things Mac ~ 14 months

words (not perfectly pronounced) -

mik (milk-and signs), mo (more-and signs), magma (grandma), pa (grandpa), makie (blankie), up, light, toe (toast-he has his own weird sign for this), crckr (cracker-same sign as toast), nana (banana),vroom, memo (elmo-recognizes him correctly), sof (soft-as he pets), hewo (hello-puts hand up to ear), hot-and signs, yay (claps hands), sh (shoe), ba (bath-and signs), bu (book), tee (three), da (dada-and signs), bir (bird-signs and makes a tweet sound), side (outside), da (dog-signs or barks/grunts), tay-too (thank you-when he wants something or he gives you something), boo (peekabo), apple (recognizes it), bike, a-b-c (as in saying the start of the alphabet)...and honestly he can say almost anything you ask him to say.

can do:

blow kisses, high fives, blows on his hot food, stacks up to 5 blocks without knocking them down,

pretends to read, count and sing (too cute), can climb up on couch sometimes, recognize and say their sounds: cow , dog, bird , horse ("neah"), sheep, chicken ("bawk"). He knows the sounds of the letters A and B when asked, can sit and listen to a whole book with out turning the pages, is more gentle with paper books, his favorite is hymn books, walking everywhere, climb up the stairs, slide down stairs on tummy, can bend down to pick something up from standing and then stand back up, can climb on the couch, can climb over the barrier/baby gate,

funny things he does:

when he wants milk he will go lay himself down on the floor. He has never figured out how to put his head back to drink out of a sippy or cup when he is sitting up.

he loves to throw things over the baby gate, especially socks for some reason.

this was awhile ago...but I was putting his converse on and I gave him one of the shoes to play with so he would sit still long enough to get the other shoe on. He kept putting it in his mouth, and when I took it away to put it on his foot, he leaned down and to bite the shoe that I had already gotten on his foot. I was cracking up, this boy is bound and determined in what ever he does.

He literally will have a full conversation with you in baby talk. And it is as if he knows exactly what he is saying. It is the funniest thing I think he does.

He loves to empty baskets and bags and then put everything back in it and then empty it again.

if you ask him to honk his nose, he goes for it but he can never find his nose right off. Then he will repeatedly honk our nose, ouch.

he loves to move furniture around, he pushes the chairs all over the place.

he pretends to read or count if he sees any letters or numbers on anything.

he LOVE music and to look at hymn books. he will wave his arms in the air like he is directing.

he is still a really picky eater - he no longer likes bread or toast which used to be his absolute favorite. He loves oatmeal and pasta and sauce.

He recognized pictures of Jesus and will point and try to say Jesus.

bed time routine:
even with Hubs working so much he still usually seems to be home in time to help put Mac down to bed. Mac does not do well unless Hubs is doing our routine with us.

Get PJs on, climb up the stairs, brush teeth, fluoride (which he loves), Hubs sits in the rocking chair with him and kneel down next to them, we read scripture stories and sing a few songs, then we say prayer, then put him down.

We tried adding bath time to this and he usually ends up in an uproar, because he really hates to fussed with.