So, my little man is 15 months old now and is just that, a little man. He prefers to read books whilst his diaper is being changed, only wants to feed himself and gets really mad if you try to help give him direction, he likes to grunt and yell, has a thing for the muppets DVD box and balls of all sorts. He also really likes this little white yorkie stuffed dog with a pink bow.
He talks a little, ball, mama, bye bye, baby, bow wow, moo are his limits right now with an occasional dada thrown in for good measure. He actually sits through entire movies (I know, bad mama sitting my child in front of the TV) such as Shrek and Finding Nemo. He loves to empty his book shelf every day and his current faves are I Love You StinkyFace, Buenas Noches Luna and Peek - A - Who? He is running around the house now, no second thought to walking. He *knock on wood* is putting himself to sleep and sleeping through the night now. Baths are still fun as is throwing food of all sorts to Portos. Pacifiers are never very far away but he doesn't need them to make it through the day.
Days in the infant room at daycare are numbered, he is already visiting the toddler room and fitting in perfectly there. He is eating at the big boy table and regularly sleeping on cots not in his crib. I met with Naheed for the last time today, in the next couple weeks he is getting the official boot from infants.
He still doesn't care what he wears so I dress him up anyway I darn please which is fun! Oh, and teeth, still sitting strong with 5.5 teeth.
What a difference a year makes.
A quick recap of this month which has been spent in Clintonville every weekend so not a lot of neat activities had. That is upcoming :)
Speaking of talking, here he is in action:
New Years Eve was spent with Auntie Sarah. Look how much fun is being had!!
Meh, I wish I could go out to celebrate and not be with these boring folks!
A picture says 1,000 words right?
This is a flash back to Christmas time and a picture I really like that Granddude took of us :)
We took a quick trip to the Home and Landscape show in the Metrodome and gave Mino the opportunity to poop there on the astroturf!!
Happy New Year!! Wow, 2012 ended on a sour note. This is an aside from the usual Benjamin banter b t dubs. In November Nana found out she had breast cancer, stage 0, ductal cancer in situ. If you are going to have cancer of the boob it is good, early on, non-invasive, but sucky none the less. She had a mastectomy on Dec 20 and a few complications there after that led to Hyperbaric Oxygen treatments twice a day to help with a patch that was not healing but it seems as if things have slowed down for the most part. She is going to have to have an extra surgery as a result, but things could have been much worse. The biopsy results are back and the margins are all clean, sentinal nodes are clean as well. I am so thankful that we live in a time and place that we can treat these things, even if they don't go as planned, because what on earth would this world be without a Nana.
Luckily Auntie Sarah didn't have to take the fall for ruining Christmas as is per usual during the holidays, Nana's left boob did the trick!
Oh, and Peefy is getting accupuncture now.
And full body massages. . .
Anyway, back to business. Wee little Min and I have been cruising around between MN and WI quite a bit these last two weeks. We headed over to Wisconsin a bit early to try to beat an impending snowstorm so we could be there when Nana got home from the hospital. Driving at night while he is sleeping is where it is at, I didn't see any deer in my headlights like the car in front of me did so all was well.
We hung out and Doctor Karen and Paige came to visit. Paige wanted to take Benjamin home, I offered him, but Dr. K declined. :)
We hung out and played in the snow.
Mino decided he had a new skill of feeding himself which I thought was pretty amazing.
Auntie Sarah and Uncle Aaron drove with Gryff out from Boston and had to time it perfectly to get between blizzards to make it in time for Christmas. They did it perfectly well.
Christmas eve is when Nana found out she was having some issues so gifts and the usual routine of Christmas morning was postponed til late night. It was nice though, we got to go to Christmas Brunch at the Paper Valley Hotel (thanks for the idea Diane!!) and eat a ton and not have to do dishes. Poppop was confused as to why we had do drive so far for breakfast, but didn't want to go back to Clintonville so I call it a success.
We made it back, Sarah and Aaron made it back from Phillips where they had Christmas with Aaron's family and
Nana decided this was the year for a Prime Rib (because she was directing and not actually cooking so wouldn't have to take the fall if it didn't work) and Yorkshire Pudding. We dined around 10pm. Usual Eurotrash style for the DeWolfs :)
Following Christmas Clintonville got hit with an unexpected 6+ inch snowstorm, and after several months of looking a sled that my grandma gave to me when I was little was discovered and Mino LOVED it. The kid has a need for speed.
And a mean arm for throwing snowballs.
After a quick stop in Ladysmith to watch the Packers lose (??!!!) to the Vikings with Aaron's mom we made it back to the Twin Cities with Sarah. I had to work New Years Eve so Sarah, Martin and Mino met me at Punch Pizza for lunch. Mino loves him some pizza.
His large head would explode if he were to eat pizza whilst being pulled in his sled methinks.
