Robbie just turned 15 months. His pediatrician said he looks healthy. I asked if it's odd that he's not pointing or waving or handing me things yet, but she said we'll probably see him doing those things before his 18th month. He weighed 22 lbs and was 31 inches long.
He started walking a month ago and now he walks pretty steadily wherever he wants. When he gets sleepy though he starts to stumble a bit and looks like he's drunk. Ever since he learned to walk he lost all interest in sitting down and playing with a toy. He spends most of his time walking around and exploring. He tries to open all cupboards and drawers in the kitchen. We finally had to secure them with a baby lock. He likes to crawl on top of furniture like the sofa or bed. He constantly wants to go outside and walk around there.
Making him sit down at the table to eat for a few minutes is torture. He'll last 10-15 minutes, but then wants to get down and we have to chase him around with the rest of his meal.
He's not talking yet, but he understands a lot of Czech words. Especially words that I use on a daily basis like names of foods, diaper changes, taking a walk, taking a bath, etc.. He has decided that since Jef and I each seem to have our own language, he's going to have one of his own too. He has at least 4 of his own "words" that I've noticed. He has a sound for each of the words dog, cat, duck and shoes. Shoes, are "i", duck is "AH", dog is a softer type of "ah", and cat is "iou" (like miou without the m"). Lately he's decided that all birds are ducks though so today he was saying "AH" "AH" at all the pigeons at a park we went to.
He's also a budding artist. I noticed one day that he picked up a pen I left on the coffee table and started tapping it on the paper so that it made lines. I decided to bring down some crayons and paper to see what he'd do with it and he had lots of fun holding a crayon in each hand and tapping them on the paper. Every now and then he'd pick up a different color and tap with that. He made a lot of lines and dots. A few days later we tried it again and he was learning to make lines better by moving the crayons on the paper. Right now he only has the patience to try for a short minute and then he's walking off again.
He's been very healthy since he got the ear tubes in his ears. He had a runny nose for a few days last month, but this time it just stayed a runny nose and didn't develop into an ear infection. I could see some fluid draining from the ears, so the tubes were doing their job.
Posted by pjakobs at May 22, 2005 05:15 PM