Sammy 12 Months

Sammy at 12 months is a handful!

Whenever we take the kids in for a well-child checkup there is always a questionnaire to fill out and at the end it always asks us the describe our child's personality. This time I wrote 2 words -

strong-willed and happy.

Other words to describe Sammy? Curious, mobile, excited, Momma's Boy. Sammy knows what he wants and now has some of the skills to make it happen.

He knows how to climb stairs (still working on getting down them), he climbs (the bathroom sink is now a favorite destination), and he walks! As mentioned in a previous post, he took a step or two the day before his birthday but did the actual walking on his birthday, in front of most of his guests!

We've been working with Sammy on his sleeping habits this past month. We had, unfortunately gotten into the habit of nursing him to sleep and then nursing him during the night, with him ending up in our bed most of the night. That needed to stop. Desperately. So we worked on it and the first night seriously sucked. After that, he's gotten much better. He goes down by himself now and sleeps through the night about half the time. We'll keep working on it and hopefully he'll get it soon!

Sammy's favorites right now: Strawberries, bananas, noodles, cheese, climbing, anything with buttons/electronic - especially cell phones.

At his appointment he weighed in at 22 lbs. 15 oz. (49%) and I can't remember the length but it was in the 83%. So he's tall and skinny but definitely solid and healthy!