Miller Moments

Carter has turned into such a little independent man these days. He gets himself dressed and then cleans up his room - telling everyone to stay out while he's doing it - and then is proud as punch to show us all. When Cohen storms into his room he tells him "now don't mess up my room as I just cleaned it all up!" - sound like his mother?

Cohen is definitely not a baby anymore, all he is lacking is the words to go along with that little personality, if only we knew what was going on in that little mind. He grunts and gets what he wants, however seems to be trying to say some words. I am sure he is daddy yesterday. Kind of dreading his 18 month immunization appointment though as they will ask how many words can he say and be appauled by my response of "none". Carter tells him all the time, "use your words Cohen" but it doesn't seem to help. I know that once he starts, we won't be able to get him to stop just like Carter.

Our New Year's plans were to take the kids to the science centre for the Noon Year's Celebration but both kids are sick so it should hopefully be a quiet night at home.

Easier said than done, that " just let him cry himself to sleep" motto. Cohen can definitely be a challenge to get to sleep some nights/days. He is like his mother and if he doesn't get to sleep in that 15 minute window that he is tired, he gets a second/third/fourth wind. I usually stand beside the crib while he is going to fall asleep so he knows someone is there but the other night, I couldn't wait any longer as it was 10:30 pm. He was running around his crib in circles, laughing, hanging onto the edge of the crib like a monkey. Every time I would say "night night Cohen", he would shake his head no - not funny but very cute none the less. That night I let him cry for 30 minutes. As a baby I wasn't willing to do this method, as I believe at that age crying means there must be something wrong but at this age, Cohen knows how to "turn it on and off" like a faucet, amazing how quickly they learn these tricks.

Hard to believe that at the babysitter's he has 2 naps, first one at 9 am and she has to wake him from the 2nd one in the afternoon. Whereas, I can barely get him to nap for an hour by midafternoon on the weekend. Not much sleep for a guy who gets up between 5 and 6 am. I should have known that we wouldn't be lucky enough to have 2 great sleepers - but love him just as much!

We had Cohen's follow up appointment with the specialist and he is not concerned at all with the cystic hygroma on his neck, as it is still soft and has got smaller from 6 months ago. The next follow up will be in another 6 months. In the picture below, you can notice the right side of his neck appears to have a lump on it - in addition to the drool and rashes from so much drooling.

Hard to believe that Cohen turned 17 months yesterday - he is almost 1 1/2! He is still one very busy little boy, needing not alot of sleep. Still no real words (maybe hot - when he tries to touch my tea) but he sure knows what everything is and what "he wants". He obviously cannot say sorry but when he does something wrong like hit Carter, he will go over and give him a big hug to make it better - hard to stay stern.