14 months and growing up fast!

Nicie is 14 months old today! Another month! Time is flying and my boys are growing up so quickly! I just printed some pictures from when we brought Nic home from the hospital and I truly cannot really even understand that he was that small 14 months ago!

Nic is walking and talking and climbing and holding my hand and running and smiling and waving and making friends and hitting and pushing and playing and throwing!

Walking - it is amazing how well he can walk already - he can walk backwards down a ramp and take small steps up and down while holding my hand (which he just started doing!)

Talking - Nicie is making more and more sounds. He is saying "Dadda" all the time - for everything - I haven't gotten a Momma yet! Steps, down! He loves to say down, as in, "put me down" so I can wander around and get into things!

Climbing - Nic likes to climb on and off things and he is pretty good at doing it. The other night we were out in Little Tokyo and he was climbing up and down large stone blocks in a plaza. He loves to climb on play equipment at the playground.

Holding my hand - I just wrote about that the other day! I love it - when he holds that little hand up so I can help him up or down a step!

Running - he is nearly running - he looks like he is going to fall of the time he is leaned so far forward when he is walking/running - he looks like he is skiing downhill! Somehow he doesn't fall and manages to move quickly enough I really have to work to keep up!

Smiling and waving and making friends - Nicie is very social! He loves to wave at people! Everywhere we go he waves - he waves while I carry him, while he is walking around. He waves at people and expects them to notice him - if they don't notice him at first he will keep on looking at them and waving and wait for them to notice him! His wave is the cutest twisting of the wrist and pointing of the thumb. I call it his royal wave and people love it!

Hitting and pushing - Nis still really likes to hit and push (mostly hit) and he can and does turn anything into a weapon. A phone, a toy, a spoon, anything! Just in the last day we seem to have finally gotten the idea of gentle through to him. I can now say gentle touches to him and he will touch me gently (this works when he has been hitting me) or I can ask him to do gentle touches with his brother and he will switch from hitting him to giving him a hug!

Playing and throwing - Man can Nicie throw! He can aim right at you and hit you with a ball - he can throw straight - big balls, small balls, anything! He loves to walk and clim and carry toys around and knock anything you are making down, and push toy cars around, and drive the toy fire engine (like brother) and get into anything brother is playing with!

My little boy is growing up - pretty soon I am not going to have any babies! Just toddlers!