Week 44

I can't believe Justace is almost a year old already! He's so so so different now from when he was just a few days old when we brought him home from the hospital. He crawls around all over the place, loves to be down on the floor more than he likes to be in his activity center or even in my arms sometimes. He's still not walking yet but he's crawling around great and he tries to stand on his own without holding on to things...he can only do that for a few seconds usually. He doesn't have any teeth still but wow with all crawling all over and everything he is so clumsy. He falls down and hurts himself like once every 5 minutes. I'm scared one of these times it's going to be more serious. So far he hasn't done anything beyond bruise himself. He pretty much eats little bits of whatever Mom or Dad are eating now. He can eat almost anything if given enough time to gum it to death. The only thing we won't feed him yet is honey or milk. He loves everything we give him right now. Of course his main meals still are formula bottles but I'm wondering after he turns a year old when and how to go about weaning him from formula...? I have no clue... All I know is formula or breast milk needs to be their main source of food for the first year. But what about after the first year?

I'm not sure if he's at or near the age yet where they get mean and stingy to other babies but we were at church this past Sunday in the nursery and there was another little girl in there about 18 months old. Her grandmother said she can be a pill but those two got along great. They were sharing blocks and other toys. Neither one of them was not wanting to share or play nicely together. I'm really crossing my fingers and hoping that means maybe I won't have to worry about him going through the stage of everything is his and he doesn't want to play nice with others but he's still a bit young so we will see. I really need to work on socializing him more since he has no siblings. I do know he loves sharing his food with the dogs...something I keep trying to get him to stop doing but he will hold out his hand to them and when they take the food from him he laughs so hard.

Also...he doesn't have teeth yet but I also worry about how to handle the biting phase I've heard about. I'm not sure how I will get him to stop biting if he starts that once they come in.