Life in the Fast Lane

I now realize there is no way I can keep up with Grady's monthly blogs - partly because I am exhausted, overwhelmed, overworked, etc. And partly because he is excellarating and learning new things every day that its impossible to keep up. Hence, life in the fast lane!

Grady's 13 months now, running, climbing, hitting his head on stuff, bruises on his legs, and all things boy. He's cutting 3 molars as I write this, my poor little guy. But he handles it like a champ. His hair is out of control so Dave and I decided even though we're not ready for his first real hair cut, we needed to do some damage control with the mullet situation. Unfortunately neither of us know what were doing and now the bottom back of his hair is uneven and a little sorry looking. Oh well, its growing so fast it won't take long to get long again and we'll have to take him to the professionals.

And we have quite the talker on our hands lately. His vocabulary is expanding every day with words like "baby", "thank you", "uh oh", "tree", "bye bye" and "beep beep". When we say our ABCs, I say "a" then he immediately says "b" and I say "c" and he says "d". Precious! He also counts to 3 now. Well, technically he only says 2 but he says it right after we say 1 - such a smartie pants. He points to everything, investigates everything, he's just such a little man now its incredible what he's learned in just 13 months. And this is why my level of exhaustion has reached an all time high. I thought I was tired during the newborn stage, but I was wrong. Still wouldn't change it for the world!

Just the other day Grady and I were playing in the family room - sometime after dinner and dusk because I had the lights on in the room versus leaving the curtains open for natural light. All of the sudden Grady started crawling and laughing hysterically. I just figured he remembered he could crawl and had a field day with it. Moments later he was walking around with his arms out straight like Frankenstein and again, laughing hysterically. It took me a couple of minutes to realize he had just discovered his shadow and was chasing it. Seriously - this may have been the cutest thing I have ever seen him do. He realized if he moved his arms the shadow moved. Then he jumped onto the floor like a frog to chase it. Melt my heart!!!

His favorite game is "I'm going to get you", but now he knows that means run the other way as before he would run straight towards me defeating the purpose of the game. We'll be playing with a toy and all of the sudden he will turn and look at me in a way that tells me its go time mom, you need to chase me around the house. So I do, and everytime he tries to cut it close by running past me I quickly grab him and tickle him til he's in a full blown laugh. It may be my favorite time of the day.

 

I think its safe to say Grady is good at life. The only trouble he gives us is with eating. He's a fantastic eater - as long as he likes what you're feeding him. While he's completely capable of eating all normal foods, he still prefers pureed when it comes to chicken, turkey, etc. However, he's my little carb-aholic. He'll chow down on any kind of cracker, chip, cookie, toast, basically if it cruches he can't get enough. I'm not giving up, I'm just surprised at his lack of enthusiasm with mac and cheese, chicken bites, etc.