ONE

GUYS. It happened! I survived! Milo turned one and I survived! 

Milo turned one on Thursday (March 5) and we had such a fun day with him. We gave him a ball popper and his cousin Olivia gave him a truck that he's been pushing around all day ever since. We ate donuts (his favorite) and watched Curious George. I feel so blessed to have had him for a year, and I feel so blessed that rather than give birth this year I was able to watch him crawl around and laugh and play and snuggle. People always talk about how the best days of your lives are the days you get married and they days your kids come into the world, and while those days are really really great days that I will always remember, it's so hard for me to call them the best days of my life. For me, every day since having Milo has just been better and better. There are ups and downs of course, but watching him grow has been the happiest and greatest thing I've ever done. 

A more detailed 12 month update is forthcoming, and also a proper birthday party post but I thought you guys could use a little recap of Milo's first year so be sure to click the links down below. :)

Milo's Birth Story

Milo's Birth Story (Livetweet Edition)

"Beautiful Boy" Newborn Video

A couple essays on parenting [1, 2, 3]

a name and a blessing

Milo at 4 months (video)

Milo's Monthly Updates

"Hourglass" One Year Video 

Milo | 12 Months

WELL. HERE IT IS. Milo's very last monthly update. Once again, I apologize for the quality of the pictures but I had approximately 2 seconds between me positioning him and him rolling away with which to snap the picture, and that results in some slightly out of focused, blurry pictures. But I do what I can.

At one year old, Milo is a few ounces shy of 24 lbs. He's 32 inches tall and he still has a tiny head. He wears size 4 diapers and 18 month clothes fit him just perfectly. He has giant feet and giant hands. It can be a struggle to fit his hands through the arm holes sometimes.

Pretty sure I've written it in every. single. blog post. but seriously his current stage is MY FAVORITE. I am obsessed with him right now. He's more and more toddler every day but he can't walk yet, so I still feel like he's my baby. He's starting to understand speech and get such a deeper understanding of language lately, it seems. At the beginning of the month I taught him to say "GO!" and now he says it whenever we're going anywhere. In the car, the shopping cart, stroller, just crawling around and pushing his truck. He switches between "doh" and "go" but the sentiment is the same and it's adorable. He's also said "buh bye" a couple times and waved. He is very stingy with waving. Most of the time if you ask him to say bye or wave he'll just stare at you like you're an idiot. He does give out high fives pretty liberally, however.

He crawls like a champion and climbs up on e v e r y t h i n g. He's able to get pretty much everywhere he wants which I think is a big reason he hasn't explored walking too much yet. He's totally content with crawling. He has started standing up a lot on his own and not using the furniture as much when he's standing. The past week we've gotten him to take a couple steps on his own but he'll either fall down or chicken out and sit down and resume crawling. He's close though! I think within the next month we'll have a walker.

Milo has learned how to open doors and cabinets and drawers. He loves taking his toys and putting them in drawers, then taking them out again. Over and over again. He also loves playing peek a boo. He'll hide behind or under something and then pop out when we say PEEKABOO. He thinks it's just hilarious. His favorite toys lately have been trucks. He's got 3 of them now (thank you birthday!) and he is totally content to push them around the house. He takes them everywhere he goes, to bed, to the bath, outside... He always wants a truck in his hand. He even buzzes his lips as he pushes them around and will occasionally make a noise that sounds like "Ohhh yeahhhhhh" He looooves his trucks.

As far as food goes, he pretty much just wants to eat whatever mom and dad are eating. We can still get him to eat the pureed stuff, but only if there isn't "real food" around. If we're eating real food and he's eating pureed peas, he gets extremely offended. So mostly now we're just feeding him off our plates and cutting up whatever we're having. His favorites are chicken nuggets and mac and cheese, or really any kind of pasta. He also loves drinking grape juice from his sippy cup.

Speaking of food, a couple weeks ago he broke out in hives all over his body. He also had some mild eczema for about a week prior. We took him in to get some testing done and found out that he has a mild peanut allergy. The ped said he'll likely outgrow it and it won't be an issue later on, but for now we should avoid peanuts and peanut products. We hadn't really fed him much, but I had given him bites of my peanut butter toast before and he once snuck an entire Reese's cup when I wasn't paying attention. His eczema has totally cleared up since then so I'm happy we figured out what the problem was before it could get any worse.

Milo has 6 teeth now and 2 are verrrrry close to breaking through. He's got four on top and two on bottom. I feel like he's always teething, always chewing on something, and always in need of tylenol or teething tablets. Looking forward to this stage of life being over!

His favorite shows right now are Daniel Tiger and Curious George. He still loves Teletubbies but mom and dad needed a break from it for a little while :) He also LOVES watching videos of himself. Anytime he is crying or upset I just put on a video of him and he is immediately laughing and totally content. He watched videos while getting his blood drawn for the allergy testing, and didn't cry or wiggle at all! It was pretty amazing, honestly.

Overall Milo is just the happiest and easiest baby. I feel so lucky to have had him while I'm finishing up school. I don't think I could do it if he were a baby that screams and doesn't sleep and is super dependent on me all the time. He has made being a mom a breeze and I am just so blessed to have him. I seriously can't believe how much he's changed in just a year. He is just so so so wonderful. I can't say it enough.

Love you, Milo Benny. Happy One Year. :)

Milo | 11 Months

"Are you telling me it's that time of month again??"

Yep, sorry bud. Time to frantically snap away on my camera while shoving you full of cookies in an attempt to get a non-blurry picture before you crawl away.  Believe me when I say that it's absolutely as fun as it sounds. 

(these faces of his kill me, such a goof)

 A Day in The Life of 11 Month Old Milo: Milo wakes up every morning around 7, sometimes 8 if I'm lucky. I make him a bottle and he drinks it in bed while I attempt to get a few more minutes of sleep. Verrrry rarely he will fall back asleep after drinking his bottle and sleep for another hour or so. Those are the best days. But most days he is up and ready to play by 7:30. We go out to the living room and watch a show or two while I get ready, eat breakfast, or snooze on the couch (let's be honest, that's usually what happens) He goes back down for a nap around 9 or 9:30, depending on when he wakes up. At that point it's usually time for me to get ready for school, so I pack up all my stuff and his diaper bag and whatever else he might need while I'm gone. Then I get him up from his nap, change him, buckle him into his stroller, and wheel him off to the babysitters. 

Three-ish hours later I pick him up and bring him home. By this point he's ready for another nap so I give him a bottle and stick him in his crib. He usually falls asleep without a fuss. Then I've got about an hour and a half to myself, wherein I sleep, do homework, clean, eat, shower, read, write, or some combination of them all. Nap time is never long enough. 

Milo wakes up around 3:30 and then we play in the living room basically the rest of the night. haha Sometimes we go outside and watch the cars. Usually we'll watch some more TV (he loves Daniel Tiger, Teletubbies, Baby Genius, and Kitten Party) I'll feed him (bananas, cookies, yogurt, scrambled eggs, crackers, applesauce, squash), which usually then requires bathing him and we basically just hang out until Andrew gets home. Milo's super independent so he just crawls around and plays with whatever random object he's obsessed with that day and I keep an eye on him and intervene when he inevitably puts tiny objects in his mouth (like every 5 minutes). 

I usually try to get Milo out of the house once a day, whether it's driving Andrew to school or going grocery shopping or going to visit a friend. Sometimes we'll just drive around and listen to music. Our house is super tiny and he gets suuuuper stir crazy, especially in the evening when it's getting close to bedtime. So I'll load him up, give him his frog pacifier, turn up the car jams and drive around for 15 or 20 minutes. It does wonders for us both. :) 

He goes to bed between 8 and 8:30, depending on how cranky he is, and then he's out for the night and Andrew and I have a party.

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As far as new additions to this month go: Milo is definitely waving and I swear I've heard him say "bye-bye" a couple times. He's still got two teeth on bottom and his vampire teeth on top his top middle teeth are going to pop through any day now... 

He got his first cold last month and it was the saddest thing ever. Babies with stuffy noses are no joke. Luckily it went away after 3 or 4 days and we're all back to our healthy selves now!

Milo is about 24 lbs. and 31 inches. He's in 12-18 month clothes now and size 4 diapers (although pretty sure he's gonna need to upgrade in the next couple weeks). His hair has started to get really long and thick in the back but he's still super bald on top, except for one stripe right down the center of his head. His baby mohawk, if you will. 

He hasn't really showed much interest in walking yet. He'll walk if we hold his hands and walk with him, but otherwise he hasn't made much of an effort. He just recently has started standing for a few seconds without holding on to anything, but usually he chickens out and sits down as soon as he lets go of something. He says "mama" and "dada" still and a whole lot of other babble in-between. He's gotten to a point where he'll start crying if we take something away from him or if one of us leaves the room and he's all alone. He thinks it's hilarious when Andrew and I laugh, and when I pretend to eat his fingers. (he's always shoving his fingers in my mouth) He still loves animal noises, playing his cat keyboard, and his guitar. He's learned how to look under things and behind things and basically preposition any object he thinks might be hiding something. 

He has such a sweet and hilarious personality and he is endlessly smart. Andrew and I can't believe how smart he is and how quickly he catches on to things. 

I CAN'T BELIEVE I ONLY HAVE ONE MORE OF THESE UPDATES LEFT. I'M GOING TO HAVE A ONE YEAR OLD NEXT MONTH.

Brace yourselves for extreme amounts of emotion on my end. Lots of throwback pictures, guaranteed.

Milo | 10 Months

TEN MONTHS. TEN. I'M GOING TO HAVE A ONE YEAR OLD IN TWO MONTHS.

I also need to mention that the only way I could keep Milo on his back for longer than 2 seconds was to stuff him with puff cereal and yogurt bites so that's why he's got food on his face in some of these pictures. Also that very bottom picture, I am actually sitting on him to get him to hold still. THE THINGS I DO.

Okay, so what you actually came here for. I think Milo is still in the 22 lbs range. The biggest thing I've noticed this month is that he's gotten really long and tall and lost a bunch of his chunky little baby fat. He's really thinned out, I'm sure largely due to how mobile he is now, and he's looking more and more like a toddler every day. 

He's gotten SO good at standing, although he's still too scared to try it without holding onto something. But he stands all day long, and walks along from furniture to furniture, and very very rarely will attempt to let go for a split second. He's also become a really good climber. He can climb up on the couch now without my help and if we had stairs, I'm sure he'd climb those too. 

Milo loves bananas, apples, grapes,  orange creme yogurt, and CHOCOLATE. I can't tell you how many times after Christmas I found him with an entire chocolate, wrapper and all, in his mouth. He cries and cries when we take them away. 

He's learned how to take off his pants, and chooses to do so frequently. I take full responsibility for that one. :)

Milo loooooooves music. He's always been attentive to it, but lately he wants to play it so bad. If Andrew or I are playing any sort of instrument he crawls over and bangs on it, or strums it, or tries to contribute in whatever way he can. We bought him a little kid Mickey Mouse guitar and he carries it around with him and strums on it all day. He loves percussive noises and banging on tables, or chairs, and especially on the djembe. The djembe is his favorite. 

Milo has been mimicking us a lot more. Whenever Andrew or I laugh, he'll start doing this fake laugh that kind of sounds like he's coughing. It's honestly the worst fake laugh in the world, but he thinks it's hilarious and so do we. He's been obsessed with putting his fingers in my mouth and trying to feed me his food. He just wants to be involved in everything I do. (I say this as he's currently trying desperately to type on my keyboard) He also has started waving a little bit. (I've never seen him do it, but Andrew swears that he has) 

Milo says "mom" "dad" "aaaaaAAAT" and "yeeeeee" on a regular basis.  He sleeps 11 hours a night without a peep (usually...lately he's been sleep talking). He's as sweet as he always been and cries so rarely that when he does it doesn't bother me at all. He's always laughing and smiling and talking and acting more like a toddler every day.

He's my favorite little person in the whole world. 

light of my life

happiest of christmases to you.

Milo | 9 Months

Okay I just have to say that taking pictures of a 9 month old while he is on his back on the floor is probably one of the most difficult things I've ever done in my life. You should all be really impressed with what I managed to get.

SO. The Milo B is about 22 lbs now (give or take, i used the good ol' weigh yourself, weigh yourself with the baby trick and then did some very complicated math) and he's about 31 inches. He's in the 95% for height and 55(ish)% for weight and head circumference. He's wearing mostly size 12 month clothes now, although a few 9 months still fit him. He's in size 4 diapers. 

He's gotten so much better at pulling himself up on furniture and not falling over, and he loves walking while holding onto the furniture. He is a climber. Always trying to get up on the couch or the lovesac or up the attic stairs whenever the door is open. If I'm standing up he will almost always crawl over to me and pull himself up using my legs.

He's been really clingy this month. He doesn't cry if I'm not holding, but you can tell he has a strong preference for me and if I'm in the room he usually won't let anyone else hold him, or at least not without a good fight. I don't really mind. :)

He has 4 teeth now, although the top two are still working their way in. I was really surprised when his top canines came in and not his top middle teeth. But I don't think the middle teeth are far behind. The top teeth were definitely a lot more difficult for him coming in than the bottom ones. Thank goodness for baby ibuprofen.

Milo started clapping this month! It's the cutest thing in the whole world, but he will only do it on his terms. He also loves grabbing my hands and clapping them together. He gets this crazy smug smile on his face like he's doing the coolest thing in the world. 

His favorite foods are still bananas and applesauce. Lately I've just been giving him little bits of whatever I'm eating, which he really enjoys. He also LOVES cheerios and these banana flavored wagon wheel..puff...things. 

Milo's favorite toy is his cat keyboard. He's figured out how to work all the buttons and change the songs to the ones he likes. His favorite thing in the woooorld is when we let him play in the recording studio. We'll put a drum on the floor and let him bang on it or let him strum Andrew's guitar. Whenever I play piano in primary he crawls over and pulls himself up to bang on the keys. I also noticed in the past week or so that he has a real affinity for Vivaldi. We watch baby genius shows and listen to a lot of classical music and while he likes all the music (except for that one clarinet piece, can't blame him there though) he really really loves Vivaldi. It's the only time where he is absolutely still and just stares at the TV and won't be distracted by anything. 

He is so smart and independent. He'll play by himself for hours while I work on homework or cook dinner. He never cries unless he is tired or hungry. He sleeps 10-11 hours a night and takes 2-3 naps a day. Usually 2 long naps and then maybe I'll squeeze in a short 3rd one.

His frog pacifier is still his best friend. He loves bath time. He loves mirrors and taking selfies. He hates when I pin him down to change his clothes or change his diaper. And he hates getting out of the bath.

Andrew and I were talking yesterday about how we are in the twilight of his babyhood and it is fading fast. I feel like he's going to be walking in the next couple months and he'll be 1 so soon. He seems like a such a toddler these days and it makes me so happy and sad and excited all at once. I am so so so blessed to be his mama.

weeeeellllllll

i might have taken a bit of an unplanned break from this here blog. real life has kinda been getting in the way of coherent thoughts. bleh, even now i can't even figure out what to say our how to say it or what is pertinent or anythingg.as;galkd;galks;

ramble blog *celebration hands emoji*

so we got in a car accident. not like a terrible one, but we got rear-ended at a stoplight by a lady who was going about 35 mph and just not paying attention even a little. the back end of our car was totally messed up and all the framework had to be redone so that's been in the shop for the past 2 weeks and we've been in a rental.

around this time my depression came back with a vengeance. i've had depression for years but something about being pregnant and having a baby gave me some super great happy hormones for about a year that kept the depression at bay. but alas, it's back. the soonest i could get in with the doctor i want (switching doctors, and this new one has a killer waitlist, but i hear she's worth it) is the first week of december. so until then i'm just riding the waves as they come.

along with this depression has come a huge wave of apathy, which is always great when school is a thing. it's been incredibly hard to motivate myself to do anything, and then when i don't do anything i get crazy anxiety and shut down. it's a lovely cycle. but i'm working at it and just trying to take it one day at a time and do what i can. i dunno. it's frustrating, especially when the past year or so has been so so good. i was kinda hoping i was over that whole depression thing, ya know?

anyway, so onto the happier stuff:
we drove to california and back for fall break and filmed a sweet cover of HAIM with our friend hannah (guys if you don't love HAIM i just don't understand you)

ANDREW GOT A PROMOTION and we're really excited about it. it's gonna make for a lot less stress for this little family of ours.

milo is a crawler and a climber and a talker and just the cutest little guy on the planet really.

we're leaving for philadelphia on sunday to spend a week with my parents! we haven't seen them since milo's blessing way back in may so i'm just a little bit excited to eat yummy food and watch them indulge in the perfection that is milo benny.

THE END IS IN SIGHT. with school, i mean. not life cause that might be a bit depressing, guys. but andrew and i have both planned out our last few semesters! andrew will be done august 2015 and i'll be done in december. THAT'S LIKE. SOON. AH. it feels so good to finally see it coming to an end. most days i can't wait until i'm graduated and can get on with "real life" and whatever, but some days i remember that real life is stressful and jobs and houses and moving somewhere???? i know i'm going to miss this stage of our lives, living in this amazing house, close to relatives, and nothing to worry about but homework and a cute baby. but also the prospect of going anywhere and doing anything is just SO exciting and scary and yes a little stressful. THE FUTURE, MAN. THE FUTURE.

CHRISTMAS ALBUMMMMM. if you don't already know that andrew and i have a band called whisper sands, and that we put out a christmas ep every year for our family then WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR LIFE??? anyway, our album this year is called "Hark!" and i'm really really excited about it. seven delicious christmas songs in all their indie folky pop rock (???) and yeah. you want it. we haven't officially set a release date, but basically right after thanksgiving. so BE ON THE LOOKOUT I'M SO EXCITED.

okay, that's enough of my rambly weirdness for now. HOPE THANKSGIVING IS LOVELY FOR YOU.

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"A portrait of Milo once a week, every week, for his first year"

8 months old couldn't possibly be sweeter

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happy (belated) halloween from my little lion man.

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Milo | 8 Months

Well Milo Benny... here we are. Another month later. You continue to change so very much month to month. I am constantly surprised by you.

Milo is around 20 or 21 lbs now. Still guessing he's about 27 inches, but I could be wrong. He is a constant mover. Getting these pictures was so painfully difficult, you have no idea. He crawls on his hands and knees every where now. None of that army crawl stuff anymore. And he's so fast. He's also been really into climbing lately. Pulling himself up on everything, standing there for as long as he can possibly handle it before toppling over it and (usually) hitting his head on something. That's pretty much my whole life now. Nothing is safe anymore. Andrew and I have been talking about buying him a playpen, because we really don't have a ton of space in our house to put things, so it's been a challenge to baby proof. But Milo is just so fast and strong and determined to get what he wants. He learned how to crawl up on our lovesac and sometimes I'll find him just chillin' in there, chewing on the remote or my phone. Those are his two favorite toys as of late. Basically give him anything that's not an actual baby toy and he will love it. Especially if it can kill him. 

Milo is mostly formula fed now. It makes me a little sad because I loved breastfeeding him. It's just something that has gotten really hard to continue since I've been at school full time. He's just so used to taking a bottle while I'm gone and now he has zero attention span or patience for breastfeeding. But I feel really good about the fact that I did basically exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months. I do hope that I'll be able to breastfeed my future kids longer though, since I won't be in school and therefore have no real excuse not to.  I will say, it's nice to have a break from the food thing however. Just stick a bottle in his mouth and get a little 5 minute break from life... that is a very nice thing :)

Speaking of food, Milo continues to eat just about everything. He loves any and all fruits. Especially bananas, apples, peaches, pears, and mango. He's a bit picky with the veggies. Nothing green will get past his mouth. (Looking forward to that when he's 4...) He does however love carrots, sweet potatoes, corn and mixed veggies. We also started trying some meats this past month. He loves apples with chicken and sweet potatoes with chicken. His favorite snacks are banana puffs, yogurt bites, and whatever he can swipe from my plate. We went to Tucanos on Halloween for Andrew's birthday and he managed to snag a fistful of mashed potatoes. :)

Milo has two teeth now! The first one took aaaaages to pop through, but the second one came in literally overnight and I couldn't believe it. He's got the cutest little grin now. 

He's still sleeping about 11 hours a night, although in the past week or so he's started waking up hungry around 4 am. So I usually make him a bottle and then he'll go back to sleep again until 7ish. And don't get me started on daylight savings. Ugh.

Our favorite games lately are pat a cake, if you're happy and you know it, peek a boo, and especially the wheels on the bus. The other day I started singing the wheels on the bus, except I would sing it with animal noises. "The puppies on the bus go woof woof woof..." Milo LOVED IT. That kid loves animal noises so much. He laughs so hard whenever I meow or quack or bark. I don't know what's so funny about it, but he could seriously laugh at animal noises allllll day.

Milo has gotten a bit more clingy this month. He doesn't cry when I leave him or anything too extreme, but whenever I'm in the room he always crawls over to me and climbs into my lap. He says "mama" and "dada" allllllll the time. For awhile I didn't think he really associated it with us, but I'm almost positive he knows I'm mama now. He uses it whenever he's sad and wants to be picked up, or when he's just woken up from a nap. It basically makes my heart melt every single time. 

He continues to be exceptionally sweet. He rarely cries, he is easy to please, and he smiles at just about everyone. I can't believe I've had him for an entire eight months. Time sure flies with these little guys.

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"A portrait of Milo once a week, every week, for his first year"

Last Halloween I was pregnant with Milo and we had just barely found out that I was going to have a boy. I decided then that his first costume was going to be Charlie Brown. Andrew's dad called him Charlie Brown so it's kind of an homage to him. But also, Charlie Brown is just the cutest. And Milo did not disappoint. :)

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his favorite place in the house; the place where he gets the foodz

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A portrait of Milo once a week, every week, for his first year"

Sleepy dude after a 12 hour road trip to California, and those beautiful baby blues <3

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"A portrait of Milo once a week, every week, for his first year"

I don't know if this is breaking the rules because this is not a picture that I took. HOWEVER, I really couldn't resist because LOOK AT THAT FACE AND THAT HAT AND WOW. He's perfect.

So yeah. We got family pictures done this week by the super fabulous Kelli so you'll probably see a lot of those round here the next few weeks. Hope you don't mind. ;)

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"A portrait of Milo once a week, every week, for his first year"

So I'm really annoyed that blogger is uploading this picture like that???? WHAT THE HECK. But it's still too cute to not upload, so here it is. Weird square and all.

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Milo | 7 Months

GUYS, I have been such a slacker with this blog thing. Like, really really bad. But the good news is that I have been documenting lots in my brain, and on my phone, and with my camera, so I have lots and lots to say in the coming posts! I just have to somehow find the time to do it. Bleh.

BUT THIS. THIS IS IMPORTANT. Milo turned 7 months on the 5th! He continues to be my favorite little person ever, despite the fact that it was almost impossible to get these pictures this month. At his last appointment, about a week ago, he weighed 19 lbs. 10 oz. and was 27 inches long. He actually decreased quite a bit in size, as far as percentages go, but the pediatrician told me not to worry because a lot of babies start slowly down a bit once they become more mobile. So hopefully he keeps a pretty steady pace, even if it's not quite as consistent as it used to be.

Milo is officially a crawler! He still mostly army crawls everywhere, but as of today actually he's started getting on his hands and knees and taking a few steps (crawls??) forward. He's almost there! Now that he's fully mobile he gets into everything. His favorite is our printer. He loves to sit there and pull every sheet of paper out of it and throw them all around until it's a big crinkled unusable mess. He also loves chewing on everything, but especially power cords which is, ya know, not great. Currently we've got our living room conveniently set up so that I can stick him in the middle and he's surrounded on all sides by things that are relatively safe. I have all his toys and books in a basket there and for the most part he's happy to sit there and play with those for awhile. His favorite toys are his cat keyboard, anything that squeaks, and socks. 

Milo is still sleeping a wonderful 11 hours a night. I put him down between 7:30-8 every night and he usually wakes around 7 or 7:30 in the morning. Honestly, that has been the biggest blessing for me because I don't know how I could manage school and being a mom if he still woke up 4 times a night. 

One huuuuge change this month is that Milo has almost zero interest in breastfeeding. I think a big part of that is because he spends lots of time during the day with babysitters and they feed him formula in a bottle. So I think he's more used to bottles now and gets really impatient that breastfeeding isn't as...fruitful as a bottle. Ha. I still breastfeed him every morning and night, but during the day he's too distracted and active to breastfeed. Usually I give him a bottle and he'll drink it over the course of an hour, taking breaks to play and roll around. 

He also looooooves solids. He started eating finger foods this month. I got some banana puffs and berry yogurt bites and he loves them so much. If he ever gets cranky when we're running errands I just give him a handful of puffs and he's good to go.  We've tried just about all the baby foods that walmart has to offer, and then only ones he really can't stand are the green veggies. Peas, green beans, and sometimes squash. Everything else he gobbles up in mere minutes. He's always interested in what mom and dad are eating and always begging to hold and suck on whatever we have. I'm pretty lenient with stuff like that, as long as I'm close by. He's chewed on pizza crust, crackers, pita chips, popsicles... anything he can get his hands on. Yesterday we found a piece of chalk that had been in his mouth for who knows how long...??? We are stellar parents.

I ALMOST FORGOT! Milo has a TOOTH! After a couple terribly sad and clingy days, we finally saw a tiny little tooth pop through, right in the middle on the bottom. Milo handled it well, all things considered (thank goodness for tylenol) and that little tooth sure is a cutie. 

He is growing up too fast, but I sure love that guy. He gets more and more fun every day. He is so smart and charming and happy. Everyone always comments on how sweet he is. Also, he has the most perfect hair/eye color combination. And those eyebrows?? Ahhhh. I got lucky with this one.

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"A portrait of Milo once a week, every week, for his first year"

thrilled to death that he's learned to feed himself puff cereal

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I am painfully excited for winter weather with this cute baby and his hat/sweater collection.

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milo loves sitting on our front steps in the early evenings and watching the cars go by. we're gonna miss this warm weather when it's gone.

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handsome like daddy, indeeeeeed.

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