Beckham took his first steps a day after turning 13 months old. That morning I had told someone he has “zero interest” in walking, but later that afternoon when he was standing against something I encouraged him to try some steps. It took a few tries, and then he took two steps! I was squealing with excitement. A few weeks later, he can take about 6 steps max before falling down (throwing himself into my arms), but he gets a giant smile every time. If I tell him, “Show Grandma how you walk!” or “Walk to the kitty!” he is happy to oblige.
He FINALLY started sleeping through the night a few weeks after his first birthday, although two new teeth this week have thwarted that progress.
Some 12-13 month vocabulary: (all with baby pronunciation of course):
Flower, water (sign and verbal), shoe, bottle, more (sign), go, done (sign and verbal), down, mama, dada, cat (he CONSISTENTLY calls them "neh-neh" still, perhaps after their meows?), ball, bubble, bye, hat
As a speech therapist, it's so fun watching his speech and language skills develop. All of his speech patterns make sense to me, and they are so cute while also being developmentally appropriate for a 12-month-old. Saying "duh" for done and "dow" for down? That's called a phonological process called final consonant deletion. "Doe" for go? That's called stopping, while “zhu” for shoe is prevocalic voicing.
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| Getting into the toilet and toilet paper; putting a spinny toy on his head as a hat or “ha”; one of the neighborhood cats jumping into the basket of the stroller |
At the aquarium, Dallin held him up to the tank with glowing jellyfish and Beckham just said “wow” over and over again.
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| We have multiple neighborhood cats who have jumped in our stroller, and we love it. |
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