13 Things About Beau at 13 Months
1) Beau loves to play peek-a-boo and patty cake. He will initiate peek-a-boo by turning his head slightly to the side and then looking back at you. He thinks it is hilarious! He also likes when we play This Little Piggy... with his toes. He loves clapping, too! He has 3 favorite toys right now: a leapfrog sound table, fisher price shape blocks, and a little piano.
Beau is giving us his squishy face while playing piano.
Beau is in his pirate pajamas playing at his learning table.
Beau can stack two shape blocks on top of each other.
2) Beau likes to have his teeth brushed. I have only been brushing his teeth with water, mainly because I keep forgetting to buy baby toothpaste. I brush his teeth twice a day. He has 4 teeth on the top and 4 on the bottom. In the last day or two, a new top tooth has started popping through!
3) When Beau is in the mood for independent play, he is very focused. He likes to play in the tupperware and stack the different bowls and lids. If I am in the kitchen with him, he will do this for about 10 minutes. He also loves to flip the pages of board books. I keep about 10 board books in the den and he loves to sit and flip the pages. I try to read to him while he looks at the pictures. Sometimes I will read one book aloud to him as he flips the pages of another book.
Beau loves to read his Bible that he brought with him from Korea.
He thinks playing in the cabinets is fun!
4) He really loves technology such as computers, phones, Raleigh's kindle, and the tv remote control. I know this is hard to believe unless you have seen it with your own eyes, but Beau can be having a total meltdown....but if an iphone commercial comes on tv, he will stop screaming and watch the iphone commercial. It is hilarious. Also, he can be 99% asleep and I will open my laptop to check email or blogs. If he notices, he will pop right up and crawl over to the computer with a big smile on his face.
Laptops are awesome!
5) Beau is a great crawler and cruiser. He crawls all over the house and cruises along the furniture. He is also great at pulling up. He really likes to climb the stairs. We are of course always right beside him if he is on the stairs. He is not walking yet, but we know he will be soon. He tries to stand up on his own, but he just doesn't have the balance yet and he immediately falls down. We know that Beau was carried a lot in Korea. Beau's foster mom is in her 60's and I have heard that the older foster moms carry the babies even more. Beau still loves to be carried and wants to be carried a lot throughout the day.
Climbing the stairs is fun!
Crawling is hard work!
6) Beau's hair and nails grow really fast. I have to clip his nails every 2-3 days because they get long so quickly. When his nails have any length to them at all, he scratches his face so it is important that we keep them trimmed. It is amazing how much his hair has grown since he came home. He will be needing a hair cut soon. The back of his head has a "bald spot" that is covered by short little hairs. He prefers to sleep on his back, so the hair on the back of his head is very thin.
7) Beau is mostly wearing size 12 month clothes. We have a few pairs of 12 month shorts that are too big for him, but those are probably just shorts that run a little big. We went shopping this week for some pants (because we have two weddings coming up in September and October) and Beau wears size 6-12 month pants from Gap. We tried on 12-18 month pants but they were really big on him. I have discovered that his torso is long and his legs are short, so it may become a little challenging to find pants that fit correctly. Shorts are easier to wear because they can be a variety of lengths and still fit ok. Pants can't be too long or too short.
8) Beau is eating more and more table food. He really likes pizza! Ha! Ha! I feel good about the amount of fruit he is eating, but he doesn't eat too many vegetables just yet. I'm trying creative ways to get him to eat more veggies. He has switched from formula to whole milk. He only drinks milk and water. We have tried giving him apple juice, but so far he doesn't like it. He is still drinking from a bottle. We are ok with that! :) He has his whole life to drink out of cups, so we are cherishing these few months we have while he is still a baby.
We are still using the bottles that came in Beau's blue bag from Korea. We have tried others, but he likes these the best.
9) Beau really likes our upholstered couch. It is truly his favorite place to sleep. He also loves the pillows that are on the couch. In fact, he uses them to go to sleep. He rubs the corners of the pillow and sometimes chews it a little too. We try to give him his pacifier if we notice him chewing the pillow.
10) Beau learned to like his bath while he was 13 months old. He also likes to get lotion on his legs and arms after his bath.
11) We tried the crib for a couple of weeks, but Beau just does not like it. Every time his arm or leg would hit the side of the crib, he would wake up. We have moved a twin mattress into his nursery and he sleeps on the mattress on the floor. He seems to like this better. Also, he likes to know that you are right beside him as he is falling asleep. The twin mattress makes this easier because I can lay beside him as he falls to sleep. Beau isn't on much of a sleep schedule yet, but we would not expect him to be since he has only been home a month. Also, in Korea he was accustomed to drinking a bottle of formula every 3 hours, even during the night. We know that it is going to take some time to get him out of this habit. We are trying to give him water during the night instead of milk as we work on helping him sleep for longer periods of time. Last night he fell asleep at 10:30pm on the mattress in the nursery. He woke up at 1:00am. I gave him some water and he fell back asleep by 1:30am. He woke up again at 4am and was awake until approximately 5:30am. We gave him some milk, changed his diaper, rocked him in the glider, laid still beside him on the mattress, carried him, etc. but he cried for about 1.5 hours. We put him in our bed once he calmed down and he slept until 8:00am. That would be a pretty typical night. Thankfully, the Lord is gracious and gives us rest even when we haven't slept much. Beau generally takes one 2 hour nap during the day.
This is Beau sleeping in our bed.
12) Beau likes to babble. Right now, his babbles are mostly vowels with an occasional consonant. When he hears you say "hello" he will put his hand up next to his ear and pretend like he is holding a telephone. It is really cute! He also likes to pretend to cough. He will pretend he has a cough so that you will say "excuse you" or "bless you." Once you reply with excuse you or bless you, he will smile and laugh.
13) Beau has a smile that will melt your heart. When he is in the mood for a snuggle, he will press his face up against your face and it is the most precious thing ever. I never want to take those moments for granted.
Look at that precious smile!!! I love how he smiles with his whole face!!
We love you Beau more than you will ever know. We loved you and prayed for you long before you were even born. Our hearts are so thankful that you are home. Even in the hard moments when you are sad and nothing seems to comfort you, we love you so much. We pray that each day you will feel more at home with us. We promise to love you forever.
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