Precious Wecious (weshess) Elliot

how would you spell that?? i took a guess since it's a made up word and all. anyway, that's what i call him, my precious wecious. ethan is my sweet boy and emily is my silly girl. just so y'all know. :)

elliot turned 13 months old yesterday. time flies!! these are good times. he's a sponge, learning lots of new things. his language skills are getting better. he'll copy you if he feels like it, says mama, waves bye and says it too. he shakes his head no as well. i don't think he really knows what he's doing, but it's funny. ethan was a late talker because emily talked for him. i think elliot will be somewhere in the middle.

elliot saying bye and going for the door

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emily and ethan really enjoy him, and he really enjoys being around them. when they are upstairs and he is down, he'll stand at the gate and shake it and yell out for them. it's funny. i've got to get that on video. it's like he's saying -- hey, get down here and play with me! it's fun to see him get excited when he sees them.

when he was 6 months old he learned to crawl. at 7 he learned to crawl up the stairs. yesterday, at 13 months old he tried for the first time to scale the gate. this past christmas my MIL gave a charm with a monkey face on it. little did she know he would turn into one. we joke he learned his monkey skills by listening to curious george in my belly. i had to grab the camera quick, but this is him in the act at 7 months climbing up the stairs!

this was the first time i tried to get him to say bye.

instead, i caught him on camera trying to scale the gate!

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this week his second tooth pushed through. you for get how sharp and white those new teeth are!! i can't wait until he has a mouth full -- then maybe he'll eat some table food!! he's a lot like emily with food texture. he just pushes the least little chunk out of his mouth. he'll eat french fries though. at least we can have a good time when we are out to eat. he'll gum a fry until it's nothing but starch. :) look close and you can see one of his teeth!

before i know it he'll be a true toddler, saying no and doing all the other things toddlers do. i'm not so sad anymore about him being our last. i'm ready now to have fun with three kids who are more portable. about 3 weeks ago i took them all to baton rouge to see their mae mae. it was not so bad. maybe we'll do things like that more often since he's getting older. but i do think it'll be a while before we take another 6 hour trip to BR...

troy, elise, emily and me trying to get him to say, noooo

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i think our family is complete. although today emily asked if she could have a guinea pig, and ethan said he did not want a guinea pig, he wanted a tiny, tiny dog someday, but today he wanted to pet a cat. how tiny of a dog? i thought. doesn't matter -- we are not getting any pets. we've got emily convinced we can't have a bird because birds live in trees and a tree can't fit in our house. so anyway, the human side of our family is complete. :0