Naptime Blog

Oh my where does time go? Tristan is advancing so well, I often want to know where my baby went. He is down to 4 bottles a day, sometimes 3 and 3 solid meals a day. His weight is holding steady at 23 lbs and I am ashamed to say I have no clue how tall he is. All though he can reach the water on the front of the fridge, the dishwasher controls and the stove knobs, I did a ton more baby proofing. Tristan says a handful of words that include:

• Bop (pacifier)
• BaBa (bottle)
• Wim (swim, he brings me swim diapers)
• Baf (bath)
• Bite Bite (food)
• Ma, Mom (Me)
• Dad (Daddy)
• MaMa (daycare provider)
• Bwall (ball)
• Hi
• Bye

Tristan is also very good at sign language he knows:

• Mom
• Dad
• Milk (I use that sign for bottle its easier then the sign for bottle)
• Dinner (I use that for the general eating of solids)
• Ball
• Sleep
• Happy
• More

I love being a mother and I can’t wait for Tristan’s 1st Birthday party. The party is exactly 4 weeks away today. Tristan eats Parents Choice stage 2 formula with 1 to 2 oz of milk in it. I hope to have him completely switched to milk in his sippy cup by 13 months; I will still feed the stage 2 in his bottle until at least 18 months. For breakfast he eats adult steel cut oatmeal for breakfast with a jar of parents choice purred fruit mixed in. At lunch he eats a parents choice my little meal, I am not sure how long I will keep him on these. I love that they are a balanced meal, in my opinion daycare feeds way to many carbs for lunch and I want him to get the balance. For dinner he normally eats what we do, unless its spicy or not appropriate. Then he also eats a little meal.

Chrystal Oates
www.everydayoates.blogspot.com