- Hi guys, welcome back to my channel.
In today's video I'm going to be sharing with you
Jackson's 18 month old update.
It has been so long since I filmed a baby update like this.
The last one is when he turned one.
See I'm really excited to share
everything that he's been up to.
I have so much to tell you.
And if you have a different age baby,
and you want to watch one of my previous baby updates,
go and check them out, I will link them all down below.
I did a week by week when he was a tiny baby.
And then every month up until the age of one.
So, yeah, if you are interested to see
what he was up to then,
definitely go and check those out.
And if you are new to my channel
I would love for you to subscribe and stick around.
I post three videos a week and I would love to have you.
But yet today I will tell you all about Jackson.
Obviously he's not in the video with me
because he is running around and he is like full on,
like a little boy now.
So he was not gonna sit with me during this update,
but I will be putting loads of cutaways in of him,
just to show you what he's looking like now,
what he's doing now, what he's playing with et cetera.
I'm gonna talk to you about how he's sleeping,
what he's eating, what he enjoys doing.
So yes lets get into it.
So I'm gonna start up with how he's sleeping
because I think when you have a baby
that's quite a big important factor.
And I'm happy to say that he is still an amazing sleeper.
He does so well, he sleeps straight though still.
He goes down normally at about 6:30 p.m.
And he will sleep straight through till 6:30 a.m.
if not later.
Even if he's ill he rarely gets up and need us for anything.
He's a really really good sleeper and I feel very lucky.
And if any mums are out there thinking, 'oh you're so smug',
My first baby was really not a good sleeper,
so I have been there.
but Jackson just seems to really love his bed.
Even during the day when he has a nap.
He normally naps at about 10 o'clock or 10:30
He can't seem to make it to noon yet.
He'll normally go down at about 10:00
and sleep for two hours
and that kind of suits me at the moment
because my middle son is at preschool all morning.
So I actually get some time to get some stuff done.
So ya he's still a really good sleeper,
he's got a great bedtime routine.
He has just slipped into the routine that my older boys do.
So we normally do bath time at about 5:30 5:45
which sounds really early but,
he is so tired by then, it kinda wakes him up enough
to get him through to 6:30.
So yeah we do bath then,
and then I'm actually still breastfeeding as well.
But I do give him a big beaker of milk.
And he will normally walk around drinking that
from about five o'clock,
and then continue to drink it like after the bath as well.
So when it comes to me actually feeding him,
its like five minutes of comfort really.
And I do think I probably will stop breast feeding soon.
But its kinda been the easiest option for us,
and I think if we were both still enjoying it
then I would just carry on.
But I don't think he's getting like any
major nutritional value from it because he is drinking
whole cow's milk and it is definitely like a comfort for him
In terms of food he's still a good eater,
but he definitely knows what he likes now at this age.
So I wouldn't call him fussy but he
knows that he would prefer to have sweet things,
or the foods that he likes.
He loves fruit, he loves cheese, he loves dips
like he loves breadsticks and hummus or
cucumbers in light dips and
he loves Philadelphia Cream Cheese as a dip,
he's really good with sandwiches,
he's really good with meatballs like
so I can give him spaghetti and meatballs
and he would eat quite a lot of the meatballs.
And I find that's a really good way to get
like meat into him so he has like more iron and stuff.
So yeah he's really good in that,
we've done a lot more of baby-led weaning with him.
Which has been fantastic because this is the third baby
I really like that I can kind of give him
what the boys are having anyway
and he can kind of like nibble on bits of that.
But the only thing with baby-led weaning is now
I'm trying to introduce like spoons and forks.
And I find that it has taken a bit longer
or being a bit more of an effort than it was
with my first two children
because he's so used to just using his hands
like shoving into his mouth.
Now that I'm like introducing a fork,
I think it might be a bit more difficult.
But he's still a really good eater.
There's a few things like, he's now like no,
like definitely he wants less veg and more fruit.
So we are having to like sometimes mix fruit
and veg together to get him to eat that.
But I think that's pretty normal and I'm not worried.
Physically he has come on leaps and bounds.
In my last update he was walking.
All of my sons have all started walking
at about 11 months old.
So he started then but he's now running around,
he is very good at like being steady on his feet.
He's a bit of a climber as well.
He loves climbing on furniture.
Another major development that has really come on
in the past six months is Jackson's speech.
He is talking so so much
and know it's because he has two older brothers
that are just talking at him all the time.
But he has so many words that he says now.
He says dada.
Can you say dada.
- Dada.
- Momma, Frase, for Caleb its the most adorable thing.
He says K-K or Cayeb, he can't quite say Caleb yet
but its quite a tricky one.
- K K
- K-k
He says thank you if you give him something.
He will say car if he sees a car drive past.
If he sees a baby he says baba.
He'll point to the TV and he'll say Trolls or Peppa
if he wants to watch something like that.
- Pepper.
But yeah it like, I just noticed he almost like repeats
everything that I say, if I'm like bath time, he says bath.
And then if I say, what have you got?
He goes, what you got?
Like so he's really talking so much.
I feel like his speech is going really really well.
So I'm really pleased at how vocal he's been.
Can you say star?
- staa.
If you've been watching my channel for a while then you will know
Jackson is always been quite content happy baby.
But in the past few months I've definitely seen another side
to him which is actually quite funny.
If we're at like a playgroup or a toddler group
and he's playing with something like a car
and another child comes up to him,
he really sticks up for himself.
If someone tries to take a toy off of him,
he has no qualms at like hitting them,
and like telling them where to go.
So I call it the Wrath of Jackson like
he's this really sweet kid and he's so chilled out and easy
but he also doesn't take any crap.
Like he really sticks up for himself.
So I guess that's quite a good quality
and it's probably just again
because he has two older brothers that are constantly
taking things off of him.
He has learnt that he needs like hang on to things
and like stick up for yourself.
So I think its a good thing but I have been a bit like
'Oh!' like I wasn't expecting that.
He's still quite clingy towards me
he lives on my hip a lot of the time.
So he's still my little shadow, as I call him.
But, yeah, I haven't put him in any childcare yet,
even though he is 18 months old.
And I think that's just because with my older boys
I had to put them into nursery
because I was returning to an office.
So now I that I work from home,
I haven't put him into any kind of a childcare.
Some days it's very difficult to get anything done.
But I am enjoying having him around and like
I know he's my last baby so I'm just trying to soak him up
as much as I can.
I think when he's like two or two and a half
I will look at preschools and stuff like that.
But for now, he's with me.
In terms of the toys he's been loving,
he loves things that aren't toys like most babies.
He loves the remotes.
He's obsessed with all the remotes, we have to hide them.
He loves climbing as I said, he loves playing with balls.
He loves building blocks or playmags.
We would build them all up high.
And then he loves to knock them down.
He actually really enjoys coloring
which is so young to enjoy it
because again when his brothers are coloring
I would like color with him and he, yeah,
he really seems to love like mark making.
I guess that's all he's really doing at the moment.
He has a little ride-along firetruck
that he really enjoys playing with.
He loves water play even if I just stick him in the bath
as like something to do, like we've been stuck indoors
a little bit with the snow,
so there's been a few times when I've just like
stuck him in the bath with loads of toys
and he really enjoys water play.
He still really loves his cars and car garage.
He also has a little hoover from the Disney Store
and he loves like walking around
pretending to vacuum with that.
And he also loves a baby buggy.
And we've never really had a baby buggy having all boys.
But whenever we went to this one little playgroup,
all he would do was put a little baby in the buggy
and then like walk around with the baggy.
So I finally just got him his own one to have at home.
So yeah he really enjoys pushing that around.
He's definitely looking so much more grown up
and like a proper little boy now.
He looks so much like his brothers,
but now he's definitely coming into his own,
and there are somethings about him that looks so different,
like he's got this big curly dark hair.
And both of my other sons had like quite fair blond hair
when they were this age and always straight.
So he's got his curls from his dad.
Matt used to have curly dark hair when he was younger.
So that is really really cute and I have had to try like
learn how to care for his curly hair.
Because I've never had a child with curly hair
and I have never had like naturally curly hair.
He also still has his big blue eyes.
They are still really really big and
I think that like is a difference from his brothers as well.
And people tell me that he's quite like slim,
which is like a really weird thing to say about a baby
but people will be like, he is quite like slight, isn't he?
Like he's not like a really big chubby baby.
But I think he's just, he is breastfed
and he's running around like all the time.
So yes he's quite slim build
but is quite a weird thing to say about a baby.
Still loves his brothers,
like absolutely adores them so much and they just adore him.
It's the nicest thing to see, like siblings just like
caring for each other and yeah they just love each other.
Its amazing.
He's very well traveled,
we've been on lots of trips since my last update.
We took him to Punta Cana in October,
which was a nine hour flight,
again it was the second time we've done that
and he was great on the plane.
I was a bit worried because he's a little bit older,
but he's so good and he is just a very like chilled guy.
If he is full up and like had me he's pretty happy.
And if you follow my vlogs you may have seen
that on Christmas Day, he smashed his eye
when we were opening all the Christmas presents.
He was just sort of walking around,
he was even very excited, you could see.
He tripped over like a present or wrapping paper.
There was stuff everywhere and he head-butted the fire place
and straight away there was like
this big gash on his eyebrow bone.
And I picked him up and as soon as looked at it I was like
that needs stitches or help or something.
So, it was 5:45 on Christmas morning and I ended up
driving to A&E, luckily, because he's a baby
and because it was Christmas morning it was very quiet
and he was seen immediately.
They glued his cut and put like some Steri Strips on it.
And I cannot believe how well it has healed
in just two months.
It is completely closed.
It's just got quite a small mark on it now,
and it's right in his eyebrow.
So I'm kind of hoping that his eyebrow will grow
like big and bushy so you won't see the scar when he's older
or that it continues to fade because he's so young.
I've just been putting like a little bit of bio oil on it
every night time and yeah it's healing so well.
Its amazing how well it's looking.
I was devastated when it happened,
I will link the video down below when it happened
because I filmed the whole day.
And yeah you will see how well I took it.
Yeah in terms of me,
I know it sounds pretty silly to talk about me,
18 months postpartum,
but I am finally back to my pre-baby weight.
It took so much longer this third time around.
With Fraser and Caleb I was back to my pre-baby weight
before they turned one.
But with Jackson it took definitely a little bit longer.
But yeah I'm back now and feel amazing
and I feel like I got lots of energy to run around
after all three boys now so yeah, I really really pleased.
And yeah I think that is it.
The last thing, I've just got a note that says
he loves to dance.
He is obsessed with music, he loves our Google Home,
and every night after the bath he will go Google Google,
and we'll put on music and he'll run around
and dance around with his brothers.
So he definitely is into like music as well.
So, who knows he might be a musician one day.
But yeah anyway I hope you like this update,
let me know if you have any other questions,
like just put them in the comments below and I will reply.
And yeah I've really missed doing this little
like update videos,
so maybe I will just do like a monthly chitchat
about everyone in the family,
like just general like monthly catch-up
cos I think it's quite nice to like, I don't know.
Just talk about what's been going on and stuff.
But yeah he's still an amazing little boy, he's just like
I'm so proud to be his mummy and I just love him so much.
So yeah, anyway thanks so much for watching
and I'll see you in the next one.
Bye guys.