February 2011 - 16 MONTHS!

Wow 16 months! Time has been flying! Especially being at Ouma and Oupa's house!
On the 7th we had to get ready to fly out to go back home, it was a sad time of goodbyes, but we are very much looking forward to Oupa maybe coming in the summer to visit and be with us at summer camp!!!! :)
Getting back home was very different, cold, grey and dark. Mikki misses his ouma, oupa and family that side. He misses being able to just go outside into the sunshine and playing with the dogs. Here mamma dresses him with layers and layers and layers and it takes forever to get out.
This month Mikki got another two teeth! During our time in South Africa he got six teeth!!! Wow, we should go there more often :) So now Mikki has 14 teeth!
This month Mikki has been changing so much! He is growing daily and is doing so well!!
Some highlights:
*He started saying "sssssss" for the sound a snake makes :)
*Started kicking a ball
*He tries to say "woof" for the sound a dog makes, but he only gets "ffff" out. :) It is so cute!!!!
*He started saying ball, he says it with the double "ll" sound silent :) It is so cute!
*He is bouncing on his big ball all by himself! Ok, well he holds on to the couch but it is still amazing!!!!
*And the best of the month, is probably that when he is asks how old he is, he shows the number 1 with his pointy finger!! :)
He is getting so smart, so big, and so much more amazing!!! Mamma and pappa love him so much and are so proud of him!

January 2011- 15 MONTHS!!!

Yip, we are 15 months already and time is just flying by here in South Africa!

This month has been a major "tooth" month! This month Mikki kicked out three teeth!!! So now he has 12 teeth!!! WOW!!!

The major thing this month is probably that Mikki has started weaning himself! At night he is still waking up tons and drinking, but during the day he is totally off of nursing! :( For him that is great and mamma is so proud of him for weaning off by himself (that has also made it a lot easier physically for mamma) but mamma misses those special times!

With not nursing during the day, Mikki is eating a lot more solids and gone are the mushy-mushy foods, he only wants real food now :) Hooray!!!

Mikki is babbling A LOT more now, we think that all the people and little ones around has also helped a lot :) He is also starting to try and make new words, like "kagggg" for car. :)

Mikki is walking faster and faster and he is not walking with his hands up anymore, he looks like a real big boy now! :)

The BIG thing for this month is that Mikki started swimming lessons and he is LOVING it! He is doing really well and catching up with what the others in class have already learnt. We think that he is doing even better than the others :)

We went to the zoo this month with his cousins and he loved it! All the excitement was just too much for him and he fell asleep :)

We also got to visit the Lion Park for Mikki's aunty's birthday! He LOVED it! We got to see loads of lions from the car and Mikki kept saying "gggggggg" to them :) Then we went to go and play with the lion cubs as well as feed the giraffes! We had a ball of a time!!!!