13 months

James turned 13 months old a couple days ago already! He is growing up so fast. He amazes me everyday. His new facial expressions, motor skills, behavior and language developments. It's fun to see him change each week.

What he's been up to this past month:

*pointing with pointer finger rather than his hand

*signing consistantly: more, milk, all done, please, cracker. Still working on bathroom (using it as a means to tell me he has to go) and also working on 'thank-you'

*puts his hands in the air saying, "what?" or "I don't know"

*makes the funniest scowling face if he doesn't like something or doesn't understand it.

*apparently learned to crawl onto a chair and then onto a table..I got called over the speaker yesterday at the YMCA because he had fallen off the table he had crawled on in the childwatch area.

*taking a morning and afternoon nap, each an hour long.

*sleeping from 8pm-7 or 7:30. the time change messed him up for awhile. He was waking up at 6! But he's gotten back on schedule.

*Understanding 90% of what I say

*Loves to take a shower with daddy

*Eating a lot more table food and supplementing with baby food. He's such a good eater. It's so funny because if somone is eating he runs over to them and signs 'please'. He'll go around the table and make sure he gets some of each person's plate. I heard that what mommy eats baby will really like. Well, it's true. I ate lots of dessert :) James LOVES cake and ice cream.

*He loves to read too. He will bring book after book to you and say, "please". And you have to read it at least 3 times before he is done.

*wearing size 18-24 months clothes

*Definately testing mommy and daddy when they say no. And at the end of the night when he's tired he will go from one "no" thing to the next just to be onery. He does a pretty good job of listening usually, but he does like to test to see how serious/consistant we will be.

*I put some cool whip on his high chair tray yesterday to see if he would like the texture and want to play in it. NOPE. He kinda swirled it around with a spoon I gave him. And he touched it and then looked at his hands with his scowl face like, "what do I do now?" I guess someday his wife will appreciate he doesn't like to be dirty :)

I have a couple other pictures I want to post, but they are on the camera and I don't want to run upstairs yet..so here is one I took today of him on my phone. It's kinda blurry, but still so cute.