Three Weeks until the Big 0-1!

I feel so old.

Updates on my development:

Walking: I am a walking champion (so much so that Mama put me in a track suit today and laughed because it's so true). I do laps around the apartment all day. Sometimes Mama feels energetic and lets me chase her, but sometimes she gets tired after 30 minutes and lets me go on my own. I've started trying to run, but usually my body moves faster than my legs and I fall on my face. When Mama or Daddy takes me to story-time at the library I walk around the whole time and don't sing songs with them. It's my plan to make them look like idiots singing to themselves while I laugh in the corner. So far it's working.

Dancing: I love to dance. It's so much fun. Whenever Mama or Daddy sing silly songs to me (usually involving the words "shake your booty") I dance around and shake my butt up and down. I usually get so excited that I fall down, but even then I keep dancing. I dance when I'm eating in my high chair. I dance in the car when we're driving to the store. I dance when I wake up and play in my crib before Mama and Daddy come to get me. I am a dancing fool!

Talking: Nope, not yet. All I can say is "dadadadada" which is right when I'm looking at my Daddy, but not right when I look at Mama, dogs, books, food, trees, etc. I'll get there though. Every once in a while I copy what Mama and Daddy say. So far I've "said" up, boom, uh-oh, poop, quack, and ba (bottle).

Reading: So this one's a long time off, but I do like to flip through my books and point to stuff and mumble to myself. I call that "reading," don't you?

Eating: I am a garbage disposal! Sort of. I've started eating more "real" food lately, and so far it's working out pretty well. It took me a long time to eat foods that weren't totally pureed, but now I like pieces of cheese, chunky oatmeal, little soft pasta, and toast. I really really like blueberries still, and my new favorite food is little tiny pieces of deli turkey. It's delicious.

That's really about it as far as what I'm learning goes. I can't wait for my birthday party when I get to go to the zoo with my whole family (I think that even Uncle Jared is coming, which, for those of you who know him, is a really big deal and I'm really excited) and all my friends.

Oh, I forgot to tell you that I officially have four teeth now. Two on the top and two on the bottom. They make eating things like toast much easier. And I need a haircut. Anyone willing to do it? Mama and Daddy are scared they'll poke my eyes out.