Meet the Mocks: 14 months

This month has been a memorable one for us at the Mock household. I feel like our baby is turning into a true "tot". I previously blogged about his first steps earlier this month. He continues to "practice" a few times a day, but only a few steps at a time. He is so fast crawling around and he knows he can get places more quickly that way. He has mastered climbing the stairs (don't worry, we have gates) and pretty much knows to turn himself around to get down, but still gets a little scared. His new favorite trick, as I like to call them, is pointing. He started a week or so ago using his arms to point in the general direction of things that he wants. That has now developed into his index finger pointing at what he wants and along with that comes grunting and moaning. He is still obsessed with his Cozy Coupe car, probably his favorite toy at the moment.

He also is really into his water table and anything water for that matter

The usual updates include:
*Sleeping about 11.5 hours at night. We try and get him in bed by 8pm, but it will sometimes be 9:30 before he actually falls asleep. He just gets restless (never cries) and rolls around in his crib. He gets up about 8am
*Napping - twice a day about 1.5 hours in the morning and in the afternoon
*Has improved with the sippy cup, but only for juice and water. The only type of sippy cup that has seemed to work thus far doesn't allow milk to flow through too easily.
*Takes a morning and evening bottle (about 7-8oz each) and sometimes a snack bottle in the afternoon. Now that we have mastered a sippy cup during the day, we're going to work on using them for milk next
*Has 12 teeth (all 4 of his 12 month molars)
*Absolutely refuses to eat most meals in his high chair (suggestions anyone?!) We have tried everything short of letting him starve and go to bed hungry. He seems to have no time to eat and would rather play and take bites when he feels like it. This makes each meal anywhere from 30 min to 1.5 hours!
*He thinks any sort of electronic should be used as a phone. The IPhone, house phone, remote control, his video monitor. You name it, when he gets a hold of it, he puts it up to his ear. Here he is showing off his top teeth!

The infamous surprised face

Working his Harry Potter magic to try and get the phone to ring

*We think he weighs anywhere from 24 to 25 lbs. right now; but he definitely growing taller by the day. His 18 month clothes hardly fit and he can now successfully get his entire hand around the door knob without too much effort
*Absolutely loves music. He full on dances now to just about any song, beat, clapping, snapping, etc. He adds a little bit to his dance moves every so often. Now accompanying the rocking bank and forth is the one hand in the air, raising the roof kind of routine

*He can actually follow certain commands. If we tell him to go get his juice, or the ball, or his puppy, he will go do it

*Loves to clap, play Pat-a-Cake, and watch me do the Itsy Bitsy Spider (he has started putting his fingers together and tries to mimic me when I sing it to him!)

*Current words include: MaMa, Bye-Bye, Boppy (we think for his puppy)

*Become a master of temper tantrums. Full out screaming, throwing his body to the floor in the most dramatic fashion, banging his hands on the floor - you get the picture

Here are his 14 month shots. You'll notice most of the pics are all in his same PJs. Wes' mom got us a fancy camera for our birthdays this summer. So I was practicing with it the other day! So excited to learn how to really use it!

Toothy smile