Since my last update, Liam is crawling all over the place and pulling up on everything. He’ll play in the living room for a while, then move to the “dining room” (aka their third play room), make a loop through the kitchen, and then maybe go play is his room for a while. He doesn’t particularly care if anyone is playing with him or not. In that respect, he’s more independent than Luke was at his age (11.5 months).
Liam loves to play “chase.” He loves for Luke, or for that matter, Cassie or I, to crawl after him. He thinks it’s great fun. He and Luke are getting to be pretty big buddies. Most of the time Luke remembers that he’s still quite a bit bigger than Liam, but occasionally he gets too rough for our liking. Sometimes you’d think he’s been watching wrestling. :)
Liam’s spitting up has gotten much better. Good enough, in fact, that we’ve tried mixing whole milk into his bottles. Unfortunately, it seems to make him spit up quite a bit more. We’ve stopped for the moment, but will probably try again soon. Hopefully it was a fluke. I’m anxious to get him off his ~$50/week formula habit.
Luke’s learning new words at a pretty rapid pace. He’s still not saying a lot of phrases, but that seems to have improved in the past week or so. At least to me, it’s obvious he’s a pretty smart little kid, we just need his verbal skills to catch up to what’s going on in his head. I have no doubt that’ll happen in time.