1 year, 8 months, 28 days

Dear John,

There are so many moments I want to capture that I don't have a camera for. This morning you woke up next to me when it was still dark out and stretched out so you could hold my face between both of your hands and just stared at me with half open tired eyes. It was as if you were making sure that I didn't turn away from you once you went back to sleep. It gave me the best warm fuzzies.

Instead, I captured your new favorite activity. Play-doh! We played with it for hours. Oh, and your other favorite activity is dancing to the "hotdog dance". If it comes on the radio, the whole family drops everything to silly dance with you. You also sing Hot Dog Hot Dog randomly through our the day. I love it.

Mom

1 Year, 8 Months, 3 Days

Dear John,

Your Papa loves to make you laugh.  Luckily, we caught a good video of him making you laugh by sweeping you up with a broom.

Also, you have had some big milestones the past month.  You have learned to do puzzle boards like a champ.  You have had a word explosion, but the best is that you say "Bewoo" for Bella and "Teennnyy" for Penny, which is adorable.  I think we need to rename Bella because Bewoo is so much better.  You also say "cheese" and "shoes" in this voice that slowly gets higher and higher and I am not sure where you got that from.  You have started sleeping soundly enough that it is fun to snuggle with you (before you were too much of an acrobat), which I think might be because you started sleeping with a pillow.  Lastly, you say "uuut ohhh" for just about every scenario with a sheepish look on your face.  Every time I don't think you can get any cuter, you do.

I have to run now because you are almost done with your lunch (you currently have hummus alllllll oooovvverrr you and are smiling at me like it is awesome) and we need to get you ready for a nap.   I love you a bunch sweetie.

Love, Mom