Declan is 1!

I know, I know. I am a stranger on my own blog. I promise I do check in occasionally and I have about a million other blogs to catch up on but still. DECLAN IS 1. Technically on the 2nd, but I'm still very much in the "He just turned 1" phase. I'll say this til probably December, fyi.

He's just the best. Period. He's got this HUGE personality and the only thing he really says is Mama. Not complaining. He just started walking the day after his birthday, which was pretty freaking awesome considering I had a bet with his daddy that he WOULDN'T walk til after he turned 12mo. Way to help a sister out! There's just something so, so cute about a little newbie walker. How they hold their hands up. How they take little bitty steps with this huge LOOK AT ME grin. I just eat it up. I want him to be a newbie walker foreverrrrr.

He still wakes up at night, which what up with that? Doc says to ignore him, but Dec has a set of powerful lungs and it's much easier to just sleepwalk my way into the kitchen and make him a bottle. He's still has one like 4 times a day, which is not really a big thing for me. He's really starting to do well in the eating department, so once I feel confident that he's getting all his nutrients from real food, I'll start taking the bottle away. or at least replacing the formula with milk.

I have the brain of a woman with 3 kids under the age of 6, so I totally forgot about his well child check up last week. Oops. The earliest they could get him in was not until August 31st and he'll be approaching the ripe old age of 14mo by then.

5 teeth! 3 on top, 2 on bottom. He doesn't act like they bother him, but we'll see how that changes when those big mean molars start their journey to the top.

1-2 naps a day. He prefers one, I prefer 2. It's a nice battle we have going on.

Still backwards facing. I don't think he's much over 20lbs and everywhere you look someone is yelling at you to keep their rear facing til 2, so I'm just going with the masses and keeping him backwards for the time being. My goal is 18mo, I think. WHICH WILL BE AROUND CHRISTMAS TIME OH BOY.

He still likes to be carried more than he likes down and he'll still lay his head down on your shoulder if he's feeling lovable. Declan is just a great kid and I'm so happy he was picked to be mine.

I promise with cherries on top that I'll get a proper "summer yay" post going so that I won't forget everything that happened this year. Hopefully. Maybe.