Things I Want to Remember...

Here are the words Clayton says (and actually associates them correctly) as he approaches his 14 month birthday (tomorrow).

ball

book

dog

bread

cheese

hi

gone

Daddy

Momma

more

shoes (oosh)

butt (referring to his diaper)

"dadoo" (his mystery word)

that (dat)

this (dis)

fish

Kix

uh-oh

juice

Daq

cat

car

for horses/giraffes he makes a clip-clop noise

for cows he moos (boooo)

for monkeys he goes "ooo-ooo, ah-ah"
for lions he ROOOAAARS!

Here's a list of cool things Clay does now:

He's walking like a champ.

He's a pro with a sippy cup.

He likes to put things in their spot - like putting his cup back into its holder in the stroller/high chair. He also is into putting his rings back on the stand and playing with his Tupperware Shape-O toy.

He understands us more than we think. On Saturday, Jer asked Clay to bring him his pants so he could get him dressed after a diaper change. Clay went right to his pants and toddled them back to Jer and let him dress him.

He's great at throwing/rolling a ball back and forth.

He dances and bops whenever he hears any music.

He can now slide down off our bed/couches by himself.

He knows to go down the stairs backwards.

I don't cut up his sandwiches anymore - he just takes bites (albeit HUGE bites!).

He stands up without pulling himself up on something.

He waves goodbye.

He's basically a genius, I know.

Also, here are some pics from 9/10/08 of Clay and Cristin at the park.

Friday night (10-24) we took Clayton to the American West Heritage Center corn maze. Jer carried him a lot of the time, but he loved to be down and walking through the pathways himself. It took us 54 minutes to get through it - good thing we took a flashlight! A lot of people were using their cell phones as makeshift flashlights. After the maze we stopped by the Opera House where there were fun Halloween stories being read by a witch! Clay loves a good story and was content to sit and listen to two of them. When the stories were done we hopped on the horse-drawn wagon and headed back to the parking lot. They had other stuff there that Clayton was too young for. Such as: a blackout maze - you had to feel your way through it; and a kids mini-maze that they had to crawl through. Fun place!

Tomorrow comes the announcement of Baby #2's gender! Hurrah!!