For the past month or two he has been into pointing at things. Everywhere we go he points with his little fingers and talks about whatever he is pointing towards. It is the cutest thing ever! He is still talking gibberish but you can tell that in his mind he is definitely telling a story. He is still going to bed and sleeping so good at night. He puts himself to sleep after his bedtime story. And when he wakes up in the morning he plays with all of his animals in his crib. And when we go in there to get him and turn on the light he immediately turns to all of the stuffed animals in the basket next to the window and points and talks to them. We then take him out of his crib and his favorite thing to do is to get on the floor and say "good morning" to all of them.
His eating habits have definitely changed over the past few weeks. He is now on the "big boy" meal plan at school (which is really nice for us since we no longer have to pack his lunch!) and is eating great while at school. But when he comes home for dinner it takes everything that we have to get him to eat dinner. He is just not interested and is now not eating things for us that he use to love. We are hoping that this is just a phase and that soon he will be back to eating a wide variety of things. I have a feeling that all of times that he has been sick over the past month has not helped. His favorite meal of the day is breakfast and he typically starts the day off with yogurt and fruit (and a little bit of dry cereal). And it is one of our favorite times of the day because we all eat breakfast together before we all leave to start our day at work and school. This morning Tab turned the box of cereal on it's side and let Ryland reach in to get some cereal to eat. Ryland thought this was the funniest thing ever. He kept putting his hand in the box and then looking up at us and cracking up.
Ryland has 11 teeth! Yes ... that is right ... I said 11! He has 4 on top, 4 on the bottom and 3 molars. Now we are really trying to work on brushing all 11 teeth. He definitely does not like that!
He is still not "officially" walking but I think he is getting close. He will take 4 or 5 steps before falling to his knees to crawl. And when we hold his hand he does a great job of walking next to us. I really think that he feels like he can get to where ever he wants to go faster by crawling ... he is definitely a fast crawler!
I think I have mentioned this before but he has mastered crawling down the stairs and off of furniture. He is now tall enough to crawl into his Radio Flyer wagon all by himself. And whenever he wants to get down off of something he knows to turn around and crawl down backwards. He loves to climb on everything. They even told us at school that they had to move all of the chairs from around the table to under the coat racks when they were not all sitting around the table because Ryland loved to climb on the chairs and get on top of the table!
I cannot believe that Ryland is already 13 months old! And I cannot believe that this time last year I was half way through my maternity leave. It is amazing how time flies by so fast!
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