Calvin Tyler: February 2016

So glad to be done doing the weekly posts! Hoping I can keep the monthly ones up until he's two. Boy oh boy do we have our hands full with this little daredevil now. He's realized he can use the art table chairs to help him get into things. We're working on not standing on them, and he's doing better, but not perfect. He still stands on them some and I've caught him standing on the art table and using them to climb onto the kitchen table. Other things Calvin's been up to this month include:
- preferring to walk over crawl. He usually still walks with his hands by his face for balance, but crawling is done. He even will walk with things in his hands now too.
- allergy testing. He's allergic to peanut and egg, but not dairy like we thought.
- waving - it's a small little wave, but he's getting the hang of it
- sleeping through the night!!!! Only took us 12.5 months with this kiddo, which is one month less than our previous record.
- cutting teething like crazy
- climbing, climbing, climbing. His music table...sure. Caleb's stool in the bathroom...absolutely. The ladder to Caleb's bed...not even a challenge.
- Climbing up and down stairs. He's a pro going up the stairs but may give me a heart attack going down. He waits until the last possible second to turn around when going down them. He does pretty well going down them on his belly, but refuses to back into them and instead gets himself sitting right at the top of them. He hasn't tumbled yet, but I also don't let him get near them alone!

His typical daily schedule goes like this:
7:00-7:30 - wake up, immediately eat breakfast
8:30 - nurse
9:30 - some type of outing/errands
10:00 - snack
11:30 - lunch
12:30 - nurse/nap
2:30 - wake up
3:00 - snack
4:30-5:00 - cup of milk/snack while I cook dinner
5:30 - dinner
7:30 - snack, nurse, bedtime

Do you see a trend....this kid eats all the time! He easily eats as much as Caleb at every meal and snack, and often more. I took the kiddos to the children's museum and ordered three meals (two kids portions and one adult). We ate it all and no one was stuffed. When the whole family goes out to eat, we can still get by with three meals because Caleb often picks from the adult part of the menu and between the three of our meals, Calvin has some of all and is happy. I made stuffed chicken last week and made four chicken breasts thinking the boys and I would eat the leftovers for lunch. There wasn't even half a chicken breast left over. We're nursing about three times a day, unless I'm gone for one of them and then he usually skips it and refuses the bottle. I'm feeling about ready to be done, or at least ready to just do before bed. I hit a wall when Caleb was almost 15 months old and just couldn't do it another second and just quit that day. I think that's going to be the case for Calvin soon too. We made it over a year and I'm happy with that, so no guilt for me if I suddenly decide one day soon that it's been long enough. I don't think he will starve!