I REALLY AM A GOOD BOY!!

So I am so glad I waited to meet Santa this year. I didnt have to deal with the long lines at the mall because my ward for church had Santa for our ward Christmas party and he was an awesome Santa. Miles on the other hand didnt think so. Everyone did warn me though that he wouldnt be happy this year when he met Santa and they were right as you can see!!

FALLING BEHIND!!

Now that I work its hard to find time to update blogs, but I finally got around to it. Miles is now 14 months and he is getting to be such a smart, fun, energic, amazing etc. etc. etc. little boy. He is finally walking non stop and did it towards the end of Oct. Its nice because now when we are out we can just set him down and hold his hand and he will walk. However he is getting into everything. He was before but now its worse. He is still doing great in daycare and has now gotten to the point where I can drop him off and he wont even cry. He just waves and blows kisses and does his thing. It makes me sad but at the same time very happy that he is so independent. He is learning alot which is so wonderful to see. He loves to sit in his room and read some books and go around the house and says "Whats that". There is a video on here of him saying that. He can also blow kisses which just melts my heart.
For Halloween this year he went as a monkey and I went as a banana. I thought it was clever. He had a good time once we got started. He knew what to do and that was dig into the candy when we went to the doors. Luckily he did know only to crab one at a time. :)
We took him to his first dentist apt a couple days ago. I wanted to take some pics but my camera was acting up so I will just do it at his next one in 6 months. He did an awesome job and the doc said he has a mouth of a 2 year old. He was shocked that his 1 year old molars are fully in (have been since 9 months of age), and that he has up to 16 teeth. That is totally not normal for a 14 month old. But they are coming in fine and he has no cavities. Miles loves brushing his teeth though so I am glad about that.
Anyways he is doing good so enjoy the pics and the videos of my little guy.

DAYCARE!!

Well Miles has now been in daycare for 2 weeks and he is loving it. There are some days that he has a hard time when I drop him off but he gets over it pretty quicky. The teacher says that in the beginning he had a hard time every time someone would come in the room and than leave. He does that at home though it so funny. He just freaks out when the door open and closes. From the notes that we get from his teachers at the end of the day it seems like my child loves to paint and brush his teeth. The other day they were painting with tooth brushes and Miles was trying to stick the tooth brush in his mouth. The good thing about the whole thing is that he likes to brush his teeth the bad thing is its with paint and not tooth paste. No worries though the paint is not toxic. Anyways I am so glad that we decided to put him in the daycare and not in a home daycare. He is learning so much and I know that a TV is not babysitting my kid for 5 hours a day. He is learning to get along with other kids and learning to not be such a mommy and daddy's boy. Though we still have some of those days :). If you see in the post before this he is starting to get to know what we are asking him to do. There are days when he will help clean up his toys and knows right where they need to go. I was very iffy about doing this with him but I am so grateful that we have found a great daycare to watch our little boy. And I am so glad that he is growing up to be a wonderful boy. I will be getting pictures soon of him in his classroom so you can see how well he is enjoying it.

SMART BOY!!

So I am not sure who should get the credit for this one but I love it and it makes my proud. And what I mean by who should take the credit is if daycare should or if I should. Miles new thing to say is "whats that" so I tell him what things are when he says that. Well this book he loves to death and when he gets to the dogs he says "whats that" so I say its the doggy and than I bark. Well now it has come down to this. But I am also not sure if daycare does things like this also. Either way I am happy my son is becoming a smart kid.

1 YEAR PHOTOS!!

We finally found time for Kody to come over and do Miles 1 year photo shoot. It was at 6:30pm but lucky for us Miles was a happy boy. They turned out so good I love them all. Thanks Uncle Kody

MILES WANTING TO WALK!!

So my dad came over to drop off a toy box for Miles and he was able to get a quick video of Miles taking a few steps. Sorry the video is so dark but its off his phone.

MILES 1 YEAR STATS!!

Well yesterday we had Miles 1 year doc appt and it was not a good appt at all. First and for most here is his stats. He is still growing and getting on track.

Weight: 19lbs 11 ounces= 10 percentile
Height: 30 1/2= 75 percentile
Head: 18 1/2= 70 percentile

So the appt didnt go well because they had to do three shots and draw blood. When it came time to draw his blood the nurse lost the vein so she was moving the needle around in his poor arm trying to get the vein again. Finally she gave up and moved to the hand. Well needless to say he was dehydrated I think so they werent able to draw the blood, so this morning we had to go to the lab and do it again. This time was a success. The doctor told us to try everything and anything now for foods except for things that he can choke on. This makes it much easier for me to figure out what to feed him now instead of thinking will the doctor care if we do this. So this morning we decided that we would try toast with light peanut butter on it and well I guess he had an allergic reaction to it. I wasnt home because I had my own appt but Brandon said that Miles start sneezing, sticking his tongue out to pant, and his face turned bright red and started to get blisters on it. When I got home I called the doctor to see what needed to be done and he said just wash off his face and give him some benadryl so thats what I did and it worked.

Now that he is one I have decided that I need to start taking something away from him meaning the bottle or the bink. I wanted to start with the bottle but that is going to be harder than I thought. He can go without drinking anything if I did that, so I decided we would start with the pacifier. Today is day 2 and it has been going really well. He has been going to bed without it and it he only cries for a few minutes and than is out. I think I will start on the bottle within the next month. He does take the sippy but wont take it first thing in the morning or at night so we shall see what to do about that.

Miles now has all 4 molars in and has 12 teeth total. Hard to believe he has a mouth full of teeth. He is still crawling but is trying to get walking down. He can stand for long periods of time without hanging onto anything but when he tries to take steps he falls forward. We have started walking around the house with him just holding his one hand and that seems to be helping with the balance. So I am hoping within the next few weeks he will be a walker.

Other than that he is doing great and is still the happiest boy. I love him so much. :)