Age: 12 months
Corrected: 8 months
Weight: 19 pounds 8 ounces
Length: 30 inches (rounding it between everything I have been told)

I found a link to a really cool interactive growth chart this week. According to this chart:

For Ty’s actual age, he is in the following percentiles:

6% – Weight
51% – Length

For Ty’s corrected age, he is:

42% – Weight
96% – Length

Many people assume that Ty is a chubby baby because of his cheeks LOL! He actually is quite skinny though, thus the lesser weight percentages.

Earlier in the week I posted that Ty figured out an army crawl the night before his first birthday. In the span of a week he has matured these skills so expertly that he is thinking of joining the Navy Seals next month. Tanner and I are bone weary of chasing him. My house is no longer safe and the childproofing must begin. Some kids you can teach to leave mamma’s stuff be (Tanner), other children you just have to get mamma’s stuff the heck out of the way if you ever want to see those items in one piece again. Any guesses which category of children Ty is falling into?

Let me just list a few examples from this week:

He LOVES our big screen TV. Apparently, the soft speaker screen at the bottom is very interesting. He is NOT easy to distract once he sets his heart on something (hmmmm….sounds familiar). When I lay him on the rug in the front room he belines for that screen. I pull him away, he yells at me, heads straight back. We do this in cycles over and over and over til I am huffing and sighing and Tanner is echoing me saying “Mommy! I tired dis kid!”

Now let me just pause and address something. In our home, we do not allow anyone to say “I am tired of you” (though Tanner did try to softly deliver that line directed at me once this week…they always gotta try it). I have been explaining to Tanner that it is okay to say we are tired of a behavior but we don’t say we are tired of a person. He isn’t quite getting it.

Back to my story…

Yes I have tried to distract Ty with toys. It doesn’t work. When he wants the screen, he wants the screen. I have sat in front of it trying to create an obstacle and block his line of vision and he simply attempts to crawl right over me.

While this has been frustrating trying to keep little one away from the TV, my heart also swells with gratitude. God gave Ty an abundance of determination and it is an awesome thing to see. To watch that little mind working away to achieve exactly what he wants. To watch him make his body cooperate even if that means dragging himself using only his arms (although he is starting to use the legs more to push off). And he knows how to hussle too! You should see what happens when he hussles across a room after Tanner’s toys and Tanner removes them at the last moment. Oh you should hear it! Ty calls his big brother out and has no sense of intimidation about it AT all.

Tanner has gotten to be an expert a wagging his finger in Ty’s direction and giving instructions. Tanner is so nurturant with Ty and helps me watch him a lot. This week all I have heard is “Mommy! Ty’s doin’ it again”.

One day I decided enough was enough on the tv issue and I put him in his walker. Mistake. I left the room BRIEFLY and came back to him at my end table sucking on the phone base and going for my lamp chord. So much for the walker.

Thankfully, he does enjoy the playpen some so Tanner and I do get a few minutes a day to be somewhat “off duty” LOL.

Yesterday I was really amazed at Ty’s determination. I was in the shower and Ty was strapped in his bouncer not 4 feet from me. He started screaming at the top of his lungs setting mom’s heart through her chest. I jumped out to check on him and he was…how do I explain this?….he had dropped his toy fish and in an attempt to get it, had crawled out of the bouncer while STILL STRAPPED IN. His legs were still attached to the bouncer but his upper body was on the floor. He was screaming because he still could not reach the fish!!! I was truly amazed.

Teeth

Have I mentioned that those two little teeth on the bottom look absolutely adorable?

Kissing

Ty learned to kiss this week! I told him to give mommy a kiss and he did it! This is my new favorite game of course! Soooo precious!

Feeding

Let’s just not talk about it! I am frustrated. No better no worse.

Glasses

Let’s just not talk about it! LOL. He got them yesterday and he HATES them. I don’t know how in the world we will keep them on. The minute we put them on, he pulls them off. They do have cable temples but it doesn’t matter. This kid could manipulate anything. We try to distract him with toys, it doesn’t work. Jim tried to force the issue for 5 minutes just to give him a chance to see with them on. He screamed the whole 5 minutes. I have no idea what we will do. The whole “just keep putting them on thing” may put us all in an insane asylum:). We’ll see. (And no, he shows no sign of being happier that he can see better either).

Neurology Apptmnt

Ty’s neurologist again called him a “miracle”. Ty kept grinning at him so much that it was infectious and the Dr. couldn’t quit grinning either. His Dr. did notice some tightening at the back of the ankle but we’ll watch it and massage and stretch them often. He wants to wait 4 mnths before he sees him again.

Flirting

Ty is learning to flirt! This week he has started grinning at all the nurses and then playfully hides his head in my shoulder. So adorable. I had to laugh because our precious pharmacist is of Asian descent and he really flirted with her. Appears both of my boys love Asian women (remember the first little girl to capture Tanner’s eye was Asian also). I think I need to adopt next from Asia as my boys are making their preference known:)!

Illness

Ty still has not gotten over his cold but it doesn’t seem to have gone to his chest. His pediatrician saw him this week (one year apptmnt) and said that I need to keep the boys in and only let family hold Ty right now because he has seen 20 cases of RSV just this week. Of course, Ty was in the bubble anyhow so no change there. I am hoping that we can leave the bubble and go back to church in March. Hopefully, Easter Sunday (which is also my birthday by the way…wouldn’t that be a great birthday gift?)

Ty wasn’t satting very well last night so I am getting a little concerned. He stayed between 90 and 92 for half the night. Towards morning, his sats began to rise a bit but not drastically. He did the same thing last night. Debating whether or not I should call the Dr. He doesn’t seem to be laboring to breathe at all so I am not super concerned at this point. The whole thing with Ryan and Landen though is making me paranoid.