Sebastien at TWELVE months

Sebastien will be having his 12 month check up when we visit Australia so I don't have any vital statistics for him. But the unofficial (stand on the scales with and without him) count is that he weighs 21 pounds.

Here is his sister at 12 months with her Council of Friends:










Here he is with his Council of Friends:










Here they are both together:










At twelve months he has twice taken a few steps on his own, but is really uninterested in walking and we haven't seen a repeat. He prefers to crawl or cruise and has developed a crawl with straight legs so his knees don't get scraped on the ground or spikey grass in China. He can stand up without holding onto anything and stand there for a minute holding things he is inspecting.

He babbles a lot and can say "Mama" and "Dada" but that's about it. Is resistant to learning "more" in sign language but does appear to sign "milk" when he wants more (this is in the high chair for banana or whatever is for food). He has eight teeth, four top and four bottom and is currently drooling a puddle so we expect more teeth soon.

A big fan of his older sister, he loves playing with her toys though "Piggie" is a favourite.














Routine is his middle name (his first is Maintenance) as he goes to bed at night at 7pm and wakes at 5am (within 5 minutes) ready to face the day. He has a morning nap of about 1.5 hours at 8.30-9am and usually an afternoon nap of an hour at 1-1.30pm. An oral child, just about everything eventually finds its way into his mouth. He loves books










and prefers his sister's paper books to his board books the majority of the time with one exception: "Baby Faces" which I see runs in the family as I've dug out this photo of his sister:














He still has next to no hair, though the little he does have is slightly longer at the back these days and developing a little curl; it's still reddish-blond. His eyes have darkened slightly but are still very much blue so it seems we'll have a blue-eyed boy for sure.

A huge "Mamma's boy", he will usually only tolerate being held by someone other than Daddy if Mummy is out of sight. Even then, he has circled the apartment crawling looking for Mummy, crying for her when she hasn't been there. So his attachment hasn't been to "Koala" or "cloth" but to "Mamma" - let's hope we don't lose her.