Here's a look back at September and Colton at 14 months.
This is one of our favorite parks at Firewheel. It's win-win for Mommy and Colton. I get to shop, Colton gets to be outside in the stroller and we usually end the day at the little playground that just happens to be across from the Nestle' Toll House store (I can neither confirm or deny if we've partaken any treats from there.)
"Helping" Papaw put together our new patio chairs. He was really interested in the inner workings of the chair :)
Colton and Daddy just hanging out on the couch. His hair reminds me of the "spiky, baby hair" days.
Life is good at 14 months!
Here are a few things I want to remember about Colton: (Then stay tuned for a picture post barrage. I used picasa and it will only let me post 4 pics at a time, but it's way faster than blogger so bear with me...)
New words: Says go when we say "Ready, Set", hello, ducky, doggie, me-me (milk), singing "e-i-e-i-o", uh-oh (constantly), no-no-no (very dramatically)...
Colton has never liked to hold our hand (even when beginning to walk). He is super independent which result in some forced hand-holding when I need him to go in the needed direction!
Has had 3 warnings at school... Colton tends to be very passionate when he's around other kids. He's the youngest in his class and wonder too if that makes him frustrated. He's been warned about biting (thankfully that has stopped), pulling hair and pushing. If said behavior continues he will be put in the "hot seat". Yikes... We're working on being gentle and personal space! It's been several weeks since we've had a "notice" so I'm not too worried now. However; I did panic when he got his first "bad report" from school and my mind flashed to all the sad faces I had ever written on a student's behavior folder - I hope I didn't cause those parents too much worry!
The other day Colton was "uh-uh-uh-uhing" as he usually does when he wants something. I followed him in to the kitchen where he proceeded to beat on the oven. The poor kid was hungry :) How funny that he knew to go to the oven to indicate food.
Ring Around the Rosy is a very funny game right now.
Loves OUTSIDE!!!! We can be outside for an hour then get inside and take our shoes off and he'll immediately go to back door/front door/garage door - whichever door we didn't just come in and want to go out again...
I don't mind too much - the weather has been great and we've found some cool parks around the area.
We've caught several viruses the past few weeks and have made a record number of trips to the pediatrician. Runny nose, runny (you know what), fevers...just general yuk. I hope we are on the mend now.
**Colton has begun taking 2+ hour naps at school!!! I had begun to give up hope that I would ever see a nap longer than an hour.
TEETH! This boy has a mouth full of teeth. Seriously the only spaces left are the 2 on the bottom next to his molar closest to the front of his mouth and the 2 on the top in the same position (eye teeth- maybe?). The molars were tough (came in around our trip to Branson) and these last 4 are showing through the gum but won't come out already. Poor baby. Please tell me we can rest a while after this.
