Adler 13-15 Months!

I have decided to continue writing a monthly post for Adler but instead of one a month I will combine a few months. Hopefully they won’t be as long but I want to remember all his milestones. I hope I can keep this up and do it for my other children but we will see. I also heard a great idea of turning all these blog posts into a book for Adler when he is older or for myself. 

13 months:

-The biggest thing Adler is doing is walking!!!! He has been taking steps since he was 11 months but on April 27th he started walking! 

-Loves the water and when we were in Mexico my aunt taught him the basics of swimming like holding his breath and we can pass him back and forth between two people under water. 

-He smells flowers and it is so cute!

14 months:

-He folds his arms when we tell him it’s time for prayer

-He tries to snap and it’s the cutest thing!

-He can say grandma (ga-ma), ba (ball), Ba (bath), and car

- He gives hugs and I love it!

15 months:

-He know what a lion says, a shark (chomp while clapping his hands together), a snake (sticking his tongue in and out), a monkey, a sheep, a gorilla (bangs on his chest) and Darth Vader (thanks to his Opa!) We always joke that he still doesn’t know what a dog or cat says and those always seem to be the easiest.

-Whenever he hears a plane in the sky he looks up and tries to find it.

-He can find his nose, eyes, hair, teeth, tongue, chin and sometimes his ears. He can also find them on other people sometimes.

-I don’t know when kids get good at throwing balls but I feel like Adler has a good arm!

-For the most part he can identify my family in pictures even Grandpa.

-When he plays with cars (which he loves!) he totally makes sound effects. This makes Dane happy!

-He is working on saying everyone's name in my family. He can say Mda (Amanda) and Bri (Brittany) we are just working on Courtney and Melissa!

-These last two are my favorite and I need to get videos to truly show how awesome it is! 

1. If you have seen the movie Big Hero 6 you know that when Baymax does “pound it blow it up” he goes balalalala well when you tell Adler to “pound it” although he doesn’t make a fist (working on that) he totally makes the balalala sound with his tongue. I die every time he does it!

2. One time Courtney looked at Adler and pointed her fingers at him and clicked her tongue (click click) Adler looked back at her and copied her! We laughed so hard! He can’t stick his thumb up with his pointer finger but it is adorable!

Adler is growing so fast and I love watching his little personality come out! 

Look at this face!

I had to get us matching shoes :)

Playing in the kids pool

We got this cool Eagle balloon at a carnival and I wanted to take a picture of Adler with it but that was harder to do than I thought...I love his face in this picture.

Giving the eagle kisses 

I love his outfit here!

This was my Mother's day picture 

Love his dino pjs

I am so happy with this purchase! It was his birthday present and he loves it!

I love that face!

This is my favorite picture right now! Hugs are my favorite! 

Sitting in mommy's old chair

Watching the rain

Adler is 12 months!

This post is VERY late but we have been crazy busy these past few weeks (post on that coming soon)! 

Our little boy is 1! Can you believe it, because I can’t! He is the sweetest and smartest little 1 year old and I am so grateful that I am his mommy. His birthday party was a success and you can read about it here. Here is what Adler has been up to lately.  

-We had his 1 year old check up before we left Idaho which makes me happy that we fit that in. He is 31 inches tall (85th percentile) and weighs 19 lbs. 1 oz. (14th percentile). He got two shots in each leg which I hate watching him get. :(

-He still isn’t walking which I was kind of grateful for during our move but he still takes more and more steps each day and loves pushing his shopping cart around grandma’s house.

-If I hand him a brush/comb he knows that he suppose to brush his hair and it is super adorable. He’s not very good at it but I just think it’s cute he knows what to do with a brush.

-We tried to teach Adler sign language when he was younger but we weren’t good at being consistent so we gave up. At about 11 1/2 months we tried again teaching him “please” and “more”. We showed him for about 15 minutes and to our surprise he picked it up really quick! Sometimes his please is across his belly but he gets the idea and it’s so cute. Now we can say “What do you say?” or “Say please” and he will always sign it. “More” is a little more difficult but he does that one a lot as well.

-He knows where his toes and his tongue is. He can find our noses and sometimes his own. We are working on eyes and ears now. 

-He still climbs on and up everything he can. I’m nervous for him to start walking because then I feel like he will climb on even more!

-He loves to shake his head “no”. Sometimes we think he means yes, but he hasn’t mastered how to nod his head up and down.

-When we give him a phone or tell him to say hello he holds the phone up to his ear and it’s darling. He will do it with pretty much anything but he does it mostly with phones.

-About a month ago he figured out how to turn around and go downstairs. This is so great because my parents house has a lot of stairs. He can also do it himself so if we aren’t there to tell him to turn around he will get to the stairs and turn around on his own before going down. I’m still nervous to let him go downstairs alone (usually I am behind him) but it makes me feel good that he knows to turn around.

-He blows kisses and my favorite part is that sometimes he make the kissing noise. I love it!

This year has been amazing and we have learned a lot and loved a lot! We have had tears and laughter. We think Adler is the perfect little boy. I always tell Dane that there is no way we can be that lucky and have another child as good as Adler. We are so looking forward to all the adventures Adler’s next year will bring!

Here are some super cute pictures:

Loves stuffed animals like his mommy

I love when he does touchdown!

Our Easter outfits 

I love his overalls

Putting gel in his hair for his party because I was scared to cut it

I love his birthday pictures

Scrunchy nose smile

Snuggle time

He loves books

Whenever there is any music or videos on my phone he comes over and takes it

Walking Maggie

We have some beggars on our hands 

Our first family picture in Virginia 

Dane and Adler matched at church...It was Adler's nap time

Using a fork...This is really for his 13 month post but he's so cute!

I need to be better at taking more pictures and videos of everything so hopefully next post I'll have more videos and pictures.