Today

Porter didn't have a bottle today!!! He was a little fussy and hard to get to sleep tonight, but we did it. Hopefully we're making a big step toward less dishes and no more drop-ins.
We decided to get serious about the bottle thing this week. Porter has been drinking waaayyy too much milk, and since he doesn't drink as much milk when we give it to him in a cup, it just made sense--we could kill 2 birds with 1 stone. So we told the daycare our plan and let them do a lot of the dirty work. (Daycare comes in really handy that way.) He went all day today without a bottle, so I decided to see how he would do tonight. I didn't think it would be too bad since I've been cutting back on how much milk he gets at bedtime for the last 2 nights and he put up a little fight, but only for about 15 seconds (I'm not even sure you can count that a a fight). Since we've cut back on the milk he finally started eating better. He was eating maybe 2 bites of something all day (yes, I really mean all day), but for the last couple of days he has actually eaten something at every meal, and tonight at supper he ate a lot. Chicken, fries, and 2 mini Oreos. That doesn't really sound that good, but it's great compared to eating nothing.



Here he is.... Very strange---he constantly puts his index finger or thumb in his left ear when he eats. And rubs whatever he is eating in his hair behind his right ear. Very gross. We have to go straight to the tub after supper.
He's almost got 2 more top teeth, can give "high five," waves (at inappropriate times), and has started cruising along the furniture. He loves to "practice" walking while holding your hands, clap for himself, dance to any music (even his glow worm), unroll the toilet paper, turn on and off the water in the tub, open and close doors and drawers, and go "aaahhh" to scare you when you try to play peek-a-boo. I'll have to try to get a little video of that to show what I mean. And he'll be 1 year old in 1 week!!!

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