Growing Up.

Time just keeps moving along...and Jack just keeps growing and learning new things every day. He continues to use his sign language to "talk" to us (ex: the other day he dirtied his diaper and then signed "change" to Daddy...letting him know that he had a dirty diaper...amazing). He and Daddy wait for me to drive home at night and they stand by the window together and watch me pull in. (Prompting him to say "MoMom" and then sign "car"). Each morning when we wake up as Nana is leaving for work, we waive goodbye to her as she leaves for work. I love these little rituals we are building together.
Just as I felt it was getting to be time to start weaning him from nursing (I have begun pumping once less during the day at work and am reducing my Reglan pills to 1/2 a day instead of a whole pill) he has begun to nurse more! He wants "num nums" all of the time...and he wakes up throughout the night to nurse (and he really nurses). I am not sure if he is just going through a growth spurt or if this is part of the separation anxiety that he is going through. (He wants Mommy all of the time.) He prefers the breast milk in a bottle to the regular milk he has started drinking. (He will drink regular milk but isn't too thrilled with it.)

He is eating everything very well. I don't think there is anything that we have given him that he hasn't liked. He eats a lot too. This morning, for instance, he had a small bowl of Cheerios and milk, one scrambled egg with cheese and a small tub of applesauce...and 10 minutes after he ate he was asking Nana for some of the toast she was eating. I think it is unusual for a 1 year old to eat so much and to like everything offered to him...but I am not complaining.
He loves his Nemo and Lion King DVDs...but his Baby Einsteins are still his favorites. He watches Dora and Blues Clues on Saturday mornings now...and LOVES the books "Go Dog Go", "Brown Bear, Brown Bear," "Where's Spot", and his "Mother Goose" books. He wakes up first thing in the morning and signs "book" so that I will read to him.

He now says a modified "on" and "off" when the tv or lights are turned on and off and he loves to turn them on and off if we hold him up to a light switch or he finds a remote control (which he can use very well.) He also says "Mama" when someone is on the phone...as I talk to him on the phone while I am at work. He is growing up so fast!

This morning I discovered his first molar is coming through! I can't believe it....where has our Baby Jack gone? I am not sure...but I am loving every new stage we go through!