5 months

Getting this one in under the wire as Liam's just about to be 6 months!!

Likes:

His toes

Rolling to his tummy to do superman pose

Sleeping on his stomach, finally got him in the crib too!

Standing, still very wobbly - think Scarecrow from Wizard of Oz

Our curtains

Watching people eat - he practices moving his mouth

Mom when he's tired

His nanny

Dad to play - he gets the best giggles and laughs

 

Dislikes:

Sleeping in (hello 4am)

Too much tummy time (though he always gets himself to his tummy when you put him down)

 

4 months

Likes:

Smiling

Playing with his feet (the didis like to say he's doing "namaste")

Being loved on by Tegan

Standing

Nursing marathons

Being "thrown" up in the air

Baths

 

Dislikes:

Playing on his own for too long

Windy days

(Posted with love from our vacation in France)

 

3 months

Likes:

Making noises
Kicking
Grabbing at toys hanging
Sleeping at night cuddled with mom
His nanny
Facing out when being carried
Smiling
Touching noses with people
Having his sister talk to him
Getting his diaper changed
Playing on his back

Dislikes:
Laying on his stomach
Having dad try to make him stop crying
Being tired/hungry

16 months

Likes:
Climbing
Her doll, giraffe, cat and bunny
Making her dolls and animals sign words and pretending to feed them
Peek-a-boo
Going for walks
Pancakes
Dancing
Birds
Talking - both real words and babble
Computers
Her friend Felix, who we came up with a sign for and realized how often she thinks of him
Balls
Throwing garbage away
Pretending to do something (like share food or give you a kiss) and then turn and run away laughing


Dislikes:
Diaper changes
Staying inside too long

15 months

Likes:

Saying "uh-oh"

Crossing her feet when sitting

Sitting in laps

"S" and vowel words (shoes, socks, sleep, arm, owl, out, up)

Showing off her tummy

Animals

Food being on the table for her to pick up, not being fed to her

Baths and playing with water

Being outside

Other kids - doesn't really matter the age

Her backpack - wearing it and saying "backpack"

Jumping (her heels leave the ground but toes stay firmly planted, it's very cute)

Looking at herself in the mirror

Playing hide and seek and peek-a-boo around the furniture

Holding a finger of 2 people while she walks; today she had mine and grabbed a lady who was selling stuff at the market

Dislikes:

Getting teeth (4 new ones either cut through or are just about to including 2 molars!)

Getting her hands too dirty

Being held on walks

Clips or headbands in her hair

14 months

I'm so late with this, and picture-less!  I'm posting anyway, and will get a picture in soon!
(We're back in Nepal, over jet-lag and Tegan is about to pop 2 more teeth through!)

Likes:
Dogs
Cats (known as "meow" or more often "mao")
Sitting in laps
All animals (and their noises)
Peas
Cars
Books (especially the ones with animals!)
Giving kisses
Pointing out shoes and socks ("sh sh sh")
Going up stairs
Holding onto one of our fingers while she walks so she can go faster
Carrying stuff around (the heavier the better)

Dislikes:
Santa

1 year!!!

Likes:
Offering to share something, pulling away quickly and laughing
Dancing
Putting her arms in the air to say "so big" when you ask how big she is
Watermelon
Looking at books and flipping back and forth (and back again :)
Walking
Animals - she makes a grunting animal noise that is the same for all animals (it was originally the Chewbaca sound she learned from dad)
Looking under the couch for lost items
Peek-a-boo Wild app
Being outside
Waking up and having breakfast

Dislikes:
Things on her head
Giving up the iPhone
Not being allowed to touch the computers


Tegan understands a lot of what we tell her in English and what her nanny says in Nepali.  She knows some sign language and has made up some of her own.  She isn't saying many words, though she babbles all the time.  She is quickly moving from walking to attempting to run (really fast walking then falling into us or the furniture).  She has 6 teeth.  She nurses in the morning and night, loves to eat and can suck back a sippy cup of water.  She didn't like milk when we gave it to her and we haven't tried again.  Sleeping is still a challenge, she started waking up a few times a night again; I find her standing up in her crib ready to play at 2:00am!  She is happy and smiley most of the time and loves interacting with people.  Basically she's awesome and we love her to pieces!!

11 months

Likes:
Feeding herself with a spoon (pre-loaded by mom or dad first)
Shaking head no
Walking - up to a solid 8 steps and quickly improving
Laughing - she has gone from a baby who was always happy by rarely laughed to laughing a lot
Water, lots of water
Bread (carbs) in any form
Going outside
Putting things in and pulling things out of containers
Waking up between 4:30-5:30am
Skyping


Dislikes:
Being told no - duh
Things being taken away - duh
When mom and dad bring her in to our bed in the morning and don't go downstairs right away
Bumping her head
When people leave the room without waving
Leaving after her lunch feeding at school
Vegetables
Getting her diaper/clothes changed
Not being able to touch the computer when Skyping

10 months

Likes:

-Waving hello and goodbye

-Saying "namaste" with her hands

-Pulling up on anything and everything, the proceeding to walk around that thing

-Investigating and playing with anything she shouldn't be playing with - cords and plugs are high on the list

-The kitchen; something about that room is super cool

-Swimming

-Biting her food - 5 teeth now!

-Sharing, or pretending to share, food and toys.  If she's in the mood she'll hold out something for you and actually let go (of course expecting it back a few moments later).  Other times she holds it out and when we go to grab it she pulls it back and laughs.  Often the item is a piece of cheerio she's already sucked on... yummmm.

-Walking up stairs.  And let me tell you, watching her lift her little leg almost half her height to get up a stair is adorable.  Once she figured out the stepping thing she realized other things can be climbed and is starting to work on that too.

-Pointing to what she wants or where she wants to go

Dislikes:

-When we take something away, or move her from something she wanted to play with

-Falling off the couch and landing on her back - ouch!  Tegan thought the dr. was a nice lady to meet though and all in all everything was ok.

-Finally weaned the night time feeding and at first this was a definite dislike, what an easy way to fall back asleep that had been.  We're on track to sleep through the night, and for now she's up to 9 hours for a stretch - mom loves this!

9 months

Likes:

• Crawling!  Yay - she figured it out just hours after we left Oregon for Nepal, during our layover in Houston.  She still appears to favor standing and trying to walk over crawling.
• Taking a few falling steps towards dad or mom.  Not really walking, but so darn close
• Showing off her teeth with big smiles - two bottom teeth and a top one poked through our on the 1st.
• Playing phone by holding her toy phone, our iphones, or even a toy monkey up to her ear
• Screeching when happy and sad - yeah, fun on those 35 hours of travel from Oregon to Nepal!
• Clapping
• Eating, still loves fruit and needs to be convinced to actually eat those veggies and not just play with them.  Cheerios are also a favorite.
• Drinking from a straw
• People - she smiles at everyone and anyone all the time
• Visiting mom and dad at work at lunch time

Dislikes:

• Being too far from mom or dad when we're getting ready in the morning
• Really has started putting up a fight at nap and bed time - pushing away with arms and legs - until she gives up and collapses

8 months

Likes:

Standing and walking

Pulling herself up

Smiling

Sitting on dad's shoulders

Mom

Peek-a-boo (she's starting to bring the blanket over her head and pull it down herself to play)

Stacking cups

Flapping her arms when she gets excited

Leaving the bedroom with dad first thing in the morning

Her family (though meeting all of them all in a few days was a tad overwhelming!) 

Eye contact

Water with a sippy cup

Plums

Pointing with her index finger

Waving

Sitting in the grocery cart

Being spun around

Puffs - finger foods

Bath

Dislikes:

Changing clothes

Sleep

People leaving the room

Grass

Having her stacking cups stacked or inside each other

Chicken (and will in fact throw it up, even when it's hidden in other foods)

Loud sudden noises

Tegan has been just the happiest, smiliest baby this last week.  Her big smiles with those two little teeth popping out are just so adorable!

7 months

Likes:

Eating!  Especially sweet potatoes and bananas and feeding herself rice puffs

Talking - mama, dada, nana, and lots of squeals

Seeing sign language for "up", "milk" and "eat"

Standing

Walking while holding onto your hands, though she can inch herself while holding onto her crib rails

Moving - she never sits still and only stops moving the second before she falls asleep

Pointing and using her index finger for as many things as possible.  Picking up small items?  No problem.

Flapping her arms

Sitting and bouncing

Peeking around the corner to see people

Peek-a-boo

Dislikes:

Getting teeth - it hurts!  We are, however, excited that a tooth finally made an appearance for her 7 month birthday.  The bottom left has cut through and we can see the right one will follow shortly.

6 months

Likes:

Standing

Pulling herself up with our hands

Finding the tags on toys and sucking on them

Peekaboo

When we come home from work

Investigating anything and everything within sight

Sucking on her big toe

Rattles

Her nanny

Bath time

Smiling

When dad gargles water

Reaching for toys, often ends with a face plant

Lights (elevator buttons, light switches, internet/cable boxes, air con, etc.)

Dislikes:

Avocado

When mom leaves the room

Hanging out on her own in the mornings - carried around with mom and dad is waaay better

Being on her stomach for too long, except when sleeping

Back rubs

Taking naps

5 months

Likes:

Sitting on her own

Standing (with help)

Sitting on dad's shoulders (with lots of support)

Touching cold things

Singing and music (still Elmo, but we're branching out from just the Elmo Song)

Us being home for Spring Break

Lights on the elevator buttons

Sitting up in stroller (which requires some adjusting since our stoller doesn't sit straight up)

Watching us eat

Putting everything in her mouth (including a new one today - her toes!)

When dad kisses her neck

Mom's voice

Staring at dad

Dislikes:

Reclining in the stroller

Taking naps

When we try to help her crawl

Not a fan of other people holding her now

4 months

(Outfit picked out by dad - fabulous!)

Likes:
Sitting and standing with help from mom and dad
Grabbing and putting toys in her mouth
Rolling from back to front
Sleeping on her tummy
Making bubbles and spitting
Riding in the stroller without the carseat
Waking up and getting picked up
Music, still loves the Elmo song

Dislikes:
Napping
Diaper changes in the middle of the night (she wants to get to the eating part faster!)

3 months

Likes:
Big smiles
Music, specifically the Elmo song and Somebody That I Used to Know
Sitting up with help from mom or dad
Putting all things in her mouth
Eating from a bottle (yay!  good for daycare)
Watching TV and computer screens
Falling asleep in a crazy back-arched-head-thrown-back position

Dislikes:
Falling asleep - usually involves 5 minutes of crying first
When you try to move her head when she's asleep to keep her from getting flat spots
Wind in her face and sun in her eyes
Starting to not like her stroller (bummer)

Also this month Tegan has started consistently napping in her crib.  She wakes up a number of time at night, usually 3-5, but almost always goes right back to sleep after eating.

2 months

I'm late with this post because of our travels, but Tegan turned 2 months on December 30.  Tomorrow she goes in for her 2 month check-up.

Likes:

Daddy eating her toes

Sucking on her hand

Batting at hanging toys

Looking around, especially likes the curtains and the back of our iphones (learned while skyping)

Walks outside

Owl toys named Big Owl, Lil Owl, and Green Owl

Laying on our legs

Being worn in moby and baby bjorn

Crinkling sounds

Dislikes:

Getting too tired

Laying on tummy

When the person holding her sits down

Napping by herself (being held is so much better!)

1 month

Likes:
Bouncing
Moving arms and legs
Lifting head up
Sleeping on dad's chest
Going outside
Eating
Showers

Dislikes:
Sleeping in her crib
Pacifiers
Baths

Grandma Jo Jo has been visiting this week and we've had a lot of fun.  Tegan has gotten lots of quality time with grandma and mom has gotten a chance to take a few uninterrupted showers.

Both mom and baby have dr check-ups this weekend, we are interested to see how much she has grown!