15-16 Months

The Christmas lights continue and so does the squealing.  You are gearing up for Christmas this year for sure, but I will save those pictures for another post.

You use Murphy as a couch.  You also like to give him treats, take them back, then run around and chase him trying to return the treat to him. And by return I mean shove them in his mouth.

You can say Touch Down and put your hands up.

You love Mickey Mouse.  

You are starting to throw your dirty diapers away all by yourself.  What  I didn’t realize at first is you also throw away your socks.  I don’t know why, but you don’t like your feet covered.

Post sock garbage stash and look at the innocent eyes.  Hide socks? Who me?  

You say I am pretty, pretty.  You brush my hair and use make up brushes to make me pretty pretty. 

Yummy in your tummy is the latest party trick.  You rub your tummy (mostly chest) in a circle and say mmmmm.

You say da-da all day long.  ALL day.  Can we get a momma?!

Da-da is the holder of all the remotes.  Momma is not allowed to have them.  If I have one,  you grab them, look at me, and run to da-da with them saying his name the whole way.

You caught a nasty double ear infection and cold.  Here is the latest Dr. Office shot. 

You discovered the car cart at Kroger.

After just one lesson from dad you mastered the mixer.

You also mastered the straw...

Dirty looks...

and the steps....

December 2014-January 2015

14-15 Months

A quick list of highlights....
You like long walks on the beach......or around our neighborhood pond.  :) 

You still haven’t mastered the closed mouth kiss. Slobbery and sweet...I will take it. 

You love jumping on the couch even more so when we say no. You think that is funny and eat up the attention.  

You understand more than I ever thought you would and I wish you could talk because I wonder what is going on in that head of yours. 

You despise footie pajamas.  It is hilarious to watch you try to take them off.  You look at me with disgust when I put them on, but typically get over it in a few minutes. Until you look down again and the nasty looks continue until something else catches your attention.

Happy as can be with my feet free...

You love to dance with me. It is one of my favorite things you do.

We took a weekend trip to Gatlinburg, TN with Greg, Lisa, and the kids. Here are some photo shots of our fun filled weekend of mountians, tourists, and bears.  

Our View from the porch

Dale's Pale ale anyone? 

On Board the tram to Ober...climbing the mountianside

We made the best of it when we got to the top and nothing was open. Who's up for some 

Putt Putt Rock?

Ski Ball and Roller Coasters.  No you didn't ride, but you had fun watching us risk our bodies on a big erector set put together on the side of some mountain.

Cousin Love

Cheese....

Your face:  Bears?! What about bears...

Taking a load off and taking in the view.

We also took a trip for my birthday to the Newport Aquarium.

You LOVE Christmas lights!  You point and squeak.  I don’t know what we are going to look at on our hour drives home when they come down.

We took you around town to see a few light shows.  My favorite is the Cincinnati Zoo Festival of Lights.  It only took us 3 hours with traffic to get there.  You were so pooped by the time we got there I was afraid you wouldn't make it long.  The lights EVERYWHERE you turned brought some energy back to you though.  

Merry almost Christmas you little Rascal :) 

November 2014-December 2015

Halloween 2014

You went to a pumpkin patch with Grandma Shelley.  Check out this photo session.  Cutest kid ever.

You will notice there are no pictures of you in your adorable Winnie the Pooh outfit.  Unfortunately Halloweens have not been good for you.  Your first Halloween consisted of a ridiculous downpour and straight line winds so we didn't make it out.  And this year we both had fevers and had to stay home while dad handed out candy all alone.  Here is our pitiful picture eating Popsicles trying to cool off. Maybe next year will be the one for you. 

Too bad we missed it....you would have made a cute Pooh Bear.

Happy not so happy Halloween bugs.