The Beecher Family: 14 months!!

14 months old and what a big "personality" you have developed!! This month we haven't had too many changes except for the fact that you have grown so much. The other day after one of your BIG naps Daddy and I were watching you play and we looked at each other and said we couldn't believe how big you looked. We swore you must have grown in that nap you just had!

What's new this month with Grayden:

Well you are finally starting to pick up some sign language. You love to sign "more" and no exactly what you are signing for. You are getting used to the "milk" and "bath signs for now. You have sorta made up your own sign for "milk" since you were about 5 months old. You rub your fingers across your nose and lips over and over until you get some.
I don't think you have said any new words which is a little surprising but you have become REALLY good at the ones you already know. "Uh Oh" is a word you use constantly. You purposely drop food or throw things so that you can say it. You like to pick up the phone and walk around with it by your ear and yell HHHIIIIIII at the top of your lungs!!!

We had another friend join our day home this month and I just love watching you try to interact with the older kids. The boys are two, Makayla is almost four but you try so hard to fit in and its just really cute to watch you jump out of your character a bit. They are so good with you even though you like to grab or demolish whatever they are doing. (stinker)

Well this month we finally got you into an earlier sleeping routine. You fall asleep around 8:30/9:00PM and wake up at 7AM with mommy. This has been so nice for me to have those extra hours to my self at night and get up with you in the morning. You go to sleep in your crib but wake up around 5:30 6 to nurse so I come get you and put you in our bed for an hour and then you pretty much wake up only a few minutes before my alarm clock.
Before when you didn't go to be until 10/11PM I would have to leave you in our bed in the mornings with the video monitor and a bunch of pillows around the bed. That made me so paranoid and you never got a good sleep without me there. So I am SUPER happy about this new routine!!

You have started to eat a lot more solids this month but still the same amount of mommy's milk. Your not a big breakfast fan though. You just want my milk and that's about it for the mornings. You love grapes and toast with coconut butter for snack and a veggie wrap for lunch, and Salmon/rice/broccoli for supper. Salmon was a new thing this month but we don't give you much. I didn't think you'd like it but you LOVED it.
Grayden had french fries for the first time this month (well Sweet potato fries..haha) I cute them in to skinny pieces and sprinkled a bit of olive oil and cinnamon on top and they were delicious! Gray loved them.

You FINALLY figured out the sippy cup earlier this month!! You couldn't figure out for the longest time how to get the water out. Now you are obsessed with sippy cups!!

Whining and an attitude have really developed this month...haha! Whenever you don't get your way or if I take something away from you, you throw your arms down to your side or turn around and hit what ever is behind you. You have actually hit mommy or daddy a few times. Last week you hit daddy for the first time and he grabbed your hand and looked at your firmly and said "NO" with an angry tone and you looked back and started to bawl! :( MAN this discipline thing is hard.

You love to dance and watch your favorite show "Tigger and Pooh", We are not ones for TV especially for Grayden but we can't help but turn it on a couple times a day just to see how happy and excited you get EVERY TIME.

Your favorite place to play and be is outside right now. Whenever we open the door you run, or whenever we open the shoe closet you reach in and grab your shoes. You just love it outside and it's too bad this stinkin weather would cooperate so we could enjoy it more! You love to just walk around all by yourself and explore. You get so excited when you see birdies and planes! You point and and look at mom and dad as if your making sure we see are staring too. You love going for walks in your wagon and swinging in the swing at the park. Sometimes when your cranky we'll just take you outside and you become the happiest little boy immediately.

You discovered the windows this month! You are a little taller now so you LOVE to look out the window and wave your hand Hi to everyone you see walking by. Whenever mommy or daddy leaves the house you run to the window to watch us getting in the car and wave/scream BYEEEE!!! It's too cute!

You also discovered light switches. You can't reach them but you point to them all the time. You love it when mommy or daddy pick you up so you can switch them ON and OFF, over and over. You get so excited and clap your hands every time you switch it.

Auntie Lynnie is coming home in less than 2 months! I CANNOT wait for her to meet you and experience the joy of having you in her life!! It chokes me up every time I think of her holding you for the first time at the airport and wrapping her arms around you.....(tear) I seriously CANT wait. She loves you so much and expresses that in every letter she writes! She can't wait to meet her little nephew!!

Well baby boy! Happy 14th month birthday!!
Love always
Mommy and Daddy
xoxoxo

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