The 13 month old

Buggle,

You are the goofiest little bug. You're holding steady at just under 19 lbs, but you're getting taller so you're thinning out a bit. The 13 month picture is a little rough, we were dropping your dad off at the airport to go to Rwanda so we had to take this picture in the back of the car

saying bye to Daddy

You're a little jester these days, you love to make people laugh. You like putting things on your head and playing peek a boo (sometimes completely by yourself), both of which make you giggle quite a bit. You also have started this new trend of hitting yourself with things, which is not my favorite of your moves, but you seem to find it amusing. You've gotten very clingy lately, you won't let me leave the room very often, and getting you to stay at daycare is torture. You're happy enough being there, it's just the part where I leave that causes problems. I usually wait outside the door until you calm back down, so I can at least know that you're not spending your day losing it. You're my little side kick so you come with me to everything, I'm dreading the day when that is no longer an appropriate thing to do. 

You love fruit and drinking anything out of a cup, you insist on feeding yourself and are very good at shaking your head no. You're learning so many new things every day it's hard to keep up. You still love to dance and you're trying to mimic every new word I teach you (though you really only say ball, kitty cat, uh oh, and Dada on a recurring basis).

You're still an exceptionally sweet baby, and while you don't like getting passed around to strangers as much as you used to, you love people - even if it's just watching them from a distance. I adore you little sweet pea!

Telluride

Bug,

We took a trip to Telluride last weekend, for a 6.5 drive, you did amazingly well. Mostly you slept, but you played occasionally with your brothers and did the aforementioned new dance/song combination you've developed.

Once we got to the hotel we took the gondola down to town to eat, you seemed fairly mesmerized by the trip, after we got back from dinner it was fairly late so we all went to bed.

The hotel itself seemed to provide plenty of amusement for you, you helped yourself to our bag of treats which included a peach that you dug right into:

 

 

Popo would be sure to point out that your eating is about as dainty as your Mom's. You also had a lot of breakfast picnics on the floor with your brothers...our room was pretty well covered in cereal by the end of the trip.

The next day we tackled Imogene pass. We got out a bunch of times letting you explore the abandoned buildings and ghost town, you seemed happy with all of it:

 We eventually made it to the top, and while I got a very impressive picture to prove it:

You were completely and totally out for the count:

 You and your brothers then proceeded to sleep throuhg and extremely turbulent ride down the mountain to Ouray, I still am not sure how the logisitcs of that worked, but your little quiet bouncing heads were all we could see for the second half of our ride.

In Ouray we had dinner and went to the Gold Mine:

 

Our guide may not be at the top of his game and could have potentially been under the influence of certain beverages that you will not be having for a very long time. It made for an amusing and confusing tour. 

The next day we hung out at the pool, they had a spectacular waterslide that was far too terrifying for you, but also a nice kiddie pool that you could cruise around in:

We spent our evening exploring Telluride mountain and doing some bouldering (which you then insisted on doing on your own):

It was a short trip, so the next day we headed back home. We made a stop at a local park and Glennwood canyon to try and break the trip up a bit. You love throwing rocks into rivers, so you had a good time:

And that was your first trip to Telluride. You are still the happiest sweetest baby on the planet, and you cracked everyone up on numerous occasions with your dance routine. I'll do a new post tomorrow for your 13 month make to go over more of your milestones and such. I adore you sweet pea! Here is the link to the embarrassingly large album of pictures Telluride Album , you are nothing if not well documented :) Love you!!

Ahh eee

Baby bug,

We have a much bigger post in the works to report on our Telluride trip, but until I get the pictures I thought this was a good start to a Monday. You've developed a new dance that you like to do pretty much all the time:

You're still the world's happiest, sweetest baby, though you now HATE when I leave you at daycare so that's getting increasingly difficult to do. Unfortunately you are much too busy to take to work. I adore you sweet pea!

Fourth of July

Baby bug,

Man are you a character. You're learning so much so fast it's hard to keep up. Here's your new favorite form of communication:

That also documents my second Mommy fail moment as you managed to dump yourself out of the dump truck and flat on your face giving you a nasty bloody nose. Luckily, you're fine, and I learned my lesson.

The fourth of July was a lot of fun, we went out to Pennsylvania to see your Daddy's Aunt Barb. We stayed on her farm which came complete with your favorite kitty cat, who you looked for and talked about endlessly.

We went to a water park in Eerie and hung out around the farm. We went to the Spillway one day to see the absurd amount of fish that you can feed bread to. We tried to let you join in, but you didn't quite understand the concept:

When it came to the fireworks, you fell asleep in the 2 minute drive to the show so you've officially managed to sleep through 100% of the fireworks displays in your lifetime. Here are some of my favorite shots from our trip:

post cupcake

 

So far your vocabulary consists of hi, uh oh (the oh is sort of a static sound), kitty cat (sort of), and ball. Your babble is either German or Hebrew, it's up for debate at this point, but that seems to be the consensus.  You are getting to be a pickier eater, or more, you're getting to be pickier about eating things I attempt to feed you. As long as you're controlling it you're mostly pretty good. You love goldfish, fruit, peas and green beans. You're still not quite walking, and you only have 2 teeth, so I'm expecting some major developments in the near future in that respect, but you go ahead and take your time. As much as you hate brushing your teeth I'm fine with delaying having any more of them to tackle for as long as I can. I love you tons little bug!