Saturday, August 20, 2011

13 (and a half!) Months old

I love my "Mitzi Meow!"


I've taken my sweet time writing this month's post. There is so much to talk about, it's hard to know where to begin.



We went to the lake to feed the ducks!

Coby liked feeding the ducks too!













Liam is just so sweet! He loves to run around the house carrying toys around...mainly balls or blue toys.  Yes! He runs now. One day he was cruising, the next day he was taking off. He has a favorite stuffed cat (his favorite animals are cats) that he hugs and gives little kisses to.  He now puts shapes in the correct holes of a shape sorter (most of the time) and has started putting the rings on the ring "thing." Before he just took them all off! 






He's getting occupational therapy for his feeding issues-though he's made a lot of progress. Last week he ate about a half of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in therapy-all while watching his favorite You Tube videos, of course. He had a speech/language evaluation as well, and was found to be moderately behind. We'll start speech therapy soon.  But he understands so much! He follows some one step directions, and will make his needs and wants known very clearly!  We're going to start using picture cues soon so he will be able to choose things without getting frustrated.

Coby loves taking baths with Liam...Usually Liam likes it too!


Sleep has become an issue lately-we hope it's just a phase. Most nights Liam will wake up 3-5 times for no real reason. We're tired! But now that summer is over and he's back at Safta and Saba's house during the day, we're hopeful that he'll get back on a real routine and sleep better.

This is such a fun age, and it only gets better from here!