Really? 13 months?

We were so excited for our lil man to turn 1 but its so weird, yet exciting, that he is now on the downslide to 2!! We are slowly coming to realize that he is no longer "our lil baby." He has definitely hit the toddler stage!! He is into EVERYTHING, climbing on EVERYTHING, eating EVERYTHING as well as kissing, waving and pointing at EVERYTHING! Now that he is walking, we hope to lose the remainder of our baby weight chasing the lil guy around :)

*Michael really does love his GATORS! He enjoys playing with his blue and orange football but most importantly, he LOVES his Gator bat. He even drags it around the house and will use it as a cane or even straddle the darn thing, like a wooden pony stick thingy.

He likes to sport his Gator attire too!

Daddy even is teaching him the GATOR chomp :) Mike is such a wonderful dad!

*Our little man really gets into playing games. Whether it is peek-a-boo(with himself too), being chased around the house or grabbing Mike's hand from under the door, he finds the humor in whatever we do and has fun with it!

*Besides his GATOR bat, he also drags his "Bongo" around the house as well. You can see in the picture below the monkey to the side... Bongo :) His cousin Kaitlynn gave Michael this stuffed animal this summer when he returned home from the hospital after being treated for MRSA. He has been attached to it ever since!


*Michael eats and drinks pretty much anything! He holds his own bottles of milk... yes we are drinking Whole Milk!!! He loves it and it was an easy transition from formula. He also likes his apple juice and pear juice. As far as food goes... he eats anything really. He doesn't like green beans or peas. He usually has either hard boiled or scrambled eggs for breakfast, sometimes grits, oatmeal or toast. Lunch usually consists of flavored apple sauces or mashed potatoes with either hot dog, Vienna sausage or turkey/chicken sticks by Gerber Graduates. He snacks on baby Goldfish, cheezits, cheetos, Gerber crackers, Sesame Street organic crackers... Dinner is whatever we eat really. He loves spaghetti. We even bought him his own kind of pasta noodles! Salmon is still a fav:) He now eats when he wakes up, lunch at 11, snack at 2 and 4 and dinner at 6/630. He is one routined kid!


*Michael is super affectionate and sweet and adorable :) He loves to give us hugs and kisses. This includes his lil friends too! He not only likes to snuggle on us (when he is calm) but he also likes to snuggle in with his pillows and blankets. He is all about being comfy :)

*You guessed it! He is a walking machine!! He is walking so well too! He will try to run as well but usually falls on his face and laughs and then crawl the rest of the way :) He keeps us on our toes now!


Most importantly, Michael is happy. He pretty much has a smile on his face all the time, we swear. Ask his daycare teachers :)