We had a busy but wonderful month of July. We did everything summer – the 4th of July, the boys’ 1st birthday, the boys’ 1st birthday party, splashing in kiddie pools, exploring the local children’s museum, enjoying the county fair, swimming in “big” pools, visiting the zoo, hanging out at a family reunion – whew – so, so busy but such a blast!
The boys have been “cruising” more & more lately – whether it’s along the furniture or the wall or behind one of the walkers – they also pull up on everything! Other new happenings: Wyatt loves standing on his head, Colton has a third tooth (on the right) on the bottom that popped through, Wyatt still doesn’t have any teeth, Colton bounces in his crib in the morning when I go in to get him up for the day, Wyatt loves to play in the dog dishes, Colton loves to play in the dog dishes after he sees Wyatt having fun doing it, Wyatt loves unrolling an entire roll of toilet paper in the time it takes to change one of Colton’s dirty diapers, Colton loves pushing around our mini-cooler everywhere!
The boys have been sleeping awesome. The boys are sleeping around 11 hours each night. They fall asleep somewhere between 6:45-7:15 PM. (Our new bedtime routine, since the loss of bottles is: bath (on bath night), lotion & jammies, blanket & book; and they do awesome with it!) They go to bed semi-awake and do a good job of putting themselves to sleep. They both have been sleeping until around 6-6:45 AM.
We had the boys 1 year pictures taken last week (on a beautiful summer day!) and now I am just waiting for the proofs to be posted online. Wyatt (even though he decided he didn’t need much of a nap that day) was in such a happy mode and did great. Colton (who slept like a champ so I thought I’d had no troubles with him) was just not in the mode to have his pictures taken that day. I’m hoping we got a couple good shots of them together…but we’ll see. They really had fun with their cakes (yes, cake smashing for the second time!) for the pictures too but still didn’t get totally into smashing them as much as just eating them.
Wyatt
Wyatt has been such a snuggler lately – and I’m loving it. He knows what his blanket is and will grab it and hold it up to his cheek if you ask him about it. He also randomly comes up to me and lays his head down – such a sweet boy.
Colton
Colton has started to say the word “Up!”. I use it with the boys every time they reach their arms up and I pick them up and it seems that he has really picked up on it. It is the first word that he seems to repeat when you ask him.
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| Packed up in the wagon...heading to watch daddy play softball! |
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