lately.

i can't believe it's been a month since my last post...the days fly by.

stetson is growing so fast...still not walking on his own, still cruising the furniture. he's very cautious. he loves trying to stand various objects up on one end (remotes, hairbrushes, etc), closing things (doors, sippy cup, things that have lids), putting blankets over his head and/or back, throwing things from his high chair or car seat and saying "bye bye", and tearing tiny bits off the toilet paper roll. a couple of days ago he tore about a 6 inch piece of toilet paper off and i said "let's not do that buddy" and he picked it up and laid it on top of the roll. so cute. he also figured out how to the flush the toilet yesterday and he now knows how to pump lotion out of the bottle. we're also starting to notice how quickly he can ransack the entire house. i guess because he wasn't mobile for so long, we're just now having to deal with that. he's also in the process of getting his molars and it has not been fun. but thankfully he has been sleeping fine. he is a funny little fella which sometimes makes it hard to get on to him. we've just started doing time outs because on the occasion that he gets mad, he has started trying to pinch or grab at me and not in a cute way. yikes. i wasn't expecting this so soon. but the majority of the time he is so sweet and precious...giving kisses often. a couple of new words are "work" (when james is gone and i say where is da da? he says a slightly modified version...more like wor) and just this morning he said please without me asking him to (which sounded more like pee pee). james is on an 11 day trip to ireland and england right now and we miss him terribly. thankfully my mama is coming today to stay with us for a few days. she's going to keep stetson while i work and just help my feelings in general.