12 month update

You are such a fun little playpal at this age!  We have so much fun together and we are Best Buds.  Some things about you at 12 months:

• You can crawl everywhere now.  On grass, on the kitchen floor, with things in your hands - nothing stops you!  You can move from back to belly to crawling to sitting with ease.  We have to be very careful now opening doors or even just walking around preparing dinner and such because you are fast and quiet and we have stumbled over you many times on accident!
• You have started to pull yourself up on furniture and people.  You can pull yourself to standing in your crib and will look at the closed bedroom door and call for us in the mornings.
• You have a second bottom tooth breaking through!
• You love to crawl over to your stroller and push it back and forth, when it's in the house.
• You have become much more interested in feeding yourself.  This has made mealtimes much messier, as we've started to give you a lot more table food cut up for you to eat with your fingers.
• We've decided you're probably right-handed.  You used to use both hands equally, but recently you have favored the right hand.  Now when we "play ball" we'll roll the ball to you and even if it goes to your left side, you'll pick it up with your left hand and then transfer it to your right to throw back.
• You're interested in loading/filling containers.  You adore the dump truck Daddy got you a while back, and will try to fill the dump tray with various things.  Or if we have any other container you'll put a couple things in it then look in and take them back out.
• You are trying to mimic us more than ever, both sounds and actions.  It's funny watching the kind of things you try to copy sometimes.
• You're pretty much just a bottle boy now!  We only nurse a little bit first thing in the mornings, and even then it's just mainly a comfort/antibody nursing, you still take almost a full bottle right after.
• When you sit in your high chair or on your little scooter or grocery cart or anywhere else possible, you like to tuck your feet up in front of you rather than leave them dangling.
• You have started to sign "all done"!  You've only done it a couple times but you get so excited when you do it.  You do it by opening and closing both fists over and over.  So cute!
• You have become a lot more questioning lately, as much as you can be without saying words.  But many, many times throughout the day you will turn to us with questioning eyes and make a sound like "ehhh?" or if you have your binky in, "mmm?"  It's a little trill that raises up at the end.
• You have a VERY mischevious smile!  When you get an idea in your head, we'll see you start to charge crawl toward it and grin sneakily.  That's when we know we need to keep a close eye on what you have in mind!