13 months and going strong

It's hard to believe, but my little guy is now 13 months old. He is a bucket of fun most of the time (excluding Sundays), and roams the house like he owns the place. His personality grows every day and he is honing his skills to annoy his big sister. He's already mastered hair pulling, sitting on her, pinching, and will sit down next to her and push her away with his legs. Could these all be defense mechanisms he's been developing from prior experience with her? Possibly.

Morgan loves to go outside and will stand at the sliding glass door and pound on it and cry until someone takes pity on him and takes him out. He heads straight to the rocks under the swing set and he's probably swallowed a few that I didn't know about. He really likes to follow Riley around and watch him while he mows the lawn. Strange that the vacuum still scares him, but not the lawn mower.

He likes to push things around. Strollers, chairs, toys, stools, basically anything he can get his hands on. The kid just likes to exert his physical power and show off basically. I was laughing so hard the other day when he was trying to push our big computer chair around and he actually grunted. Pure comedy. He makes me laugh a lot.

I've been teaching him where his head, eyes, ears, and mouth are. He'll point to most of them, but when I say "Morgan, where's your nose?" He always grabs my nose. I think I made that beeping and honking sound one too many times. It always makes him laugh though, and it's so cute.

I'm slowly trying to get rid of his bottle, and basically that means just trying to get him to eat more regular food and drink more milk from a cup. I think the night time bottle will be the hardest to let go of because it just comforts him to sleep. He doesn't need it to go to sleep though, so that's a plus. I was telling Riley, when Morgan can walk around drinking his bottle with one hand totally casual like, and then wave it around for good measure, it's probably time to be rid of it.

Overall, he is at a really fun age right now. He's saying a few words, communicates pretty well with what he wants (banging on the pantry door, or standing below the cookie jar and pointing is usually pretty clear that he needs a snack and he needs it now) loves to give hugs and blow kisses, and runs his chubby little legs into the ground every day. If you leave the remote where he can get it, he will literally sprint over to reach it before you get back. He thinks he's pretty sneaky.

Thanks for all of the fun little man!