12 month
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September 22nd, 2008
No pics due to camera getting wet and drying out. It works now just need to get pics. Sorry So late in this post just have not been up to par lately. But here you go.
The last year just seems like it was a complete fog. Nothing great happened and nothing bad. Just the same old thing everyday. I am so happy wingnut has turned 1 year. Things seem to be picking up a bit. He is way more mobile now and can do quite a bit more now that he is older. This makes it so much easier on me. I really do hate the baby stage. I really am looking forward to the upcoming years. I still do miss my life pre-wingnut, which bums me out sometimes. Things were just easier. Children are a lot of work. I have been trying to keep busy so that my days won’t stay the same everyday. I made a day for a trip to the library, a day to the park if it is nice, and a list of people to visit. Anyways on to wingnut news.
Mobility
Wow! He has progressed so much lately. Walking/running. Climbing everything. Pushing everything. He never stops moving. I am not kidding about this either. He never sits still. This is good and bad at the same time. It makes car rides and times when he must sit on our laps really rough. But other times when he is in a good mood it is great, he keeps himself preoccupied. But if he is not in a good mood he just walks around winning and graping on to my leg 
Eating and Sleeping
He pretty much eats most things now. When we give him unmashed food he eats some but not enough to fill him up so we are still having to feed him baby food. But that should only get better. I see the end to buying baby food soon. I am so happy about that for two reasons, one, I will not have to feed him and two, I will have space on my shelves again. His favorite food right now are raisins and yogurt. He seriously wants raisins all day long.
He is finally sleeping through the night again. When he turned 12 months I was thinking he was old enough to sleep through the night now. So that evening I let him keep crying. It did not last long maybe five minutes at the most, and he has been sleeping from nine to six very regularly now. Naps are another thing, I have been trying to move him to one nap a day. Sometimes it works and other days he still takes two. So, I decided to just play it by ear and see what happens.
Other Stuff
He now puts stuff in your hands when he wants something. For instance he recognizes the fruit snack bag and when he finds an empty one laying around he picks it up and puts it in my hand. It is rather cute. He is really loving being outside, so I have been watching craigslist religiously searching for outdoor toys. I really want some sort of climbing cube and a sandbox. But I don’t want to pay an arm and a leg for one, they are expensive even used. I want the sandbox because he loves sand. I found that out when we took him to the beach.
