I took a bunch of pictures of him on Easter Sunday. They turned out really cute and you can see how chubby he really is in them. I weighed him yesterday and he is 34 pounds and 34 inches long. Lord he is so heavy.

He has started really walking well behind his little push toy. He will go all over the yard. He could walk by himself if he would just try. Little stink.

He is eating solids really well now. Grant it, he won’t touch a vegetable but at least he is eating meat now. He has also really picked up on using the sippy cup. I finally found one that he likes. Oh, and he can drink out of a straw. He loves apple juice boxes.

In the past few days he has decided that he loves to dance and wave and clap. All things that I thought he would never do.  It just seemed to be taking forever.

He isn’t speaking clearly but I think he says “go”, “hi”, “dawn”, “dog”, “mom”, “dad”.  He loves to mimic me making high and low ahhhh noises.

He loves to wear things.  If he sees his shoes in his room, he puts his foot up and wants them to be put on.  He crawls over to where my mom and dad keep their shoes and tries to put them on.  He loves to wear hats.  He got a new bib the other night and made me put it on him so he could crawl all around the house and show everyone.

He’s getting to be so fun now.  I can’t wait to see what he’ll do in the next month.

• … loves electrical cords. He can spot one from across the room and you will have to try your best to keep him out away from it.
• … has a major temper. He already can throw a tantrum like no other. He arches his back and kicks his feet. I thought it was way too early for this.
• … will give kisses and giant hugs when asked. He pats your back while he is hugging you. I have waited for this day for a long time.
• … has a one track mind. If he decides to do something, there isn’t much that will really keep him from it. This is where the tantrums really come in. He is obsessed with one certain drawer in my mom’s kitchen right now. He goes straight to it. He also cannot keep his little hands off of my keyboard or mouse.
• … loves balloons. He wasn’t too sure of them at first but now he is obsessed with the ones from his birthday party. He carries them all over the house. He crawls on them. He pops them. He’s like a one man parade with them. It’s so funny.
• …. can problem solve really well. He can open doors and take the tops off and put them back onto things.
• …. likes to use your finger to do things. He will take your hand and make you touch the cracker on his tray or push the buttons on a toy.
• … has numerous nicknames – Stinkyface, Shooshie, Shooby Doo, Monkey Doodle, Gagie, Turdbutt.
• … has no interest in walking it seems. He would rather crawl really fast.
• … loves to be chased. If he thinks you are coming after him, he takes off at lightning speed in the opposite direction.
• … loves Ritz crackers and yogurt.
• … is so hard to bathe now. He wants to crawl all around the tub and stand up. I busted out a tooth in the tub when I was about this age so it freaks me out for him to be too active in there.
• … is getting alot more hair all of a sudden. It’s really frizzy but it is getting better now that his curls are getting longer. I’m hoping for big ringlets.
• … will sit in a laundry basket and play for a long time. He loves it in there.
• … has a love/hate relationship with his toy pig.  It’s a Fisher Price toy that is a piggy bank that you put big coins into a slot on the top of it.  Then you open a door on the side to get the coins back out.  Gage cannot figure out how to open the side door and it frustrates him like nothing else.  He will get mad and throw the pig across the floor.  It’s such a grown up reaction that it’s funny.
• … is very hot natured.  At night I have to remove his PJ pants because he is sweating so much.  My husband and I are both like that as well so it doesn’t surprise me at all.

I have got to get back into the groove of blogging so I am borrowing a format from a fellow blogger (Hey Shannon!).

Weight: Around 32.5 pounds.  I think he is about 32 inches long now as well.  He is such a big healthy guy.  I don’t even notice how giant he is until I see another baby and they are much older than Gage and he is their size.  He wears 18-24 month clothes.  He has a long torso and short legs.  He is wearing a size 6 diaper.  They don’t make a size 7 and we are nowhere near potty training.

Feedings:  We are transitioning to cow’s milk now.  I make a pitcher of half formula/half cow’s milk.  He is tolerating it well.  He loves to drink out of his sippy cup even though he doesn’t know to tip his head back to drink out of it.  He doesn’t love water unless you are giving it to him directly out of your water bottle.   He is doing so so with eating table food.  He loves to eat whatever you are eating but he doesn’t really want his own bowl of it.  He is still a yogurt fiend.

Favorites: Jack’s Big Music Show, giving hugs and kisses, crawling on top of and over Daddy, banging things together, his walker, being outside, pillows, taking a bath

Least Favorites: Leaning back to wash his head in the tub, changing his diaper, being rocked to go night-night, being told no, having his face wiped

Issues: We need to work on getting him out of the habit of taking that 4am bottle.  He doesn’t need it.  It is purely habit at this point.  We also need to work on his biting issue.  He has got a major little temper.

Personality:  He is such a sweet happy boy most of the time.  The other part of the time though he is very ornery.  He has learned the art of the temper tantrum.  He is very curious and will make a b line for electrical outlets and power cords.  I cannot get anything childproofed enough to keep this child out.  He will find a way if he really wants to get something.  I spend a great deal of my day redirecting him.

New Things: clapping, blowing spit bubbles, dancing, imitating noises that we make, hugging and kissing when prompted, shaking his head no, walking while holding on to his toys

Randomness: His hair is coming in now alot.  It seems like it grows overnight.  It is really curly and unruly.  I have to use conditioner or it is terrible the next day.