Milestones

Seems like life is on fast forward now. Drew hit his 1 year mark and now there are all sorts of tasks to tackle - like walking, feeding yourself, & talking! We're working on all of them. Some are going better than others. He had his 12 month checkup and has really grown. His stats are:
Head 18 3/4 inches = 75%
Height 30 inches = 50%
Weight 23 lbs 6 oz = 50%

Our little man will walk all over the place as long as you give him your fingers to hold on to. He really doesn't need them, but he doesn't know that yet. We were at a friend's 2nd birthday party over the weekend and his best buddy Clay was there. All of the other kids were walking around and Drew really wanted to be too. He took a couple of tries at it. Then, he was over in a corner by Clay and just grabbed onto Clay's shoulders and the two of them walked piggy-back for about 5 steps. It was the funniest thing in the world! I wish I had captured it on video...but we weren't that speedy. Hopefully one of these days he'll learn he can walk all on his own!

Now climbing...that's another story!! This kid can climb anything! We have to watch out for what we leave out and around because he'll be climbing up on it before we know it. The other day he was on the ground and crawled over to his stroller, climbed up into the seat and under the tray and would have climbed up over the top of the stroller if we didn't stop him. Today, he figured out how to twist around in the Wal-Mart shopping cart and climb out of the seat belt! Ufda!

Talking is another thing Drew is taking at his own pace. He definitely has a vocab of his own, and I'm starting to clue in to it. Every morning when I get him out of the crib, he says "Da" (looking for Dad) and then "Daw" (looking for the dog). He has occasionally said Ma...but those moments are few and far between. He started to say something that resembles "Hi Dog". His daddy and Grandma & Grandpa B worked on that with him. It's cute to hear him start to communicate with the world around him.

Eating is one thing he has down quite well (I think he must have gotten that from me)! We're working on teaching him to feed himself. He did pretty good at his first try. (I did catch this one on film).