Kaua is 13 months old today. He is still as cute as ever. He is not walking and seems perfectly content to just cruise. He stands on his own more and more every day, but hasn't really tried to take any steps on his own. He can walk (very tentatively) when holding onto my hands though. It's high time I get him good shoes though. I have some cheapies from walmarta but they're not very bendy, so he has a hard time walking or doing anything with his feet in those.Poor guy was playing out in the yard yesterday when the hubsters and I were weeding and he got blister burns all on the tops of his toes from sraping the ground and cement when crawling. He eventually started crawling on his feet and hands, kinda like a bent over walk, b/c his feet were so sore. He was a champ though and didn't complain once, so of course I didn't notice the burns until it was too late. He didnt' even complain during bath when I washed his feet. I swear, this boy has a high tolerance for pain b/c he'll whack his head on a wall or somehting and it wont phase him. Though, this doesn't mean I want to test him either.
The boy is still a HUGE mommies boy and will wail at the top of his lungs when I leave the room. while this is endearing, this is also stressful, b/c I have to sneak away often or bring him with me whenever I leave the room.
and ofcourse, we haven't sleep trained him, so he STILL sleeps with us for half the night. He'll wake up screaming blood murder and I have to bring him into our bed and give him a bottle of milk to quiet him down. Ugh, talk about doing the things you're totally advised NOT to do in "the books". Yeah, "the book" says we need to get them to fall asleep on their own, in their crib, which totally doesn't happen. "the book" also says not to give them milk at night b/c it could rott their teeth (yup, I'm guilty of that too), and "the book" says to try not to pick them up in their cribs when they cry at night for you....(sorry, I totally pick him up and bring him in our room). So I know, I'm doomed to be one of those parents who has a 3 year old in bed with them. Who in the heck has the time or the energy to pull middle of the night contest of wills to train their kids to sleep on their own and not have a bottle? who???? All I know is, I'm in survival mode when it comes to getting Kaua to sleep and sleep well throughout the nite, so if he needs that bottle and to sleep with me in order for both of us to get some sleep, then so be it. One day I'll figure this "book method" out.....hopefully.
