One to Grow On: Brock 14 months

What a month of growth it's been for our little boy. It crazy how much he learns and changes in just a few short weeks. He keeps us on our toes!

Food -

Picnic at the park.

This child LOVES to eat Cherrios! In fact, I think we may have created a "Cherrio Monster". We got into the habit of feeding him Cherrios as soon as he got into the highchair - kind of like a little appetizer, while we get the rest of his food ready. Great idea in theory, but we began to notice that he was not eating his vegetables like he used to. Now, we make sure to give him some of the more important foods first and save the Cherrios for a little further into the meal. Problem solved :)

New foods:
Zuchinni
Yellow Squash
Ham
Grapes
Blueberries
A few bites of Daddy's pizza

Brock is still loving the Vanilla Soy Milk. We are not giving him a lot of dairy for the time being and will be checking back in with his pediatrician about it soon.

Brock has officially moved from bottles to the straw cup only (which, selfishly, makes me happy because washing them is by far my least favorite activity). He looks like such a big boy holding the cup all by himself!

Movement -
Brock is a master at his own version of the "army crawl". Not a full out crawl, but he can get where he needs to go and loves to follow us around the house.

Playing at the Y

In the last week or so, Brock has started standing up without holding onto anything for a few seconds at a time. I can tell he is so eager to be able to walk on his own. We're not far off!

Words - Most days I feel like I am having full on conversations with Brock. He is talking 90% of the time...which is probably because I am talking his ear off most of the time. He talks to us, his toys, the dog, and himself. We love it!

This month, he's added some new words to his vocabulary, including: Paw Paw, Bebe, "night night", Lucy, Owen (his good buddy), Cherrio, cup, milk, football, shoes, and "all done".

Hardest part this month: changing his clothes.
He cries/screams every.single.time.

Favorite of this month: how excited he gets when we tell him it's time to take a bath! It's like we can't get his clothes off quick enough before he's practically diving in!

A few more pics from this month...