Alexander's Adventures: Milestones

Its Friday again - these short weeks throw me off schedule completely (not like I am complaining!) but once again it is Friday and Alex seems to have made some leaps this week - still no walking but he seems to have given up his baby cereal - he is a big boy now and feeds himself about 95% of the time finger foods. This week he has blown my mind with the volume of food he has eaten! He is well on his way to being moved up to the toddler room in daycare - 1) he eats finger foods independently, 2) this whole week - no bottle at daycare! He has used his cup to drink at least 10 oz of milk at daycare a day! 3) the one we have the most problems with is WALKING! He loves to walk around with his cart and the push toys at school but will NOT walk with me holding his hands - he turns into Jello! Or at daycare now he will stand but then thinks its too funny and falls over - small steps I guess.

Other things he started doing well this week - stacking things! We spent about 15 minutes tonight stacking all his jars of baby food that he took out of the butcher block. He did a good job too as long as I kept the lower ones from falling over.

Luckily he is babbling more and more and we are practicing in the car and at home. Our new EI educator starts next week and I am in the process of scheduling a hearing evaluation as well just to be sure he did not suffer hearing loss. Mine was not diagnosed until I was 5 but I seemed to do just fine. Sometimes I wonder if this whole EI thing is worth it. Alex does things in his own time and manner.

Yesterday was one of the other baby's birthdays - so today they had angel food cake and cantelope at daycare - Alex LOVED the cantelope - it was gone before they knew it and wondered if he just threw it on the floor - NOPE - ate it all as usual.

Last night he had some tortellini's for dinner with sauce - this was the result:

Sauce in on the face, hair, hands and clothes!