It's been a while

Hello everybody!  I haven't written in a long time because we were having some major computer problems that prevented me from posting blogs to this site.  But, since it's been so long, there is more to share!  Now that Henry is nearly 13 months old, he is an expert walker... in fact, he's basically running everywhere he goes.  He still loves to climb and will get up on the ottoman and couch all by himself.  His talking kind of comes and goes. Some days he's babbling all over the place and will say "dog", "dada", and even imitate a dog sound, "ruff ruff". Other days it's like he's focusing on everything around him and he's pretty silent.

Henry loves to read books now.  It's such a nice change.  He has a few favorites, but overall he likes books about dogs and most nonfiction books.  He also likes his books that have little puppets and textures for him to feel while he looks at the pictures.  A new favorite game is pulling all the books off the shelves in his room.   I can't wait for him to clean up after himself.  When does that happen?  Hopefully he'll inherit his cleaning skills from his father.

Henry had such a wonderful birthday!  He had two parties and we felt really lucky to have Grandma travel here from Florida and Stu, Tutu, Ryan, Shannon, B, and Quinn travel here from Cleveland.  Lots of friends came too.  Henry is having a blast with his new toys and books and I'm enjoying dressing him up in his new outfits.

Christmas was a lot of fun too.  We made a trip to Michigan where we hung out with some of my friends and family.  Henry got to meet cousin Kathy who was visiting from South Africa and my cousin Andrea, too.  He got to try ham for the first time too!  For the weekend of Christmas, we headed to Cleveland and had a great time visiting with Mark's side of the family.  Henry got to go swimming with Stu, Tutu, and his cousins.  He also had a great time chasing the dogs, running around, helping Stu mix drinks in the kitchen, and attempt to eat tissue paper.  It was a wild time.

Henry has been trying lots of new foods too.  Recently he's shown a great interest in strawberries, tomatoes, and peaches.  Today he even tried peanut butter and he loved it.  And... it's even easier for him to eat now that he has FOUR teeth.  His bottom central incisors came in first right before Christmas and his top lateral incisors are just starting to poke through.

At our 1 year doctor appointment, Henry was 20 lbs 1 oz (25th percentile) and 29.75 inches (50th percentile).  We were very excited that he had a growth spurt!  Now that we're able to post again to this site, I'll write more again very soon!