12 Months!!!!

I realized yesterday when I was reading old blogs about Emry that my memories of her a bit more blury than I wish. But I do remember clearly that taking pictures was not this difficult. For while she may have tried to pull off the sticker, she did not try to slide out of the chair:

Or throw Sock Monkey:

  

Or take the sticker off every time I put it on:

I did manage to get a few goods ones – and called it a day!

My little man is a whole year old today. Like his sister, he is not yet walking on his own. But unlike his sister, he has been crawling for months. He can crawl “normally” now, but his military style is much faster and he can hold something in his hands while he crawls that way. He pulls himself up on everything: doors, walls, shelves, legs, toys, whatever! And, as of yesterday, he climbs both up and down steps. He’s been going up for ages, but the whole “feet first” coming down has been extremely elusive. And just because he can do it (and we did it several times yesterday – who needs a stair-stepper?), that doesn’t mean he doesn’t try to first come down head first. Like he does with everything. No thought. No pause. Just dive in head first. Why not?

As far as personality, he’s really a rather laid back kid. Again, like his sister. Nothing really bothers him, even Emry taking thing away. He goes with whatever’s going on. And if he doesn’t like something, he simply wanders off or throws it (as in food). He doesn’t sit still for long, but when he does he is working on his motor skills. He can put caps on pens, tries to put Duplo blocks together and was even trying to build towers with Emry and I yesterday, although knocking them down is much more fun. And while I’m glad to finally see some of these finer motor skills being improved upon, like everything you can tell he’s not giving it a lot of thought but simply doing. Engineer he’s not. Demolition crew? Well, someone has to make room for progress…