Hiding & Eating

Tonight we realized that it was pretty quiet for about 5 minutes and we had to go looking for Brandon. After about 10 seconds of looking in all the places he could have gone (not many, the doors of all the rooms were closed and baby gates abound) we got worried. Until we heard some rustling... in the cabinets. Yes, Brandon was hiding from us. He's gone all terrain on us now too - in to and on to everything. We really have to be on our toes.

Brandon is also becoming a bit fussy about eating. Our normally fantastic, eat anything eater is now pushing forks away and refusing his once favorite foods. So we're trying to get creative and outsmart the 14 month old. Tonight I put his cheese and chicken on some toast and made his first sandwich. He loved it. So go figure. Who would have thought a sandwich would be creative enough for him not to refuse his cheese and chicken. What will I have to think of next? :)

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So tall...

For the past month Joby and I have been pondering the day when Brandon would be tall enough to grasp the french door handles on the doors in our house and therefore expand his area of influence... or destruction, take your pick. Today was that day. It's here. We have to activate plan B... buying special knob covers that will block him from opening the doors. He has known how to work the door handles for months and would often go up and point at them and fuss until we either opened the door or distracted him. In recent weeks he has become more insistent that he gets a bath every night - toddling over to the closed bathroom door and nearly reaching it. Tonight after he disappeared around the corner, down the hall to the bathroom door, I went to investigate. And there he was, holding a tub-time Elmo book he had fetched from the tub and backing out of the bathroom, trying to close the door... like he had never been in there; Almost like he wanted to keep it a secret that he could now open his most favorite closed door. We're in so much trouble...

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Bubbles!

When I got to my parents' house after work today I found my mom playing with Brandon in the front yard, per usual. But today she introduced him to BUBBLES! His hands were covered in dirt and soapy bubbles and he was just grinning at me when I pulled in the driveway. He was very pleased with himself. He would dunk the wand in the bubble mixture and brandish it to his side all the while blowing out... no where near the wand. And if we tried to bring the wand close to his mouth to blow through the hole then one of two things happened: He either pitched a fit because he wanted to do it himself... or he tried to eat the wand. :)

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Blowing Kisses

Today Brandon finally put it all together and will blow kisses "bye bye" when people leave and blow him a kiss first. It was hard for Joby to leave for work this morning because Brandon was just so darn cute blowing kisses back to him.

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