January iPhone Rewind

 

Sweet boy in his hat!  The 12-24 month size hats don't fit, so this is a 2T hat.

Cooper has always been a big fan of pianos, so we bought him a little keyboard of his own to play.

First Texas snow for either of our boys!

Buzz and Woody.  For Christmas I got the boys a few sets of matching pajamas and they both got Buzz and Woody pajamas, Cooper loves for them to wear the opposite ones so they can be a team ;)

Playing baseball.  Miles is "the catcher" so that's why the stroller is behind Cooper.

Super brothers!

We took a family trip to IKEA one Saturday morning.  Cooper loved trying to steer this cart.

Sweet brother loves to eat.  This was his first time trying black beans.

Climbing all the things.

We had a plumbing back up and ended up with a flooded bathroom floor that led to some other water damage.  So we currently have these dehumidifiers running throughout the house.

Ready for a cold morning walk.

Cooper spent a long time walking along the shoreline of this pond.  Then he decided he wanted to walk in the water and we decided to just let him explore.  Nothing like a little wading in the pond in January.

We spent a lot of the month working on reorganizing our toys, so we put together some new shelving in our fireplace room and moved everything there.

I took the boys to the zoo while the mitigation company worked on some of the water damage.  It was so cool to see this lion so close up.

Baby's first zoo trip!

One of our main focuses for 2021 as a family is spending more time outside.  We've done a lot of walks and the boys and I try to play outside as much as we can.  We're also trying to  check out all of the trails in our city, so we keep the trail map and our hour tracker on the fridge to mark off as we go!

Months of Miles: 8 months

 Diaper Size: 5

Clothes size: Mostly 12 months

Things you love: eating, your thumb, your brother, being talked or sung to, peek-a-boo, teething toys, your thumb, rolling all around the room, sitting up, talking.

Things you don't love: being put down alone, waiting on food in your high chair, when we won't let you eat grass.

Milestones:  You are sitting up, rolling all around, and pushing up on your arms all the time.  When you're sitting you can reach really far forward and then get back into sitting easily.  Still no signs of crawling, but we're also not in a rush or pushing you to it!  You have mostly dropped your cat nap at the end of the day and with the shift in naps you are now awake for all 3 of our meals and you love to eat.  You're eating all kinds of finger foods--so far there isn't much that I've offered that you won't eat.  You seem to love anything spread on a biter biscuit (we've done yogurt, avocado, and liver pate-- you've gobbled them all up but are less interested if we offer the rest on a spoon), meats (ground meat, torn up grilled chicken, cut up sausage, etc.), and apples.  You also have definitely found your voice and in addition to lots of babbling you've started doing lots of yelling to let us know you don't like something!  We transitioned out of the Merlin Magic Sleep Suit and into a sleepsack and you transitioned like a champ!

**You saw your first Texas snow this month!**

Sweet baby Miles what a month.  We got to celebrate your first Christmas with both sides of the family and kick off a new year together.  It snowed for the first time here in a long time and you seemed to enjoy being out in it.  You are loving exploring all of your toys, especially your new Little People set. You still have the biggest and sweetest smile and you love being with any of us.  You are so snuggly most of the time and I cherish those snuggly moments.  It's really fun to see your personality start to develop as you get more and more opinionated about things.  We are so thankful for you my little Miles-a-moo!