He seems to have grown and changed so much in the last few months. We find ourselves saying how we can't believe how much more like a toddler he looks/acts than he did even just a few weeks ago. It's probably a combo of the recent haircut, the walking and the constant babbling.
Here are a few highlights about Cole at 14-months:
- Loves to feed himself and although gets very messy, does a fairly good job.
- Babbles all the time, with a periodic shouts mixed in. Current words are "buh-bye!" (said in a bit of a southern accent?!), Dada, Ra-Ra, uh-oh, mema (more more, using the "more" sign), and trying to say "what's that" and "all done".
- Walks everywhere. Really only scoots when trying to find something to pull himself up on to initiate the walking (he hasn't yet figured out how to get up from the ground and start walking).
- Climbs up on the couch in the TV room and can climb into high chair.
- Speaking of high chair, he's now using the Stokke chair for meals.
- Always has his feet crossed at the ankles when sitting, regardless of whether it's in his car seat, in the high chair, on the ground. Takes after his daddy.
- Wiggles his whole body when excited about something - arms and legs stiffen and shoot out all over the place.
- Down to one nap a day. He goes down around 12 p.m. and sleeps for 2ish hours
- Goes to bed between 7 and 7:30, and is up around 6:30, or closer to 7 on the weekends, if we're realllly lucky (like this a.m.!)
- Can understand many simple instructions i.e. "take this to Daddy", "get your shoes", "let me have a foot" (when putting on his socks) and then "let me have the other foot!" (he'll put the socked foot down and provide you with his other food to have a sock put on). He even has helped set the table a few times. I gave him some napkins the other night and asked him to put them on the table. He did his little old man march over to the table and put them on the table. He's also helped with his and Jackson's silverware.
- Loves kitty cats and will trek right over to pet them when the neighbor's cats are in our driveway.
I braved the grocery store with both boys for a big shopping a few weeks back, and was pleasantly surprised with the outcome. Definitely not as nuts as I'd expected.
He loves the park, just like his bro
He loves riding on daddy's shoulders, but always feels the need to hold on for dear life.
Such a big kid, feeding himself oatmeal (one of his fave breakfasts)
They interact more and more and I just love it
Not sure what my fave thing about this pic is - his expression, his necklace, the Irish shirt, the hipster jeans, or his love of the slide
During a recent visit to Yakima, we were able to tour the local Pepsi production line and had a great time. We had to wear hairnets and surprisingly, neither boy seemed to mind. Cole ended up pulling his down so it covered half of his face, and still didn't mind.
In his big boy highchair, at the table
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