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Who's a handsome boy!
Hi guys!
Today is Jackson's 11 month update.
He is going to be one next month.
I cannot believe it.
Look at him.
He is like a proper boy now.
Still got his big blue eyes, lots of dark hair
and it's a little bit curly, isn't it?
And yeah, he's just definitely not a baby anymore.
He's a proper little boy now, aren't you?
He wants the camera.
Don't you?
Ahhh!
Alright, I'm going to put him down with some toys
because he gets fed up with this very quickly.
In the last month, Jackson has been teething loads.
He dribbles non stop.
He has eight teeth now and more on the way definitely.
He is forever chewing on everything
and he's wearing dribble bibs
because he just dribbles all the time.
And sometimes, I even have to change his top
halfway through the day because he has soaked
straight through.
So he's definitely teething a lot
and I'm still breastfeeding but he's never bit me.
(baby crying)
As I was saying, Jackson is a very physical boy.
He's very strong.
He is happy crawling around, standing up.
He has actually stood for a few seconds now unaided.
He's kind of let go the couch and stood
until he like crouches and goes down to the floor.
I think he's going to walk very soon
and his two older brothers both walked
between 11 months and 12 months, so he may well walk
in the next month but because he's my third
and he's my last baby,
I have really not been encouraging it.
I haven't been like come on, come on.
I've been like completely leaving him to it.
And we've just been on holiday
so he had his second ever holiday.
We went away when he was four months
to the Dominican Republic and we went away
when he was 10 months to Spain.
So, yeah he had a lovely time.
He's so adaptable.
He's very chilled out and I don't know
if it's because he's the third child
but he just took everything in his stride.
Our flight was a very early flight and we actually
had to get him out of bed at 2 a.m.
and I was really unsure how it was gonna go
but I just lifted him up at 2 a.m,
fed him and then put him back in the car seat
and he did not moan at all.
He was so chilled and when we got to the airport
he was the same.
He's having some cow's milk now.
It is about five o'clock now,
so I'm just giving him some cow's milk after dinner.
I'm still breastfeeding but I'm topping him up
with cow's milk,
because I think when he gets to over the age of one,
I would like to try and start
weaning him off of the breast
and completely onto cow's milk.
And in terms of food,
he's still a really good eater.
He really does love his food and I find him so easy
to feed because I have done baby led weaning
and purees as well like a mixture.
He's just very easy to feed.
When we went on our holiday,
I would just order my food
like say I had spaghetti and I would just give him
some of the spaghetti.
So he's just really easy to feed and I think
because he's not my first I have been very chilled out
about if he doesn't eat, he doesn't eat.
If he doesn't want to eat that day like if he's teething,
then that's fine.
Fraser, no!
Sorry about that, it's bath time and the boys
are now in the bath with Daddy so I can finish this update.
But as I was saying, his favorite foods are cheese,
soft cheese, cheesy mash.
He loves cheese.
He also love hummus.
He loves tuna which I think is quite, you know,
a different taste to like as a baby.
But he loves tuna sandwiches.
He love sandwiches in general,
like he's really quite good at eating them for his age.
He loves pasta, lasagna.
On a typical day, he'll have porridge with fruit puree
in the morning and maybe some fruit as well.
Then, I always offer him a snack at about
10 o'clock now and he sometimes has
what his brother's are having like breadsticks
and dairy lychee, stuff like that.
And then for lunch, he does normally have a sandwich
because I'll pack one for the big boys anyway.
He'll have a sandwich, maybe some veg, maybe some fruit,
maybe a few Pom-Bears,
which he shouldn't really have
but because his brother's just give them to him
it's really difficult to manage.
And then for dinner he will normally have
like a thicker kind of mashed up puree
like a lasagna for instance.
But then also finger food like some broccoli.
He loves fish cakes.
He will sit there and eat the whole fish cake
and just hold it himself.
He loves peas, sweet corn.
He's very good at self feeding so yeah,
we're doing really well on that front.
I just hope it continues.
He still absolutely adores his brothers
and the feeling is mutual.
The big boys just love him so much.
They normally wake up before him and they will listen out
for when Jackson wakes up and then as soon as he does
they both run into his room.
It must be such a wake up call
because he's like, they're all over him.
They even like, my eldest will pick him up
out of the cot and they just love him so much.
It's really, really nice to see and I just really
hope they're always close.
And maybe it's because he has brothers
that he is a very social baby.
He is always waving at people.
He loves to wave, he loves to clap, he loves to high five.
We even taught him how to pound now
so we go like that, pssshew.
So he can kind of pound now.
But he's very social because I felt quite guilty
that I haven't taken him to many play groups.
Because he is the third and we're just so busy.
But he's very social so at least that hasn't affected him.
I would say that Jackson's biggest development
in the past month, has been his speech.
He is talking so so much and he says words in context now.
He will say "Dad", "Mum", "Frase",
which is his eldest brother's name.
He's trying to say Caleb but it's quite a hard name
to say, which is his other brother's name.
He says "bird" when he sees one.
He can say "car".
He says "ball" when he's playing with the ball.
He says "Google" when I am talking to the Google Home.
Well it's more like "googa" but he's trying to say Google.
He says " hello" he says "hiya".
(laughs)
Hiya!
He's waving!
(mom Laughs)
(baby talking)
- [Dad] Hi Daddy!
- [Mom] Hello.
- [Dad] Oh Hi!
- Ma, ma, ma, ma, ma.
Frase.
- [Mom] Can you say "Frase"?
- [Dad] Fraser, you say Fraser?
- If you ask him what sound a lion makes, he will roar.
What does a lion say?
(baby roars)
That's it, he roars, doesn't he.
Roar!
(baby roaring)
If you ask him what sound a cow makes, he will moo.
So his speech is really coming on
and it's really nice to see.
In terms of clothes,
he is now in one to 18 month old clothing.
In terms of toys,
he still really likes
the light up toys that react when he presses buttons
or something like that.
So he really enjoys his V-Tech toys, Baby Einstein toys.
He also loves to play with balls.
He loves musical toys still.
He's into games more now so he loves it when I play
pee-po with him, which is also, peek-a-boo
in Canada, I think.
When you just jump out at him and there's an element
of surprise, that he loves that.
He also in the past month has enjoyed,
if I make a den with the older boys,
he really gets a kick out of like coming into the den
and looking around so that might be something
that would be good to play with your kids.
He also loves singing nursery rhymes now.
He also enjoys books.
We read lots of like the textured books or the books
that make sounds and he enjoys those as well.
But more than toys,
he enjoys playing with things
that he probably shouldn't be playing with.
So he loves getting into cupboards.
That is like the ultimate for him.
So I kind of made the Tupperware cupboard,
like all the plastic cups and things, free rein.
He can play in that cupboard and I think it's nice
to let them have a cupboard where they can
pull everything out of and then you put it all back.
He loves our spice rack still.
He is obsessed with the spice rack.
He loves climbing the stairs.
Plug sockets are a favorite,
like, things like that.
Oh, and how can I forget?
He also loves doors.
He loves opening and closing doors and playing with doors.
And getting himself stuck in rooms
so that I can barely open the door
because I don't want to hurt him.
So yeah, he loves a door.
Overall, he's just a really happy boy.
He has slotted into our family so well
and I think I've said that since day one.
He's just very chilled out and laid back.
And thank goodness he is because he is number three.
He's just a real joy to be with and to have around
and he's just so easy going.
And I'm just so proud to be his mum.
So, yeah.
I'm feeling, I'm actually feeling so emotional
that he is going to be one.
I'm probably gonna cry on his birthday.
(laughs)
I think that is it for this update.
That is Jackson at 11 months.
Ask me any questions that you have in the comments below
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And my next update will be Jackson at a year.
And I'll probably will have to make it like a montage
because I'll be too sad to make it upbeat.
Okay, bye!