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Silas is on the move, and knows what he wants. He can feed himself and eats whatever we eat. He can get from one activity to the next without needing us to carry him. In one year he went from completely helpless, to an active and independent little boy. He has brought so much joy to us this past year and we look forward to many more birthdays to come.
Traits at 12 months:
1) Walk hesitantly while holding on with only one hand. You can tell he gets tired more quickly as he is really working on his balance, but he gets better everyday.
2) Walk around tables and furniture. He cruises from one end of the room to the other, holding on to the wall or anything else he can find.
3) Wave on command. When we ask him to wave in either English or Danish he immediately does it without us having to show him.
4) Clap – he hasn’t quite mastered clapping on command, but when the mood moves him he claps and smiles proudly.
5) Make animal noises. More correctly he can make ONE animal noise….When you ask him what does the snake say?…sssss…is what you will hear. I will give Søren the credit for the snake being the first animal noise he can make.
6) Make elephant noises. There is a picture of an elephant on the front of his animal picture book, when ever he sees the book he starts squealing like an elephant.
7) Knows what he wants! Silas has definitely developed a will this past month. If something catches his eye, he will whine and point until we figure it out. Then if it is something that he cannot have, he throws a little tantrum.
8) Understand NO, and then do it anyway. He is not allowed to touch the TV, and he knows it, but he crawls over to the TV anyway, the whole time stopping up to make sure we are watching. Then he crawls up on to the TV table, smiles looking us straight in the eyes and then gives it a whack. Then he laughs when we calmly take him away.
9) Climb over everything including: The bean bag chair, us, the couch, his swing, every type of toy (preferebly the big ones) and even tries to climb off of the bed or couch onto the floor.
10) Clean up after himself. Silas likes putting things back in the bins. Sometimes after making a big mess he will start putting things back before we even ask him, but if we do ask him and hand him some pieces he will have things cleaned up in no time.
11) Give high-five! This is said the exact same way in both English and Danish (the Danes actually use the English phrase) so he get a lot of practice with this one.
12) Understands a lot of commands. As above, waving, clapping, snake sounds, high-five, putting things away, but also things like “turn it over” when he is trying to put a block through a hole, or “come here” if we are leaving to go to a different room. In all these commands it is very clear that he understands both languages.
13) Say Hi/hej! Its official, we believe Silas’ first word is HI/HEJ. He says it every time after we say it to him and many times when we wave. Again this word is pronounces the same in both languages, so maybe that’s why it is his first.
14) Answer questions. His answers aren’t always consistent, but he can hear the inflection in our voices when we ask him a question, and he usually answers with an “eh”, “ej”, “ah”, response.
15) Been to the dentist! He has 8 perfect teeth and some of the big molars on their way.
16) Can eat with a fork, as long as we put the food on it for him. He tries to stick the food with his fork, but has not quite mastered that yet.
17) Weighs 10.9 kg (24 pounds) and is 77 cm tall (30 inches)
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| Happy in the sandbox |
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| If it doesn't taste very good, why do I keep eating it? |
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| On the way home from the Dentist. |
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