Can't catch me!

One year and one day

Here's the little man all grown up. A couple nights ago I was getting him ready for bed. We usually read a story in the rocking chair and then I sing him a song and put him in his crib. I finished reading him his story and I started singing and he reached his arms for the crib and goes "ehhh". So I put him in his bed and he laid down. I guess he is now too big for bedtime songs too, or my voice is really as bad as I have always suspected it is.

I love that he is growing up and he can kind of understand things. But I feel like now comes the hard part. For the first year, it is all about physical growth and accomplishments, for the most part. There's not a whole lot you have to do to teach him how to sit up, stand up, crawl, walk, they figure a lot of that out themselves and from watching others. Now comes the part where you teach him right and wrong and manners and how to be a good person. How do you even teach someone that stuff? Especially a toddler whose vocabulary consists of "uh-oh" and 5 or 6 ASL signs. It's a big step for him reaching 1 but I think it's not really going to get easier. It kind of freaks me out a bit. Then I think that I am in the same place I was one year ago, wondering what in the world to do with this little baby. We figured out how to get him this far so I guess we just do the same thing we've been doing for the last year; make it up as we go.

Everything is New

I really got to step up my blogging! We are T-minus 6 days until Elijah's 1st birthday. Lots of new stuff going on for the little one.

First off, he is walking like nobody's business and at times, he's almost running. It's crazy to me how fast he got the hang of it.

Secondly, he has decided that baby food is, in fact, for babies and he has no interest in it. This happened about a month ago and has been good but considerably more messy. We are very proud of his willingness to try things, sometimes taking every piece on his tray and putting it in his mouth and then taking it out again. Every piece of food on the tray gets put in his mouth, not all of it stays there. His favorites are cheese, carrotts(if they have cinnamin on them) and bananas and anything on Mom's and Dad's plate, even if it is the same thing on his plate.

He is also transitioning to the 1 year old room at "school". They have a little bit more structured class time than the baby room. He has been spending time with the "Teddy Bear" classroom and seems to be doing really well. He was there all day yesterday and boy was he tired when he got home. Playing with the big kids is hard work!

Next hurdle, daylight savings time. What a stupid idea. The person who invented this clearly did not have children.