Thad's Antics

We went to lunch today at one of the many nearby burrito places, and Thaddeus was cracking me up there so I thought I'd put it down here!

He was eating a chicken quesadilla by holding one of the triangles and taking bites off of it. He feigned surprise at the taste of the first bite, even though he had already eaten two other triangles. After taking a couple more bites, with breaks in between to give Nathan huge, cheesy smiles, he peeled it open a little, stuck his finger through it, and held it up like a flag. Then he squeezed it in his little fist, placed it carefully onto his shoulder, and left it there. After he removed the quesadilla from his shoulder he asked for a chip by pointing and saying "duh?", and when he got it, he held it out in front of him with two hands and danced with it. We don't want to encourage him to play with his food so we tried to keep our laughter down, and did scold him when he threw something on the floor, but it is just so funny!

Another funny thing he did today was point to my chest and ask for "juice". For me that is a sign that he needs to be completely weaned as soon as possible before he gets too verbal about it and can argue with me when I tell him no! He is already down to just once a day.

bunny bear, meet toilet...

Today, Thaddeus discovered the joys of fishing.
Unfortunately, he was not fishing in a river. Further adding to the misfortune, he was fishing with his precious stuffed animal, bunny bear.
Needless to say, it was still very cute, and bunny bear is being washed!

15 months old

Nathan and I looked back at some pictures of Callia when she was around Thad's age and I thought it would be nice to post up a picture of each of them. Each of them are supremely special in completely different ways, and it is even evident in the pictures. Aren't they sweet? I love this age and both of these pictures.

I'm not sure if your browser is doing as bad a job of resizing the picture of Thad as ours is, but if so, click on it to see a clearer version at 800x600px.

Walking Baby

Yay! We've got a walking baby! He is unsteadily toddling around now, and has been playing in the yard some this week. He took his first steps about two weeks ago (oops, I should have written it down!) and just within the past two or three days he has been doing it enough that I actually expect it when I put him down, whereas before I was expecting him to immediately drop down and crawl. He is unsteadily toddling around on a fairly regular basis and has been able to play around in the yard a little bit, which he has enjoyed a lot and I have appreciated since I can put him down without him being in the dirt.

Hooray Thaddeus! We're so proud of you!

Censored

Baby's have no shame, and that can be really cute sometimes. We'll have to show his girlfriend this when he's 16...

"Uhm...there's something in there."

Today for the first time Thaddeus told us that he had a poopy diaper. He was standing in front of the TV watching it and I actually heard him do it, which is unusual. He turned around and looked at me and pulled on the bottom of his onesie, pointed to his butt, looked down there, up at me, down there and back up at me again and said "duh?" Nathan saw it happen, too, and we both had to laugh. Silly little guy. :)

Thad loves gadgets

Lately, Thaddeus has been obsessing over anything with buttons on it, or a flashy screen. So, he's been dying to get a hold of our cell phones and camera. I got a new cell phone yesterday, and he would start screaming his head off every time he saw it and didn't get it in his little hand. Not just "boo hoo hoo" crying, but full out shark attack victim screams. Crazy kid...