happy 11 month birthday to me

things i like:

• standing up, unsupported
• clapping (i can even multi-task — clap while standing!)
• signing “i’m #1!” (daddy thinks i’m pointing)
• waving
• “redecorating” the house (bringing mama’s knee-high boots up the stairs, sliding mama’s iphone across the floor into the kitchen, taking gung-gung’s exercise gear from his room to the living room)
• rowing (rocking back and forth) on mama while we sing “row row row your boat”
• drinking out of a straw
• working out at the gym (i did assisted pull-ups at the little gym this week!)
• watching koda play with his friends
• tugging on koda’s ears and turning them inside out
• feeding myself finger foods (and smearing them all over my face, and rubbing them in my hair, and feeding them to koda…)
• ramming my ride-on cars into people’s shins
• riding on my ride-on cars (finally learned how to ride on them instead of walking behind them)
• playing with the pop-up sink drains in the bathtub and sinks
• dancing (i’m really just standing in place and bouncing, but auntie jill says that it counts, since that’s how most grown-up men dance )

things i don’t like:

• staying still (i have to be moving around ALL the time.  and as i get faster and faster, it makes it hard and harder for anyone to photograph me!)
• when mama tells me “NO” in her i’m-not-playing voice
• walking (i take 1-2 steps, then faceplant)