The Erwins: Andrew {1 Year Old!}

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Andrew {1 Year Old!}

We made it to a year! :) I can't believe how fast this past year went...so crazy! I don't even know where to start with this one....I haven't been keeping track of what I wanted to say for the wee boy for the past month....although he's not such a wee boy anymore! At his 1 year appt he weighed 24 lbs and was 30 3/4 in long, both being in the 90th percentile. And he's really just all of sudden become a little toddler and is LOVING it! I swear...he hit the 1 year mark and is just now all boy/all play/all over the place! His biggest achievement, which has attributed a lot to his big boy attitude, is that he can walk now!

He's been walking along stuff for awhile now and about 3 weeks ago he started talking a step or two by himself, then the next week a bit more distance and before his birthday he was full on walking! The past week he's been working on turning and pivoting and has gotten pretty good at that too. He's pretty funny though...he's pretty good with his balance but likes to walk around with his hands up to help him, it's pretty cute. Mark says he looks like a little chimp walking like that ;) Andrew is pretty pleased with himself though, he gets so excited about things and when he does new things. He's so cute!

He loves "running" around the house, chasing Evelyn and Mark. He really loves to play ball...he throws it and chases it or throws it to someone. He's getting more and more better at actually playing, with toys and with Evelyn, which is nice for me! I think she's glad he can play more now although she doesn't always want to.One of their favorite things to do is yell at each other though...Evelyn will hide sometimes and he'll "find" her and then they'll yell at each other as loud as they can...super fun :)

He did get a lot of toys for his birthday and is having fun playing with them. He's starting to try and figure things out more and putting things together. He's definitely in that curious little stage. He's definitely playin more like a big kid though...he's been trying to build with the blocks we have, he's started to "draw" more with the chalk outside, and the last time we went to the beach he was "helping" dig a hole with Evelyn. I've never seen him focus and do something like that before. :) It was so cute! But at the same time super sad...he's definitely not my baby anymore! Along with that he's becoming a bit more of a daddy's boy...it's SO super cute when Mark comes home...Andrew will run to him screaming (if he's not in his high chair anyway) and give him a big hug and will stay with his daddy for most of the rest of the night. I'll try to take him sometimes and he'll push away and stay with his dad. Cute, but sad :( But I'm glad he's loving on his daddy! Mark gets a little jealous with the babies and how clingy they are to me (totally not my fault...can't help that I'm the food source! We're pretty much done with nursing Andrew though so he's definitely gotten over the whole cling to mom thing).

Another accomplishment Andrew has is climbing...well he's been able to climb for awhile, like the stairs I mentioned before, but now he's climbing on more things...he tries to climb on the couch and can do it when he has one of us to pull on, but his favorite thing is to find one of Evelyn's stools and he climbs on top of those. He mostly does it with the one in the playroom...he pushes it up to the kitchen and climbs up so he can reach more things on the kitchen...but then he can't get down and he gets mad. So I'll be in the kitchen or something and he'll be playing and he'll start crying and I'm like...are you stuck again? And he usually is :) Luckily he's pretty cautious and stays instead of falling :)

One of Andrew's favorite things to do though is EAT! Man this boy can eat! And he's impatient about it too!! If anyone has something and he doesn't, I swear he can sense it, even if he's in the other room, and he zooms right over and starts begging :) He also zooms over to the kitchen when I start making dinner and he loves to watch inside the oven. He'll eat anything though and most of the time eats more than Evelyn or at least the same amount! Granted Evelyn would rather snack throughout the day and have tiny meals but still...he totally eats more than her.

Andrew hasn't really made much progress in terms of speaking real words but he is trying more and paying more attention to words. He is doing better sleeping-wise too for the most part. He'll wake up once usually but is sleeping for the main part of the night, which is nice! Now I've got to adjust to not waking up regularly... :) He's still doing pretty well with naps too...he takes 2-3 naps a day still which is super nice.

Let's see...well I don't really have too much else to say about the boy! He's just such an adorable, happy, sweet little guy and I just love having him in our family!