13 months

Luke just keeps growing up!

Now that's over a year, we have no more cute onesies :( I was going to do something cute, but then I got busy, so here's pictures that aren't fancy or cutesy. :)

This is that weird face he's started making :)

Just chillaxin'

Here's some of what he's been up to:

• I had to take him in for a weight check, so I know that he's 19 lbs, 13 oz., and I'm writing this a week late, so I'm hoping he's up to 20 lbs by now!
• Our little Luke has had a language explosion! He talks nonstop! He babbles constantly and with all new syllables that we hadn't heard before now. It's really entertaining to sit and listen to him.
• He was calling me 'maba' instead of 'mama', but just yesterday he mastered 'mama'. Now he says it constantly, usually when he needs something or wants me to pick him up, of course.
• When he wants something, he says something that sounds like please. I'm not sure he's really saying that, but it's pretty cute. He does say more without prompting now. He'll say byebye, hi, dada, mama. He doesn't really say kitty or doggy right now, but I know he knows them!
• We bought him a big boy car seat. It's still rear facing, but it sits up higher and is more like a chair. It definitely gives him more room than the last one. Although the other car seat is sitting in the kitchen, and he climbs in it all the time and hangs out. I feel like he misses it!
• He can stand by himself for maybe 2 seconds, but it's improvement! We're hoping he'll start walking sometime in the near future, but he's definitely taking his time on that one.
• He is definitely curious and loves to  go exploring on his own in the house. When you find him doing something he knows he's not supposed to, he kind of freaks out. It's a good freak out, though, where he screams and starts laughing hysterically.
• He has discovered stairs and how much he loves to climb them. You have to watch him very carefully around them.
• He has started to drop the first nap, or really he's dropped it. His schedule is still a little erratic because some mornings he still needs a nap, but then he's up far too long until bedtime. We've had to move his bedtime up about 30 minutes until he can get more used to this one nap thing. I know he's ready to drop a nap, though, because if he takes any type of morning nap, he absolutely will not take an afternoon nap. This happened for about 2.5 weeks before I finally gave up officially on two naps. I think this will take him a while to master, but we'll get there one day!
• He's loving his milk! He gulps that stuff down which is great! At least I haven't had to worry about that :)
• He does eat somewhat better than he did before. He loves veggies with butter, toast with butter, waffles with butter, pasta with butter. Notice a pattern? I went through a whole stick of butter in about a month with this kid.  He also loves these fruit/ veggie pouches that he can suck the contents out. It is super convenient- I love them!
• He drinks about 8 oz of pediasure a day. It's there to make sure he gets enough calories and it has vitamins in it, so that's good!
• He loves to be silly and make people laugh. He's a bit of a ham. Today, he took a gift bag and put it on his head, then started crawling around running into things. He's done this before where he put a blanket over his head.
• He throws things. He throws books, pillows, balls, cars, food, blanekts, horsie, etc. I'm not looking forward to the true 'throwing' stage with this kid.
• We went to the zoo as a family at the end of April. It was kind of a belated birthday outing for Luke. It was a great day, and Trey and I were probably more excited than he was. We found that he enjoyed the reptile house the best; I think because of the lights in the cages while it was dark in the house. But we had a great day, and it was so much fun!

I think that's it, except that I LOVE him!