Apparently, at some point, I stopped doing "official" monthly posts. It wasn't a conscious decision, just for the record. Nonetheless, here is a 15-month update.
We haven't had our 15 month well baby visit yet. I think it's scheduled the week of our move, which will have to change because that week will be way too hectic. I'm really uncertain what he's supposed to be able to do at this point in his development, but what I know is that he's walking really well - it's like it happened overnight!! One weekend, we're going back and forth from Mommy to Daddy, the next he's walking from one end of the apartment to the other, and this weekend, he can get up on his feet from the floor with no help or nothing to pull up on - he's an official toddler! It's really crazy how fast this all happened. The video below shows the progression over the last month or so. The most recent clip is from a couple of weeks ago and he's 10 times better at walking now. It's awesome!!
He's also "talking" quite a bit, just not in real words...still more babbling than anything. The video clips below are from the past month or so. He tried very hard to tell Mommy Happy Birthday. I'm also trying to find the clip where he repeated "mess" when I was trying to get him to say "I'm a mess." It came out more like "Mets" (and no, he's not yet a big baseball fan, so he wasn't confused). (Just realized the "Mets" is at the end of one of the walking clips above.) And the other clip is of him doing "Please" in sign language - this started long ago (and I posted at the time) but I haven't been able to download videos from the home computer since we moved to Firefox instead of Internet Explorer due to some issues we were having. Anyway, enjoy the clips below.
Last but not least, Hunter is trying very hard to eat with a spoon. More often than not, he picks the food up and puts it on the spoon, then takes it off and uses his fingers to feed himself after all that. He also will pick up the spoon, and then using the same hand, pick up food in his fingers with the spoon still in hand - makes it difficult to get the food in his mouth, but it's cute anyway. (This particular video was taken after Mommy went crazy with hairspray on Hunter's hair - it was pretty funny lookin.) I also included a clip of him eating a humongous peach. I regretted this afterwards because his little face broke out horribly. His skin is soooo sensitive. I haven't given him peaches ever since because I felt so bad about it. Even though it doesn't seem to bother him, it looks so irritating, and there is no telling what it is doing to his little tush when it comes out the other end. Oranges are horrible for his hiney!!
I went ahead and included the last three clips in with the eating clips. One is Hunter playing with some pots and pans, and the other is him putting his pacifiers into the silo on his barn toy (cant' get this one to load for some reason...will try later). And another clip is Hunter playing with Uncle Brad last weekend - he's in town visiting from St. Louis and got to spend the afternoon with us. Those boys had a blast!! And when Uncle Brad was back today, Hunter picked right up where they left off.
Keep in mind that all of these clips are pieces of much larger videos, but I'm sparing you the length (not to mention it would take 2 weeks to upload everything). You can thank me later. As it is, I will probably have add more as the weekend goes on because the first one is taking quite some time to put together, so if all of the videos aren't up when you check in, make sure to check back on Monday and hopefully they will all be up.
The following three pics were taken right after we left the pumpkin patch. He looks a lot happier than he was when we first had to leave. He was devastated! I think he would have stayed there for hours if we'd let him. Anyway, the pics progress from barely smiling to all out laughing. I can't even remember what I was doing to make him laugh, but it worked whatever it was!
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