Mama Mirocha: Miles

What a month we've had! Miles is "talking" so much the last month. What amazes me the most is how smart toddlers are at this age -- much smarter than we think they are or give them credit. He nods his head yes or shakes it no when we ask him questions. "Do you want to go downstairs and play?" "Do you want to read this book?" After dinner when it's bath time we'll say "It's time for bath!" and he'll drop whatever he's doing and 'run' to the bathroom. He knows where his belly, nose and eyes are and can tell you what a lion and cow say. He understands when he want to go down stairs he needs to go on his belly and slide down. He can consistently blow kisses and somewhat enjoys brushing his teeth after bath while we get him in his jammies. This is obviously a huge win because everyone who knows me well knows how important dental hygiene is to me! Miles is obsessed with books (finally!). He loves sitting in our laps and pointing and "talking" to each page. He's not much of a cuddle bug so I love reading books with him. We visited Santa this year and it was everything I had hoped it would be -- Miles enjoyed walking through Santa's toy land and he HATED Santa and we got the most epic photo to cherish forever (see below).

Sleep: Bug has officially transitioned to one nap a day in the last month or so. He usually goes down around noon and will sleep for 1-2 hours (less if he's at school and more when he's at home). He goes down every night around 6pm and wakes up around 7:30am.

Food: We are DONE with bottles!!! WOOHOO! This is by far one of the top five milestones of Miles' life (walking, crawling, eating solids, rolling over are the other four in my opinion). The clean, clutter-less (for the most part) counter-top is so amazing! Makes me feel like our kitchen is twice as big. Miles' current favorite foods are still bananas, waffles, PB&J, veggie patty's and Mimi's beans. It's hit or miss with avocado, sweet potato, zucchini and carrots. Oh, and mac & cheese. Lord help me, I hope he learns to like M&C and other pastas or we're screwed. Luckily he gets a wide variety of foods at his school so I don't feel AS guilty giving him roughly the same things every night.

Words: mama, dada, puppy (he sounds French and over-emphasizes the EE sound (pup-EEEE), car, truck, tractor, please (sounds like peas and it's the cutest sound you've ever heard), duck, ball, papa and hi. He LOVES saying hi. The other morning when he woke up he said "hiiiii" in his crib before we even went in to his room. He says "uh-oh" ALL the time and he makes the cutest little O with his mouth and over-exaggerates the sound. My heart melts just thinking of it.