And Then There Were 3!: Update: Month Twelve (and six days)

I don't even know where to start. I may have said it already, but I'll say it again, I can not believe that Cole is one!! I have a toddler!! I don't want a toddler, I want a baby...but that is what happens, they grow up (too fast) right before your eyes! You think I'd know that since this is the second time around, but it's still so hard to wrap my head around! If I do have to have a toddler, I'll take this one for sure! Cole is the happiest baby I have ever met! Aside from the scream he has recently started doing, he hardly ever fusses and is so easily distracted that if he does start to fuss you can usually stop him before he ever really starts. He had a rough first half of the month (I thought he was finally teething) and had it not been for the 103 degree fever I would not have know that he was really sick...turns out he had a double (horrible) ear infection. So he spent 10 days on amoxicillin (which made Kate REALLY mad because she wanted the "special pink medicine" as we have called it when she has needed it in the past) and is as good as new! I think had it not been for that he would have been walking even sooner. Back on the 12th he started taking 3-4 consecutive steps and by the 22nd he was walking across the kitchen...that's when we finally called it! Today he was walking with his arms by his sides, no longer above his head or out in front of him for balance!

Cole loves to talk on the phone and can often be found babbling into it. It's especially funny when he walks and talks! He also loves to dance and his signature move is the funniest little head bob. He moos and barks for the cow and dog, says Dada, has said Mama only once, and has just started pointing to eyes and nose. And last week he melted out hearts just as Kate had when he started signing "I love you"!