{johnny-13 months}

The day after Christmas, Johnny turned 13 months! Thanks to an ER visit (no worries, all good) on Christmas Eve Morning, we know he's 26 lbs. 8 oz. Yes, my arms are finally starting to hurt! Everyone who held him for the first time while we were visiting Florida had the same initial reaction: "Whoa!" We love our big boy so much! Lola never really had any fat on her so we are really enjoying how squishy he is, haha!

He's had quite a developmental explosion as of late. We've always know that cognitively, he is very much there--his therapists have all commented on that and he's always shown us we've got nothing to worry about in that department. But he's really starting to pick things up at a faster pace than ever before and it's very exciting.

We're increasing PT to 2x a week starting tomorrow and we're really excited about that. He's doing great in his braces and I think it's a very realistic possibility he'll be walking by his next birthday. He does things on his time but HE DOES THEM.

He is starting to babble a little more. He makes the hard G sound alot, but that's about it. We're going to have another Speech evaluation done next month and may perhaps start that therapy as well. Our physiatrist commented on something during our initial visit with her 2 months ago--research is finding that not properly evaluating kiddos born at what is considered late pre-term (like Johnny was at 35 weeks) is really doing them a great disservice. They may just be slightly behind, because of those lost few weeks in the womb, but those last few weeks are SO important, so why wouldn't we be sure to give them the extra help they need?!

His fine motor skills are really great! Lucy got him a cookie shape jar for Christmas and without even being shown, he tried to put one of the blocks in the correct shape, so needless to say, we've been working on that for the last few days.

Stay tuned for 14 months...