Nate is One

So the day I've been dreading and looking forward to is finally here, Nate is one year old! While I'm so excited for this next part in his life and all the new things this means, he is now officially a toddler and I am sad that he is no longer a baby. Although I think he will always be my baby.

He's walking now. He usually doesn't get too far before falling down, but he's always so proud either way. It seemed to happen just like that. He was taking a couple of steps at a time and then one day he just got the hang of it. He loves to walk and will get up after falling down several times just to keep practicing. Although if he wants to get somewhere quickly, he will crawl (like to Daddy when he comes home from work or to the dog food bowl because he still thinks he can beat me there).

He's also completely on cow's milk now too. Yes, I'm finally done with the pumping!! I cannot express how exciting this is for me. I officially stopped last Friday, and was down to only pumping once a day, but it felt so good to pack up the pump and put it in the closet. He won't take his milk right out of the fridge, but I am working on heating it less and less so now it's not even lukewarm but more of a room temperature. My plan is to slowly decrease it until he will take it straight out of the fridge.

He can also drink sitting up! This is a big accomplishment for him. I've been trying to teach him for awhile now, but every time he wouldn't know to raise the bottle up so he wouldn't get any milk. He would become frustrated and throw the bottle across the room. He can also drink out of a sippy cup, but only the soft spout type. Which is also an accomplishment because for the longest time he thought sippy cups were chew toys and would just chew on the end. So now we have to work on drinking out of a regular sippy cup.

I think those are the only big changes from last month.

How am I doing with him turning one you ask? I'm okay. If I think about it too much I will get sad. And I've been looking through all his old pictures lately. It doesn't help that I have baby fever again either. But I always try to remind myself that every stage is exciting and that I'm going to enjoy it all, and hopefully stop here and there long enough to really take it all in. Because I know that life goes by quickly and I don't want to take these moments for granted.