What Dean's Been Up To

Words:
Hi
Bye
Mama
Dad ("da")
Cheese ("teece")
All done ("ah" With both hands waving- baby signing time)
Trash ("ess" when something is gone and he wants to throw away the wrapper)
Bite ("deet" or "dit" when he wants something to eat)
Drink ("Ee" and puts his hand up to his mouth- baby signing time)

Tricks:
Throws trash away, until he figured out he'd rather walk around with it. But then mom takes it and throws it away. I don't know why he keeps trying.
Blows raspberries with his face above the seat of our metal folding chair, creating a puddle of drool which he then smears around with his finger. (I promise I'll wipe them down before you come over and sit on them)
His toddling and waddling is turning into a run. Really starting to pick up speed
Points to his head, ear, eyes, nose, feet, and his favorite...belly. He even lifts up his shirt to show you
LOVES playing with keys and trying to put them in keyholes of doors and mailboxes...
Growing molars. It'll be nice for him to have them...but getting there is tough for everyone
Pulling off pen caps. Guess I can't let him play with the Sharpies anymore...
Flips his binkie without using hands if you put it in upside down
If he wants cheese or a Gogurt he goes to the fridge.
If he wants an Otter Pop (freeze pop for you East Coast people) he goes to the counter next to the fridge and tries to pull himself up. Why? I don't know.
Hi fives sometimes with both hands if you're lucky
Pats and rubs your back
Will spin in circles on command. Sometimes. The problem is that he tries to watch you watch him so it makes turning around difficult

He is still a SUPER picky eater
Started taking up at night again when he started getting molars
At his 15 month Dr appointment he was 2ft 9in (97%) 26.5lbs (90%) and head is 19.76in (still off the charts)
His sense of humor is so cute. He loves laughing and making people laugh. We play a game where he says something and I throw my head back and laugh, then he says something else and we both throw our heads back and laugh, and it goes on and on

In June we were lucky enough to go to the zoo with some friends. It was really hot, but Dean did great! He just sat in the stroller, eating snacks, watching animals.

Can't tell if this picture makes the lion look big compared to Dean, or makes Dean look big compared to the lion
I love this one because it looks like he actually knows a lion is on the other side of the glass, and he shouldn't be that close to it, and can't figure out why I put him there.

I loved this family of giraffes. Mostly because there was a tall mom, a tall dad, and a tall baby. Maybe giraffes will be our new mascot :)

Action shots

Oh no. You know where this is headed...
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Every kid should do this at least once.
He was LOVING it.

Dean striking a pose in California
Not really sure what he's doing

Dean is 12 months...

My baby is 1 year old
Here's a quick flashback

{For more, see 'Dean by the Month' on the right side of the blog}

12 months
Stats:
Height: 31.5" {95%}
Weight: 24 lbs 11 oz {90%}
Head: 19.5" {off the charts}

Yeah, my big kid...

{Dean's cheesy smile when he's being a ham for the camera}

Hmmm..What to say about Dean as a 1 year old....
-experiments with walking, but knows that crawling is faster, so he usually picks that.
-although, he loves walking while holding our hands because he can do that fast and with confidence
-finally adventurous with eating and fun to feed! I had a friend who said a while back that it was cool that her and her baby could eat the same things. Now I can finally say that too!
-his favorite foods right now {if he won't eat anything else, I know he will eat}: multi-grain toast, graham crackers, grapes, chicken nuggets, cinnamon life cereal, mandarin oranges, big-people oatmeal {as opposed to the Gerber stuff}, macaroni and cheese, and pouch foods like this:

He still will not eat baby food from the jar, and probably never will. But he loves to suck these pouches like they are a straw. Whatever works Dean...

-loves waving bye and says "aiy-ya"

-Says "mama" and "day-ya"
-still curious about everything and exploring

{check out the cutest tip toes you'll ever see. He'll even get up on point if desperate enough!}

-started pointing this month! SO cute! Points to what he wants and where he wants to go if we're holding him. Haha he points out towards things, but his pointer finger usually faces upwards.
-pats us on the back when we're holding him. Yeah, we're going to assume patting instead of hitting...
-putting that new climbing skill to mischievous use...
-loves the clean up game. Not that he actually knows he's cleaning up, but he likes putting things in containers... hope that sticks around :)
-obsessed with lids. We have snack bowls with lids for travel, and I'll take a treat out, then he'll put the lid back on while he chews, I'll take one out, lid back on, and it continues
First Easter
First Birthday
It was an amazing, crazy, life changing first year. And we can't wait for many many more with this guy!

Dean 11 months

I can't believe our Bean is one month away from being a 1 year old!

Here's what he's done this month:
-finally, finally, finally started eating food! Baby peach puffs, baby cheese puffs, yogurt melts, little bites of whatever i'm eating, and of course...baked lays...
-jabbering (jargoning?)... talking like he's actually saying sentences, but in a foreign language
-cruising along furniture, moving from furniture to furniture
-watching a little Baby Einsteins, mostly when he wakes up at 6am before mom is ready to be functional
-There was a week or so that I would have to give him a chip to keep him still long enough to get his clothes or diaper changed
-road tripped to New Hampshire (post on that coming soon)
-he's started being destructive...hitting toys together, crushing food we give him or hitting it against the table, picking up and throwing things that are in his crawling path
-He is up to 6 teeth! 4 on top, 2 on bottom.
-He's gone through a fussy/yelling phase (probably due to the teething mentioned above). But the boy has definitely learned volume and gets pretty dang loud.

Mostly, it's just been fun to see him go from baby to kid...
See what I mean:

He's trouble(permanent marker on his face and chin folds)

Speaking of chins and folds...
He is getting taller, thinning out a little, and I actually see his neck more than just bath time when I would lift his chin to clean his neck.
He plays and explores

Loves playing/tagging along with the big kids
Luckily, they like Dean as much as he likes them

(Can't keep him out of the Burger King play place)

Did I mention he's getting tall?

(too tall to stand under a kitchen table)

He can {kind of} walk with only one handed assistance

Loves playing with his dad

{who is apparently way more fun than mom}
(if you make this picture bigger, you can kind of see his top teeth. Cute and gappy)

He just starting holding his own bottle {finally}
And now holds everything like he's drinking from a bottle

Did I mention he's getting tall???

He's started climbing over things...

Into things...

And I probably already mentioned that he's tall...

Oh, and I had to document one of his sad faces...

And of course
Videos.

What our General Conference weekend was like:


Loves when we help him drink out of a big cup, or tries it himself.


Little bit of his one hand walking.


23 days left of year #1!

Dean turned 10 Months!

(two weeks ago)

I seriously love this age.

Dean is more fun, less work, and we've seen more and more of his personality. He is silly, adventurous, social, flirtatious, needy, and very curious.
He thinks he is a big kid.
He gets into everything now.
He carries toys in his mouth while he crawls.
He walks like a champ with push toys.

He is finally starting to eat big boy food!!!
Though he is non-committal about foods... for example he will only eat a certain food for a few days then refuse to eat it again.
The one food he will ALWAYS eat....

Baked Lays.

Showing off 2 of 4 teeth

I LOVE this picture.
This is our bedtime routine: tub, lotion, jammies, eat, bed.
Dean hates the lotion/jammies part. So Alex distracts Dean with videos on his phone.
The videos are of Dean. I love that he loves videos of himself.
And, Dean looks so big in this picture.
I can't believe it.

Helper? Explorer?
...Trouble....?

Dean loves the bathroom. Almost as much as his mom.
This is what happens when she showers:

Can you believe he is tall enough to touch the doorknob?!
Me neither.

Playtime with dancing Dean


Love this noise he makes. Love him in his diaper.


Love spending all day with this face and silliness.