Alex is 13 months old now. He is turning into quite the independent toddler. He has 6 teeth (2 on bottom, 4 on top) and is a PICKY eater already. One day he loves something and the next he won't touch it. Then try again in a day or two and he devours it again. Some of his favorites include meat sticks (basically baby hotdogs), turkey lunch meat, bananas, scrambled eggs (which he used to spit out and now loves), graham crackers, veggie puffs, gold fish crackers and of course cheerios. Note there are no real veggies in that list. He still LOVES baby food green beans and yellow veggies but does not like chunks of the real thing. We just keep trying and one day we will succeed!
He pretty much runs everywhere. I think he only walked for about a week and it has been full speed ahead ever since. His balance is getting better and even when he is running he isn't falling down as much. He likes to "help" me put away groceries by pulling all of the bags back out after I fold them to put them away. Paper bags and boxes are more fun than expensive toys!
Travis hasn't become too cool yet to hang with his little brother. Alex lights up when Travis walks in a room. They have so much fun playing together.
Alex has 2 four wheelers and can now climb on and off of them without falling over. He can roll backwards pretty easily but is still trying to figure out how to roll forward without running over his feet. We are teaching him to put his feet up when we push him on them.
He is quite the multi-tasker too...riding four wheelers and playing at the zoo should go hand in hand, right?!
We have been teaching Alex some baby sign language and have been working on a couple of things for months..."milk", "all done" and "eat". He has signed all three but not really in the right context and never in a way like he was trying to communicate his needs to us until tonight. He walked over to the fridge and signed "milk", so I got his bottle of milk out and he got really excited and drank the whole thing. It was so exciting that he was actually trying to tell me what he wanted! He had been signing "milk" over the weekend when he was drinking his bottle but this time he was asking for it without seeing it first...so cool!!!! I am going to have to look at our book again and see what other sign language we want to teach him.
He pretty much runs everywhere. I think he only walked for about a week and it has been full speed ahead ever since. His balance is getting better and even when he is running he isn't falling down as much. He likes to "help" me put away groceries by pulling all of the bags back out after I fold them to put them away. Paper bags and boxes are more fun than expensive toys! 
Travis hasn't become too cool yet to hang with his little brother. Alex lights up when Travis walks in a room. They have so much fun playing together. 
Alex has 2 four wheelers and can now climb on and off of them without falling over. He can roll backwards pretty easily but is still trying to figure out how to roll forward without running over his feet. We are teaching him to put his feet up when we push him on them. 
He is quite the multi-tasker too...riding four wheelers and playing at the zoo should go hand in hand, right?! 
We have been teaching Alex some baby sign language and have been working on a couple of things for months..."milk", "all done" and "eat". He has signed all three but not really in the right context and never in a way like he was trying to communicate his needs to us until tonight. He walked over to the fridge and signed "milk", so I got his bottle of milk out and he got really excited and drank the whole thing. It was so exciting that he was actually trying to tell me what he wanted! He had been signing "milk" over the weekend when he was drinking his bottle but this time he was asking for it without seeing it first...so cool!!!! I am going to have to look at our book again and see what other sign language we want to teach him.
