cousins

you have so much fun with your little cousins. They love you and take good care of you. Your little cousing Anli seems to especially love to play with you and is always so excited to see you and make you laugh.

17 months!

Wyatt. My darling, giggly, cute Wyatt! You are getting so big now! You are a little toddler running around. You have the cutest sense of humor. You do funny things to make other kids and your mom and dad laugh! (for ex: you make funny noises with your mouth, run and then pretend to fall...) Dad and I were hanging out with you in the basement last Sunday for Conference....you loved me and dad giving you full attention and you ran around babbling and laughing and just loved us watching you. You LOVE your daddy. We went to his church basketball game last Tuesday night and watched him play. We always bring your mini basketball for you to play with while you watch dad play.:) This time you wanted to run out on the court and play with them and every time dad would run by, you would start to cry a little b/c you wanted him to play with you. It was so darling. And then the ball went out of bounds so dad came to the sidelines to throw it in and you ran right over, before I could grab you and wrapped your arms around his legs as he threw the ball to his teammate! I don't think there was a person in the room who wasn't laughing at how cute it was! So after that when dad was sitting over by the team waiting to go in to play again, he came over and picked you up and let you sit on his lap while he sat with the team. You looked SO proud and sat there very still, holding your little ball, with the most content and proud look on your face. It was priceless. Some things I'm starting to notice about you....you are daring, not afraid to go right up to animals. In fact, at the park not too long ago, there were 2 HUGE great Danes....they looked like mini horses. You walked right over to them and let them lick your hand (i made SURE they were safe with the owner, she told me they love kids and not to worry at all:). YOu are 99% BOY...you love throwing rocks, you love to GROWL and pretend to scare people, you love to knock down towers made of blocks, you love to pull hair and then laugh:), you love love love electronics and cars!(one of your favorite things to do right now is sit in the car and pretend you are driving it..you could do it for hours i think!), you love phones, computers, ipod, any electronics you can get your hands on....now for the 1%..you have a soft tender side that is adorable. YOu love to hold little baby dolls and pretend to feed them a bottle and hug and kiss them. It is darling. You love to turn off and on the light switches in our house. YOu aren't a big stroller or carseat fan. I usually end up carrying you the whole time in the store or when we go out, b/c you are not a grocery cart fan either. I carry you and snuggle you all the time. I love it. I can't get enough of you. In fact, whenever we go on walks, the neighbors ask why I don't use the stroller, I just tell them you don't like it. But really it is just cause I want to hold and snuggle you and talk to you as we walk and look at all that is around us. We have our "routine" things we do on walks: look at and pet the dogs, say "pokey pokey ouch pokey pokey" as you touch the neighbor pine trees, and you love to touch anything else along the way, we also pick up a stick that you hold during the walk and wave it around and then we go inside and "show daddy what we found." You hold the stick up like it is so amazing and dad just loves it and says, "WOW cool wyatt, cool stick!" You and your dad are the cutest little buddies. He spends a lot of time with you playing in the basement with the toys, building towers, helping you shoot hoops in your little basketball hoop, and you love it when he shoots the styrofoam arrows and helps you shoot people with it. YOu have this cute smile that you do here and there, you show all your teeth and it is like its a "camera smile" and a big cheeser smile, it is adorable! YOu smile lots, but once in a while you will do this smile to me when I look at you and smile. In the car sometimes I will look back and smile at you and you will give me that darling smile. Wow Wyatt you just have me and dad wrapped around your little finger. We spoil you and then spoil you some more. You mean everything to us and are such a sweet and darling little guy. We are so lucky to have you.