Vance 13 mo update

A break in the clouds, finally!!!! Van's GERD was a huge issue this past year. HUGE! But once he was put on his zantac he started putting some weight back on and from 9 mo to 13 mo, he has shot up!  He had a wonderful check up at the doctors a couple weeks ago. His doctor was so happy to see him growing at a great rate. He now weighs 21.3 lbs and is 31 1/4 in. Needless to say, mommy was very very excited to hear and see his results!

He has been taking a couple steps here and there the last few weeks so I am sure walking is just around the corner. Of course I am in no hurry right now, with the puppy and all, but excited to have him up and walking. Carrying over 20 lbs on your hip or in your arms every day all day can be quite exhausting. But I DO have the massive mommy arm that comes as a result of a non walker. ha! Van has really started to learn and do so many more things it feels like since he turned one. He is really developing quite the little personality. Stubborn as one can possibly be, just like his sister and his dad, oh wait and his mom...so no getting away from that I guess. He is really starting to lose that "baby look" and beginning to look like a toddler now. Bittersweet. Always.

And I swear once I started saying out loud that he is looking more like a toddler, the fits were instantaneously!! I forgot all about the temper tantrums and fits being thrown for really no reason at all. lol On top of those, he really knows how to manipulate you. He has begun this whining thing where he will just sit in his highchair, say after a meal, and just whine like he is hungry, but won't eat or wants something, but all you offer he shakes no to. So finally I just realized that i had never just told him "stop" or "no." And that's all it took. I will tell him to stop and he just looks up at me, stares, then quits.  That little........

We have been outside quite a bit lately and it is really funny to see him react to the grass and the patio. He absolutely does not like the grass one bit. So trying to even put him down in it is not going to happen. HE ends up looking like a monkey clinging to you with his legs still holding on for dear life around your waist. And you might as well forget about getting him to crawl to you on any type of cement. I guess he doesn't like his perfect skin getting all scratched up. Because now he puts his butt waaaayyy up in the air and still crawls on all fours. lol It is soo funny to see. Between no crawling in grass or not to much on cement this is really all he will do, walk behind his walker! Which we have then dubbed him our little old man!