Our little monkey is a whopping one year old. He is a little dude on a mission at pretty much any given time. He definitely keeps us on our toes. We had it pretty easy with the Baylee. She was about perfect less the ear infections in terms of being a baby. Tanner, not so much. And yes a lot of it is simply personality and we are so grateful to have an assortment and love them each for the self that they embrace, yet it's hard not to compare the similarities and differences. And I say a lot of it is just the boy in him.
We have learned he is the reason there is such a thing as child proofing. He has done things already Baylee has still not tried to do. He is tenderhearted with a firm "no" making him cry, yet his thick skull makes him continue to play with plugs, feed my VCR, climb on unstable things, destroy anything that appeals to his destructiveness, stick his fingers in the box fan he turns on and the list goes on and on. It was something of a sign that there is a crash helmet in his near future, while learning to walk, he would take a few steps, stop, giggle and face plant on our not so soft floor. He's a pretty crabby kid, yes acid reflux is at times to blame as the spewing still comes in spurts, with the exception being it's all solid and nasty now. He's cried more in his year than Baylee has in her 4. We tend to lean towards bipolar as a summary for him. Though, through all of his fussing, his new habit of screaming and screeching, I know that at some point during the day he's going to throw his head back, squish up his face, crinkle his nose, squint his eyes and give me the biggest cheesiest grin he can muster and once I laugh, as I always do, he's going to do it again until he's cackling with us. Sadly, I am yet to catch this one on camera. He is hilarious (when he's not making horrendous noises that make you want to scratch your eyes out). He's a showman and loves to get us laughing. He has an obsession for placing things on his noggin and the things he comes up with are quite entertaining. And my, oh my, he brings a whole new meaning to Momma's boy.
We celebrated very simply for his birthday as I still believe he's too small to remember so he doesn't need a big shindig. Grammy and Grampa came to town and were here for the festivities. I was a little sad for his cake, in the middle of getting it done, Baylee got the stomach virus and I threw it together in between her sick sessions. They both were very sick. Terrible timing on it too! (of course that's how it usually goes)
All in all, we love this small guy and are so blessed and glad he's in our family.
