49 weeks + 1 day!!!

dearest chicken,

where oh where has my brain been these past few weeks? i mean, i can understand missing a week or two, but i have really been off my game! maybe it's because i am subconsciously wanting you to stay an itty bitty baby? maybe it's because we are so intent on watching you WALK everywhere? maybe it's because we are so busy planning your first birthday party?

whatever the reason(s), i just want you to know that you are celebrated every. single. day.

you have been going through some kind of growth explosion lately. you are no joke when it comes to walking. quite literally, one day you were crawling and the next you were walking. i guess this means that you are now a toddler? oh woe is me...

your vocabulary is also expanding... included among your repertoire of words are: yo gabba gabba, thank you, uh uh uh, geronimo, mama and baba. i'm sure that there are others, but those are the ones that make us laugh.

you. eat. everything. in. sight. maybe that's the reason why your shirt today is more like a tube top and the new winter coat that we had to go out and buy (you know- because you OUTGREW your original one) fits quite snuggly around your middle, but the arms are waaayyyy too long. your current favorite foods are grilled cheese sammiches (you for real shovel it in with both fist fulls- even your teacher has commented about this), chicken, any veggie, scrambled eggs, ummm, i guess you are not picky at all. if, by chance, we come across something that we think that you don't like because you spit it out, you prove us wrong the next time we introduce it to you (cantaloupe).

you are also just about off the bottle (you still drink @1/day). and the breastmilk. and the formula. you are an organic, whole-milk drinking boy!!!

among the greatest of news is that you are basically sleeping through the night in your own room in your own bed (knock on wood). we started getting serious about this over the weekend, but you have adapted really well. yayyy, chicken!!! you are getting to be such a big boy!!!

you are our greatest joy, mr. chicken.

happy 49 weeks + 1 day!!!