Life, Randomness, and What Have You

Here we are, one month until you hit a year, and what a year it has been! When the milestone is reached, I assume I'll go back to writing more random stuff and throwing in the occasional cutesy luvbug moments in place of the monthly updates. This month has seen the most dramatic changes to date and it's exciting to see the transformation of this small child that is slowly turning into a little man.

He has a total of two teeth now (both bottom ones) and his top front two are about to poke through any day now. We have almost fully switched over to table food and ditched the old favorite rice cereal. This is a blessing and a curse. The blessing being that he can now just eat whatever we are eating. The curse is that you have to be a little more creative in what you're giving him -- I can't just give him hot dogs every meal (like I did with the good 'ol rice cereal), but on second thought, that might not be a bad idea! I mean, the way he scarfs these things down you'd think that we were holding out on him this whole time. Look Ian, you had to have rice cereal because you didn't have any teeth and now that you have teeth...ok, ok, you get what I'm putting down?

Let's see...what else is new? Oh yeah, he can now say a couple choice words, 'uh-oh' being his first and most favorite thing to say, to 'hi' or 'hiyaaa', and 'baahhh' (which he says when he is pointing to the nearest ball). He also says some unintelligible words like 'maaaaammmmmm' 'daaaa' 'daa', or 'datoo'...'datoo', which we think might be mama and dada, but that's debatable at the moment.

In addition to his new language skills, he is also starting to pick himself up and stand in place where ever the nearest furniture piece may be. The latter is what has struck me the most and it's really starting to hit me that my little guy is not so little any more. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's definitely a turning point where one chapter is about to close and another is going to begin.