I took Dawson to his one year apt. last Friday. I sure do despise well-child checks.. Dawson was a pretty happy kid pre-checkup, now.. he is a nightmare.. (to put it nicely). Dawson has a really hard time after he gets his shots, he is super grouchy and attached to my hip 24/7. I don't remember when Landon went through his "mom only" stage, but Dawson seems to have hit it earlier than Landon. He only wants me and it get's tiring, literally! My whole body throbs at the end of the night just from holding him all day. Good thing us women have hips, or I would never cope.
Regardless of his super clinginess, his personality is starting to shine. We are loving him more and more every day! He is walking everywhere now, it's so cute. He is accumulating quite the battle wounds to prove it!
I wanted to record some fun things about Dawson at this age, starting with his one year stats:
He is 30.5 inches long, 24.2 pounds. Which puts him in the 80th for height and 75th for weight. He is right where he needs to be developmentally.
Fun things to know about Dawson:
He loves, loves, loves Deer and Bears. He used to be able to clasify each one and say their names (and even growl when he saw a bear) but since learning the word, dog, everything has now turned into a dog. Which sounds more like "gog." He really loves balls also. When he sees one he gets really excited, points to it and says "BUH!" Right up there with his love for balls is his love for Balloons or "boon."
He gets really excited when I say "Dawson, do you want to eat?" He'll immediately go to his highchair and SCREAM until I put him in. He love's to feed himself, but hates when we try to feed him. If any other baby sits in his chair he gets very angry and will scream while trying to pull them out.
Dawson is also great at throwing temper tantrums. When he gets upset he'll pull himself on his knees in an almost standing position and throw his body backwards. He usually always hits his head on something, but it still doesn't stop him from doing it the next time.
He sleeps great at night now. He still wakes up at 5:20 most every morning. We've tried putting him to bed earlier and later, it doesn't matter, 5:20 is his time to rise and shine to start the day. Dave is usually the one to get up with him (thanks Dave).
Landon's Paper Cutting and Hoarding abilities
I was going to post on this a while ago and never got around to it. This is something some would find boring to read about, but I think he is so funny and I never want to forget this funny stage of life he is in.
He loves to have stuff. It doesn't really matter what it is, as long as someone gave it to him and there's a lot of it. If there is anything that has lots of little pieces or a bag full of stuff, any type of stuff, Landon is all over it. He likes to save things FOREVER too. I sometimes think he would forget about something if it sat in his drawer long enough, but he will always ask me where whatever I threw away is, even if I haven't seen him with it for weeks! I swear, he doesn't forget anything. It can be something as simple as a grocery add I gave him.
His newest hobby includes paper and scissors. He loves any type of paper, he loves when the mail comes, in hopes that there will be some paper I don't need that he can cut! This kid can sit and cut for hours! He used to have the kid scissors, but likes to get a more precise cut. I let him graduate to these. I guess if he cuts himself we'll downsize. Church has come to be more enjoyable to us all, now that he can sit in sacrament and cut away!
It's not uncommon to find piles like this all over the place, but usually they end up here:
I will seriously clean these two drawers out once or twice a week, always getting a full garbage bag. I always leave a few scraps of paper so he wont notice all his paper cuttings gone. Last week he got mad and came running down the stairs saying "Who cleaned all the crap out of my drawers!?" Funny boy.
His love for paper (quantity or course) became so important to him, and carrying all this stuff around, got too hard for him. My mom decided she would give him this binder. He loves to add all of his important documents to it. This usually ends up in the drawer for safe keeping as well.
Aunt Lori gave Landon her new wallet yesterday. Most kids would think this was cool, but it would soon be forgotten. Well, let's just say this has gone everywhere Landon has today. Could he fit any more cards in there? Thanks Lori!
