I guess the most exciting thing that has happened since I slacked on this blog was our baby boy turning one year old! That is pure craziness right there. It seems like just yesterday he was a tiny, squishy little newborn. *sigh*
He had a wonderful party!
We had his party on Saturday August 15th, two days before his actual birthday and, coincidentally, on his actual due date. Guests who attended were his Grandma and Grandpa Griffin, Papaw and Mamaw Dodd, his (Great) Mommom, (Great) Aunt Ye-Ye and (Great) Uncle Darrell and their children: Heather, Hali, Jessica and Hunter, Uncle Kaleb, Uncle Katun, Aunt Hannah, Uncle John and Aunt Donna and their children: Clay, Bailey and Ethan, and a wonderful friend of the family, Ryan.
The child was spoiled rotten with presents! He received a Cozy Coupe Car, a Little Red Wagon, a Basket Ball Goal, Mega Blocks, balls, bats, trucks, tractors and much more. He wasn't sure what to think of his smash cake in the beginning, it was his first taste of something so sweet. He warmed up to it pretty quickly though and dug right in. :)
We had a great time visiting with friends and family and are so thankful that so many gathered together to shower our sweet boy with love.
Here are some pictures from the party:
We're back! :D
Seriously though, I've decided that it is time to get this blog caught back up and start keeping it updated again. I didn't just drop off the face of the earth. There were specific reasons that I stopped updating this for awhile, but I don't feel like they need to be rehashed here right now. I've decided that those things don't matter so much to me anymore. I've got family far away who don't use facebook, and I know that they are missing the pictures and updates of my little man. So here we go again!
First, I'll start with updating you all on Trevor's latest milestones and such. Throughout the next couple of days there will be tons of pictures posted until I get caught up completely, so bear with me! :)
Today Trevor is almost 15 months old. I can't believe the time has passed so quickly! As I'm typing this, I'm watching him run around the backyard like a madman. I can't believe my baby is already a little boy.
He has 9 teeth currently and is in the process of cutting number ten: four top front center teeth, four bottom center teeth, one top molar and cutting molar number two. He eats anything and everything we eat with his favorite foods being spaghetti, bananas and strawberries. He just recently started eating a bowl of cereal with milk like a big boy. It is adorable. He can use a spoon really well and is learning how to use a fork. He is still nursing about four times a day, first thing in the morning, before nap, before bed and once in the middle of the night somewhere. I plan on letting him self wean and I am stoked that he is still nursing considering how rampant the flu is this year. What better immune booster is there?
Trevor is trying SO HARD to start talking! His sign language has also really taken off. He doesn't do all signs the "correct" way, but does them consistently. One doctor said that it doesn't matter if you just make up your own signs, as long as the child uses them consistently for the same item.
Words he can currently say:
Mama
Dada
bye-bye
book
He is trying to say (words that aren't clear yet):
balloon
ball
cup
banana
kitty
puppy
baby
These are the words that he is currently using sign language for. (I love this. Signing makes tantrums happen less frequently, not to mention it is as cute as heck!)
Signs:
drink
eat
help
airplane
bath
banana
thank you
book
more
all gone
hot
milk
Airplanes and kitties (ke ke key-ye) are the love of his life right now. We live really close to an airport and he LOVES watching the planes fly overhead. He points up and says "huh?" (his favorite word) and now makes the sign for airplane. So stinking cute.
At his twelve month checkup, which really happened at 13 months, he weighed 24 pounds and was 33.5 inches tall. He was in the 50th percentile for weight and way off the charts for height. He gets that from me. Yeah right. lol.
His favorite games lately are being chased, a Trevor version of hide and seek (which ends in chasing), peek-a-boo, tackle the cat *rolls eyes*, and patty cake. He LOVES to dance and I have decided that nothing else in this world is cuter. (Video to follow at some point.) He still has a love for balls, blocks, anything with wheels and absolutely adores books. Rusty Robot is currently his favorite book and I bet we read it at least twenty times a day. LOL
Trevor also loves to color and finger paint. He will scribble on a piece of paper for an astounding length of time, and is quite good at handling a crayon. Maybe we have an artist on our hands? His favorite time of day is still bath time. He is very much a water baby. He loves to play outside. I think he would live out there if I would let him. He spends a lot of his free time climbing. Anything is fair game. The couches, end tables, the kitchen table, any stable toy: all suitable for climbing. This keeps me very busy trying to keep him from killing himself. There is never a dull moment here!
As far as the rest of us, we have settled in nicely here in the Fort. It is starting to look like a home instead of a house, the backyard is full of toys and it doesn't feel so foreign anymore. I still miss home terribly, but we are all doing just fine here for now.
Coming soon:
updates to sidebar widgets
Pumpkin Patch Pictures
Halloween Pictures
and other randomness
So stay tuned!
I'm slacking on this blogging thing lately. Sorry. I'll try to do better. :P
Anyway, how about a random update of sorts?
Trevor can say Mama and Bye-Bye now, he loves to play peek-a-boo and loves to be chased. He cut one of his top teeth last week and is working on popping another one now! He has mastered drinking out of a sippy cup, loves the sprinkler but not the pool, can run faster than I can walk, goes to bed earlier, sleeps later and is almost sleeping through the night. He eats anything we eat and is developing his own opinion of things-which he makes sure you hear (whether you understand it or not).
We spent the fourth of July here in the Fort. We attempted to fire up the grill and BBQ some ribs and were met with a heavy thunderstorm. Josh brought the grill under the porch and managed to get our dinner done, just a little later than planned. LOL
Anyway, my thoughts are scattered tonight and I'm ready for bed so I'll just post some pictures and promise to make an attempt to blog more often. :)
And pictures to prove it. ;)
The word that seems to define my daily life with my little man right now.
Trevor is sleeping in his own room now. After one long night of a screaming baby and imagining smothering my loudly snoring husband with my pillow, we decided we might all sleep better if we moved Trev into the room across the hall. He has been in there almost two weeks now. The first week sleep was really no different, but this past week things have been smoothing out. He has seemingly dropped his afternoon nap and moved his bedtime up an hour, and in turn is sleeping MUCH better through the night. Instead of waking every couple of hours, I'm now getting 4-6 hour stretches which is wonderful. Plus, instead of going to bed at 7:30 and waking at 6am, he is now going to bed at 6:30 and waking at 8am. Go figure. While the extra sleep is nice, and he does occasionally end up in our bed, I miss having him so near to me all night long.
Today, Trevor signed milk (for nursing) for the very first time. I've been signing it to him for a few months now, and this morning he surprised me by crawling into my lap, signing for milk and tugging on my shirt. He was SO proud of himself when he realized that he communicated to me exactly what he wanted and got it. I was just as proud. Now I need to pick a few more signs to work on with him.
And, to top it all off he is saying "Mama" now. Today Josh was putting himself in between me and Trevor and saying "My Mama" and Trevor started whining and said Mama twice as clear as day while he was reaching for me. He has been trying to say it for awhile now, but today it was so clear and it was obvious that he knew that Mama meant me. Josh is a little jealous that he hasn't said Dada yet, but I have a feeling it won't be long. Dada is becoming the cool kid lately.
My little baby is growing so quickly into a little boy and it is oh-so bittersweet.
I figured I might post a new blog considering I did start it to keep you all from going into Trevor withdrawals while we are away. ;)
I don't always have my video camera at my side (bad mommy) but I do usually have my cell phone. So for your viewing pleasure, here are some random cell phone videos from the past few weeks, all of which are 30 seconds or less. :)
I finally have the time, and the want, to sit down and blog.
We arrived at our new home safely and the trip went so much better than I ever expected! Trevor hardly cried at all on the way out which was wonderful. He was such a good traveler. Everyone has settled in nicely, including the cat (thanks for trying though Vic lol). The house is really nice, the neighborhood is ok, our landlord is great, and we are pretty happy with where we are.
Memorial Day weekend was last weekend (duh) and our good friends John and Lisa made a little drive down to spend a couple of days with us. They brought their two year old little girl and she and Trevor got along better than expected. She wanted to play Mommy with him and help him stand up which ticked him off to no end and he tried to steal anything and everything she was eating out of her hand which made her SO mad, but other than that they did great! LOL It was fun to watch them together and nice to spend time with old friends.
We blew up the Frog Pool for the kiddos on Sunday.
Trevor didn't want in the pool because the water was so cold, but he loved the sprinkler! 
The next day we converted the pool into a mini ball pit but still hooked up the sprinkler part and they had a great time with that too. John and Lisa's little girl got quite upset with Trevor because he thought it was great fun to throw all the balls out one by one. She would go get them and say "NO NO BABY! NO NO!". It was hilarious!
All in all, we're settling in quite nicely. We like it here. :)
I am just one royal mess today. I finally caught P.S. I Love You on HBO (the movie that Ashley and Vicki tried to get me to watch while I was pregnant...but I refused because I KNEW this would happen and with pregnancy hormones OMG). Worst best movie ever. Seriously. I cried through the whole damn thing and haven't stopped crying since. *Sigh*
Of course it doesn't help that I am waiting on MY wonderful husband to come home today. Or that I'm sick and feeling like crap already. Or that my house is as much of a mess as I am. Or that Trevor has been a blur of giggles and toddles and it breaks my heart just as much as it makes me proud that he is growing up.
I HATE sappy movies.
Have I ever told you that Josh bought the movie City of Angels off of Ebay, because he couldn't find it anywhere, just for the sake of seeing me cry at the end? (I didn't by the way. He was crushed.) LOL
So, I sit here...blogging about nothing...waiting for Trev to wake up from his nap...thinking of all the things that I should be doing instead of this...crying over a stupid movie that just ruined my whole day.
Can you believe that this adorable little man is already almost 9 months old?
I can't.
I just want to squish him and make him stay little forever.
In case you haven't caught on yet....we're still at home. For now. We should be will be leaving after Mothers Day Weekend. Until then, we're just hanging out here at home, listening to the frogs sing and waiting on Josh to come home and take us away with him!
Today, Trevor and I took advantage of the wonderful, rain-free weather and played outside for a good chunk of the afternoon. He is barely crawling at all anymore, obviously preferring to take every opportunity to practice his mad walking skillz.
Trevor can put his balls into his dinosaur toy all by himself.
Trevor can walk halfway across the living room without falling.
Trevor can clap.
Trevor can wave bye-bye.
Trevor can feed himself.
Trevor can spend an entire hour away from Mommy and be OK. (Mommy however, is a wreck)
Trevor can get through the baby gate.
Trevor can empty the dogs water bowl in 2 seconds flat.
Trevor can flush the toilet one hundred times while Mommy is in the shower.
Trevor can open any cabinet door.
Trevor can empty any cabinet of all of its contents before you realize that he has opened the cabinet door.
Trevor can go up stairs.
Trevor can empty the DVD tower quicker than you can pick them up and put them back.
Trevor can squeal loud enough to make you deaf for an instant.
Trevor can go to sleep by himself.
Trevor can spot a paci from a mile away.
Trevor can crawl faster than you can run.
Trevor can stand up by himself.
Trevor can tell the difference between a real remote or cell phone and an old broken one.
Trevor can write text messages.
Trevor can channel surf.
Trevor can sleep for 6 hours straight, although he most often chooses not to.
Trevor can find pieces of lint that the vacuum can't even pick up.
Trevor can be shy.
Trevor can do anything that he sets his mind to, given enough time.
Trevor can make me laugh when all I want to do is cry.
*Trevor is 8 months and 2 days old*
