14 Months

I'm a bit late getting this posted. It has been incredibly busy around here! Unfortunately, I don't feel like I did very good with taking pictures this past month. August has been sick for a few weeks with a cold and ear infection so it seems like there hasn't been very many picture opportunities....unless everyone wants to see pictures of runny noses, red eyes, and a very whiney boy :)

August no longer walks......he runs! With his hands behind his back?!?!?! So, guess what is the first thing to hit the wall or the floor? Yep, his head! The poor kid constantly has bruises on his head. I think that I remember when his daddy thought that it would be a cool idea to dive into the swimming pool with his hands behind his back....he didn't think about the possibility of hitting the swimming pool bottom with his head! Like father, like son :)

August LOVES to play hide and seek! I don't know if this is a good thing though! He has figured out that he can hide very well in my closet in the hanging clothes. Yesterday I didn't hear him for a while...which means that I need to go see what is going on. I couldn't find him and then I figured out that he was probably in my clothes. So, I went in and found him just standing there trying to hold in a giggle and just waiting. Am I ever going to be able to go anywhere with him???? I never understood why people put their kids on leashes.....I think that I might need to invest in one! Someone asked me the other day how I get him to sleep for 12 hours a night and not wake up. Well, the kid NEVER stops during the day. :) I wish that I could bottle some of his energy! Til next time.... August loves to climb into anything. Here he is sitting in the box of magnet toys.

Notice the beautiful fading yellow bruise on the head. He hit this exact same spot three times. Just as it was getting better, he would hit it again.
August is really into books lately. The other day I was cooking and he went and got a book and sat on the floor reading while I was cooking....of course this only lasted about 1 min. then he was on to the next thing.
Yes, he is sitting on the car.
A perfect distraction!

I never could get August to eat bananas....then I found out that if I let him take bites off a big banana then he eats almost the whole thing! He would have smiled bigger for the camera but his mouth was FULL of banana at the time. Problem is, he doesn't realize that he can't take the next bite until he swallows the first bite. Therefore, we end up with a very full mouth!

13 Months!

Has it really already been a month since August turned 1??? It seems like he is really turning into a little man. It is amazing the change that has taken place in one month. Its amazing that a year ago he couldn't even smile and now he actually understands what we are telling him. August is practically running around the house now. He still doesn't understand that he can get up in the middle of the room so if he falls he crawls to something in order to stand up. But...his main mode of transportation is now his feet instead of his knees. Thankfully that has helped his little legs not get so bruised up.....but it has not helped his head. He has a tendency to run into walls quite often....I think that he might have gotten that from his mother! Half the problem is that he loves to be chased so he will run down the hall looking behind him and run smack into a door frame or the wall. Thankfully he has a pretty hard head and seems to think that it is funny. Go figure...he gets THAT from his dad! August is really into books right now. He loves to point out different things and can look at the same book over and over. He is able to point out many different things if you ask them where they are and he is even saying a couple of words. Our favorite is his word for cookie....Mmmmmmm.
August reading a book before he goes to bed.
Hmmmm....this is a very serious book it looks like.
Wow! Does anyone think that this kid needs a hair cut???
Rocking to the music!
Hair cutting time. We learned that it is not easy to cut a 1 year olds hair! We used a lot of things to keep him busy. His favorite was playing with the phone.

August loves this tunnel that we got for him. He thinks that it is so cool to play peek-a-boo in it! He will sit in it and then fall backwards and roll. He reminds me of a hamster in an exercise wheel :)
Mom? Do you think that my 4 wheeler will fit in there?
Happy Valentines Day! August was super tired when we were taking this picture and couldn't get a smile out of him.

Its so hard to get a good picture of him now because he is always on the move. So, almost all of my pictures are kindof blurry.
I caught August running through the house with the bottle of syrup! He got it out of the pantry without me knowing! Thankfully I caught him before he figured out how to open up the lid.
Cheese Face!

Showing off his teeth! :) He has 8 now. He just cut a molar the other day!

Happy 1st Birthday August!

What a year! On the 14th, August turned 1! We can't believe how fast that year went. It seemed like just yesterday that our lives were changed forever with the arrival of our little precious boy. We finally became parents..something that we had been hoping and waiting for, for so long. It seems like just yesterday we held him for the first time, heard his first cry, and kissed those chubby cheeks. I remember so vividly how we nervously strapped him into his car seat for the first time and drove home to begin our new lives. Now...we no longer have a baby, but a little boy that is working on walking, saying his first words, throwing temper tantrums, and making us laugh every day. We can only imagine what the days ahead will bring us. I'm sure that there will be lots of laughter, lots of tears, and lots of praying for patience as our little boy grows and learns. When he was born he was 9lb. 3 oz. and was 22 inches long. Now, at one year he is 21 lbs. and 32 in. long. So much growing in a year! This first picture is August when he was just a few hours old and the next picture is one year old!

This past month was a busy one! We went to Grampy and Grammy Hartman's for Christmas. August got to take his first snowmobile ride! He was a bit scared at first but it didn't take him long to start his "vroom vroom"! He discovered a new toy for him....Grammy and Aunt Sandy's walkers!!! We eventually had to hide the walkers because everyone was tired of giving him rides on it :) Aunt Sandy didn't mind giving him rides because it was a good excuse to go by the candy table :):):) August took his first "good" steps on Christmas day. He is still working on the walking thing but goes further every day. He will pull himself up on something and make it to the middle of the room before he falls! The next week we headed to Texas for New Years. We had a lot of fun there with all the cousins! Then it was back home to start planning the first birthday bash! We had a great turnout and August LOVED his cake! I don't think that we will let him eat icing again! He was going in circles that night. He got lots of really cool toys!!!

August is trying to say so many words. He says Hot, Mama, Dad, Pa-Pa, and something that sounds like light and what's that. He uses sign language to tell us more and done. ANYTHING with a motor or wheels on it is "vroom vroom"!!!! He loves to play chase and loves to wrestle with Dad! He laughs when you tell him No, and throws his head back and throws a little tantrum when you take something away from him! That is where the praying for patience comes in! :) He finally cut a 7th tooth and we think some more are coming in !

Opening Christmas presents
He would rather just eat the paper
Going on one of his many rides on the walker
Reading a book with Grandma Joy and Aunt Sandy
My first snowmobile ride!
August LOVES his paw-paw! When we went to leave there he gave him a huge hug and wouldn't let go and then waved bye-bye to US!
Hmmm...does anyone else think this is illegal ? :) Well, we were only going 1/2 a mile down a country road to grandma's house :)August with great-grandma Byrd
Playing with Skye

Spaghetti mess
Boys and their toys :)
August and Paw-Paw reading Ripley's Believe it or Not!
Birthday Boy! I was surprised that he let me put this on him. I put it on him the other day and he took the elastic and snapped himself with it! OUCH!
The birthday cake!



I think this picture is hilarious. We were singing Happy Birthday and August decided that he was going to touch the flame on the candle. You can see Darren's hand trying to stop him.
This is what happens after a little boy gets burned by the candle! It only took a couple of licks of icing before he forgot the trauma that happened before!

UGH! Messy Messy Messy!
I think that it was at about this time that we decided that he had eaten enough of that icing!


August loves to climb in everything! Problem is that he can't get out.