so good with him. Love:
- Has eight teeth, and more on the way!
- Is accident prone! Poor kid is just getting beat up left and right - he fell pretty hard the other day on the concrete floor and had a big goose egg on his forehead; then, shortly after that, he fell into some cabinets at school and cut his chin. Then, some time after that, he fell again at school and bruised his cheekbone up high - gave himself a little bit of a black eye. I took him to the pediatrician the other day for a high fever he had been running for two days and we had to see the on-call doctor, who is close to my age and has a little boy a couple of months older than Jones (and another on the way), and she looked at all of his bumps and bruises and said, "You look like my little boy." We had a good laugh about the dangers of having a mobile toddler.
- Goes to bed around 9:00 or 9:30 (I think I'm going to try to get him going to bed earlier, for the better of everyone) and sleeps until I wake him up to eat breakfast and get ready for school, which is usually around 7:00. He takes about an hour and a half nap at school, late in the morning, and then takes another nap late in the day, from about 5:30 to 6:30.
- Is into everything - cabinets, drawers, under the couch, under the entertainment center, under the table, in the bathroom unwinding the toilet paper, all over the house pulling stuff off of every surface, pulling on every electrical cord known to mankind, banging on every surface, especially doors - life with a toddler means you are on high-alert at all times :o).
- Still enjoys bath time, but he's wearing Mommy out because all he wants to do is stand up in the bath, and it's getting old.
- Hates having his diaper changed - he rolls over about 5 times throughout the process and we are all usually fed up with the whole ordeal by the time it's over.
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