Does this boy look like a baby to you?  Look close, maybe a little bit of chubby cheeks or wobbly posture?  No?  Yeah, I don’t see it either.  He’s 100% little boy with not an ounce of baby to him.  He’s all long limbs and talking back.  Of course it’s expected but let’s all pause a moment to mourn the loss of baby in the Mac House. 

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OK, mourning complete.  Now we need to celebrate the little boy who has grown from that sweet, chubby little baby.  The boy runs through the house singing, he digs in the dirt, he sets up scenes with his animals and dinosaurs, he climbs to the top of jungle gym, he recites his favorite books to us, he describes his thoughts and emotions to us and thousands of other little things to show us his growth and development. 

It’s so fun to listen to his thoughts now that he has some vocabulary to share them with us.  Today in the car he looked a little sad.  When I asked him what the matter was, he said “I want to snuggle with my blanky.”  When we are out on a walk he often asks “what’s that sound?” or “what’s that I hear?”  I’ve started asking him what he thinks the sound is – on a hike he told me “it’s a dragon flying in the forest.” 

He doesn’t have his sister’s insistence on independence, but he is enjoying as he learns new skills.  He does know how to put on his coat via the good old “flip flop” method and his boots.  Sometimes he gets the details mixed up. 

We took the rail off his crib about a month ago, after witnessing some acrobatic escape moves.  He LOVES his “big boy bed.”  We don’t love it so much, since it means that bed time has become a muuuuuch more prolonged event.  We generally just leave him to his own devices following a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy to what happens behind his door at bed time (until we hear things get really out of hand).  He gets creative with pulling out every toy in his room, climbing the furniture and sometimes staying up until 10 pm.  Eventually he’ll be done with this phase – right?