My Baby Boy

I can't believe that tomorrow, my baby boy will be ONE YEAR OLD already! How did that happen?! WHEN did that happen?! It's been such a fast year and now I see this amazing little boy who definitely has his own personality and is busy, busy, busy!

Andrew, my Baby Bear at one year:
- has 4 teeth on top and 4 teeth on bottom....a few weeks ago, when it snowed, he woke up with THREE new teeth!
-he crawls all over the place and cruises a lot, but he's still not really confident in taking steps. He's taken 5-6 steps alone, but then he'll just slooooooowly slink to the ground and crawl away at lightning speed.
- He is talking already! His first word was "uh-oh" (is that a sign of things to come?!) and he says "outside" but he copies Katelyn and says it like she says it: sounds like "eye-eyed". He says that ("dat") and he picked up the phone one day, held it to his ear and said "hi!"...but I haven't heard that one again. He also said "thank you" or at least it sounded like thank you....
-Andrew LOVES to play with his sisters. He also loves to take their stuff...typical baby brother!
- He loves to dance. As soon as he hears music, even if its just someone singing, he'll start bouncing away and dancing. The other day, my mom was rocking him to sleep, singing the Barney song to him, and he was all wrapped up in a blanket, laying in my mom's arms, seemingly ready to sleep....then he started bouncing all around, dancing and woke up! lol
-Barney is his favorite show. Katelyn LOVES LOVES Barney so we watch it all the time...Andrew has watched a lot, too, so he gets excited and starts bouncing when he hears the word Barney!
-He has recently started to SCREAM! Katelyn did this around a year and stopped when she was in speech and learned more words to communicate, so hopefully he'll drop this screaming thing soon!
- Like a typical boy, Andrew loves to play with soccer balls, basketballs, foam balls...anything round will do. He chases it, grabs for it, then it rolls away a little, so he'll crawl after it again, and repeat!
-His hair is so soft and its getting so long. He really needs a haircut, because his hair in front reaches down to his nose (even despite the cowlick in front), so I have to constantly move it out of his eyes. I decided to wait until his birthday to get his hair cut, so we'll go next week (although it occurred to me that HE will have his first haircut LONG before Katelyn ever does! lol).
-Andrew is, well, a chunk. He is a solid little (?) guy! He started out eating every 3 hours or so coming home from the hospital, but because of reflux, like Katelyn, they wanted me to feed him every two hours. Well, apparently he liked that schedule because I think he was probably 5-6months old before he outgrew that schedule!!! Well, probably 4 months because we went to the beach when he was 5 months old and it was 4 hours between bottles then. Just SEEMED like it took forever! Now, of course, he goes about 5-6 hours or so between meals, like a regular schedule.
-He loves his paci, but isnt as attached to it as Katelyn was.
-At night, the kid has NEVER really slept through the night. Madison STTN at around 3months old, Katelyn, at 7 weeks. This kid apparently never got the memo. He still wakes up at night to eat, though he's always woken up around 2 or 3 to eat, and gone right back to sleep in 5 minutes, which is awesome. If he stayed awake or was hard to get back to sleep, that would have made it even rougher. Though in the last few weeks, he's been sleeping through the night off and on....maybe 1/2 the time?
- He has been drinking from a sippy for a few weeks, trying to transistion to a sippy cup. He has done amazingly well! He still has an actual bottle at night when he wakes up most times, but last night I just gave him a sippy for a minute then he just rolled over and went back to sleep.

I am so proud of my little man. He is becoming such a big boy! I can't wait to see him start walking and becoming a toddler, though I'm a little sad he's no longer a little baby!