15 months old

Our little booger is now 15 months old! I don't want to blink anymore. It goes to fast and I'm afraid that I'm going to miss something! It seems like this month August is learning more words. Even though we are probably the only ones that can understand what he is saying. He knows what he wants and will say it but usually says just the first syllable. He's getting there though. We have been pretty sick around our house with a stomach bug so this past week has been a hard one. August doesn't do sick very well. He gets pretty whiney and cranky and needy.....just like his daddy :) And it seems like it takes forever for him to get over something. He is still running a fever and won't eat or drink hardly anything. I'm afraid that he's going to waste away to nothing. I'm already afraid to take him out side because the wind will just pick him up and blow him away! I took him to the doctor this week for his 15 month check up. He only weighs 21 pounds which is in the 14th %tile. I think that he weighed more than that before he decided to puke up everything that we put down him, including water. He is now 32 1/4 in. long which is in the 83%tile. According to their measurements, he only grew a 1/4 in. but I'm pretty certain that is wrong seeing that he doesn't fit into his 18 month footie jammies anymore! He was wiggling around quite a bit when we measured him.

This month we took a trip to Granbury, Texas to see our cousins Brad & Lesha Coker and their twin boys, Trace and Trevin. We had a wonderful time, saw beautiful country, and got a lot accomplished :) Maybe we will be neighbors someday?

August got his first "official" hair cut this month. Daddy cut it the past two times but he is just getting too wiggly. It didn't turn out to bad. It was super short afterwards so it was hard to get used to but it is already growing out so much that he almost needs another one. I was sad to see the little curls go away though :)

It was finally nice enough one day to let August go outside and play. Poor guy couldn't figure out how to walk in grass! Be sure and look at the second picture down from this one. It was taken only two days later.....Colorado weather for you!
This is how you keep a little boy away from fresh paint! He wasn't too happy about it!
Yep, now its snow!
We bundled August up and let him go outside and play. He doesn't have very good mittens so these kept falling off. But that was ok with him because it was easier to eat the snow this way! That's all he wanted to do.
One of the words that August knows how to say very well is Brrrrrr! I guess that's all he knows right now. Everytime I tell him that we can't go outside right now because its too cold he says, Brrrrr!
Redneck sledding!
Nothing like an early morning sunrise coming through the windows to show off my cool rooster tail!
This is Brad's invention! I have to admit it worked pretty well.
The walking trail in Granbury, Tx


This is not the best picture at all but I love his facial expression here as he is about to go down the slide. With the nice weather lately we have gone to the park several times and he loves to climb up the stairs and go down all by himself!
I was trying to get a picture of all thee boys but of course they wouldn't stay still. So, here is Trace and Trevin and August in the background!
Bath time for the boys
This is cool mom! I think that you need to get some bubbles for my bath!
I want the toy in the very back!
Just playin
Daddy doesn't know how to sit in a hammock. Does this look comfortable to anyone?
Here I go a easter egg huntin!
Some of the kids at the easter egg hunt. It was impossible to get a picture of all of them. They were just ready to GO! August was more interested in taking the grass out of Trevin's basket. This did not go over so well. But after we got all the grass returned to the basket, they were ready to go!
I got one! Nice wind hair!
Here's another one!
Running back to Daddy to put it in the basket.
This is not a great picture, but we didn't realize that August had put a whole kiss into his mouth, foil and all. This is chocolate all over his face. I think that he enjoyed it!
This kid puts everything in his mouth. He is walking around with a ball in his mouth! I don't know how he got it in there but he thought it was funny.
Look mom! I found the PERFECT spot to park my ball popper!
Ouch! This is August first REAL big oops. He ran into the corner of a desk and had quite the goose egg for several days. This is several days after it happened so it is starting to fade a little.
Finally a smile for the camera.
Playing outside on the deck in my new cowboy boots.....from Walmart!!!!
I love my new boots!

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!