forget it, i don't know anything anymore

i like to think that mo has come to the point where his routine is predictable, but really, that's just in my imaginary world.  because sometimes he takes a two+ hour nap, sometimes he takes 45 minutes.  sometimes he wakes up screaming, sometimes he wakes up and quietly and contentedly talks to himself.  sometimes he screams bloody murder for 30 minutes before his nap, throwing his two pacifiers and blanket out of the crib, and sometimes he just zonks out.  i cannot wait until this child can tell us what's up.


but i'm thankful.  he still does like to take two naps a day, and they are usually substantially longer than 30 minutes each.  and he sleeps all night every night.  well, except last night, he randomly woke up and cried for like 15 seconds, and then got quiet again.  


this first year of life must be so tough.  i'm glad that, by the grace of God, we don't remember it.  


it's been a little while since i've reported any new things that mo's been doing, so here it goes:

• he loves to press this little button on one of his toys to make it play music and immediately move on to play with other toys.  it's like he presses it just for the background music during his playtime.  
• he can pull up to stand anywhere, including walls!
• he is very interested in eating what adults are eating, but he still doesn't chew that well, even with all those teeth.  i'm still in the phase of supplementing his baby food with table food, mostly because it takes so long to feed him table food and because we've been eating some spicy food these days.  he still cries like a baby when he eats spicy things.  i think i want to introduce him to kimchi sometime soon though.  i will not have a picky eater if i can help it! 
• he started snuggling before naps!  he puts his arms around our neck and lays his head on our shoulder!  it melts my heart *every* time!  i love that little boy!
• he's been learning that if he doesn't know if he should do something, he goes close to it and looks back to see me.  if i shake my head no, he stops going toward it (usually).  this is very exciting to me.
• we transitioned to bathing him in the regular tub a couple of weeks ago.  it's weird.  i miss our little plastic whale tub.  
• he's started to kimchi squat these days.  
• he's very suddenly started babbling with more sounds last week.  he sounds like he's actually talking.  this, after his nearly two week period of saying, "boom boom boom."
• i may have mentioned this before, but cheerios are one of his favorite foods.  they're so precious that he doesn't hardly even drop any when he's eating them.
• he's getting much easier to take grocery shopping.  on today's outing, he didn't fuss at all, even with no snacks and only one toy!  an angel!  
• he's learned how to crawl around on the couch without falling off.  
• he can reach things on top of the kitchen table now.  oi.  i'm trying to train him to stay out of the kitchen area, but it's been truly challenging.  

lovelove,

me