Midsummer Sprinklers

Not much has changed in two years.
Little Rock still loves summertime sprinklers.

Summer Sprinklers

Little Rock discovered the joy of the humble lawn sprinkler earlier this week.
At first the cold water shocked him. He quickly recovered and was hooked.

15 months and what do you get

• Two new teeth for a total of eight, six on top and two on bottom.
• Mastery over stairs this week, after falling down the porch steps last Friday.
• Love of food, particularly bananas, pasta and ham.
  
• Dramatic flair, on display during temper tantrums.
• Words
• First words: "uh oh"
• Words for everything else: "dadada"
• Parrot words: "dank yu" and "more"

And now two pictures:

First Haircut

Daddy Rock has been threatening to cut Little Rock's hair since Christmas. I successfully managed to hold him off -- until this past weekend.

I was nervous about the prospect of giving a constantly-moving-13-month-old a haircut, but it was surprisingly easy. First Little Rock sat in Daddy's lap while he got a haircut to get used to the sound of the clippers. Next I snuck the clippers down and trimmed Little Rock's hair. When he started getting antsy we bribed him with his favorite puff snacks. It was over in a matter of minutes with no tears.

Before

After

Two Rocks

Toddler Boy

Little Rock is officially a toddler. He got tired of hanging on the furniture and struck out on his own on Valentine's Day. He hasn't stopped moving since; He is simply motion in tiny human form.

He started daycare at the beginning of February. Since then we've experienced multiple colds, pink eye and the stomach flu, yes Mom and Dad too.

He had his first taste of cake for his birthday and was smitten. He is starting to communicate more - well when he sees tasty food such as cupcakes he makes lots of noises.

Here are 12 pictures from month 12:

Little Ladies Man

We stopped by the mall today so that Little Rock could stretch his legs at the play area. At first he just sat there in awe of the screaming children running laps around the area. Then he crawled over to the big tree in the middle and started trying to climb up the slide. He cruised around a bit and somewhere along the way he picked up two older chicks.

Snow!

It flurried a bit yesterday though nothing stuck. Then when we opened the curtains this morning the whole world was covered with a cold white blanket of snow. After breakfast I dug out my ski pants and pulled the man's snowsuit out of the back of the closet. We bundled up and headed out to experience it first hand.