Why I haven't posted much lately....

I've been feeling badly about not posting much lately. But when I finally got a chance to download the pics from my memory stick I saw why. The house might catch on fire if I took time out of the day from watching this kid. This Todd is into everything! (His nickname is sometimes Todd, short for Toddler.)
His current obsession is climbing. And he climbs everything he can. He climbs in drawers to get to higher drawers, on toys, in the picture where he's "reading" the WSJ he climbed the chair in the minute I went to get a coffee refill. I planned to take more pictures of him climbing, but in the short time that it took to take the memory stick from the computer and back into the camera he has managed to snatch it from the computer and we can't find it anywhere. And it could be ANYWHERE. We were missing the remote control for the TV for 2 weeks, and notice my pastry dough cutter nicely placed in the lamp in our guestroom.

The labor saving automatic dog feeder was not so handy once Miles got through with messing with the programming and we woke up one morning to a hill of dogfood pouring out the bowl.

The harassment of Pace continues at a healthy clip. Notice in the final picture he is getting a 2fer. Not only harassing the lamp but also note the cat tail poking out from under the bed as Pace flees to escape the Todd.

Despite all this the sweetest picture to me is the first one - it's the first time he used a straw. He was sucking down undiluted apple juice and acted like a happy drunk for a good while after all that sugar hit the veins.

14 months, Christmas and all that!

It's been wayyyy too long without posting. Since last meeting our hero he has become very good at walking, even running in a cute penguin running sort of way. His favorite object of adoration is Bella, they are ALWAYS kissing/licking in the mouth and it's disgusting but we can't make it stop all the time.
Pace, our poor old cat also gets more love from him than she probably wants but she tolerates him really well considering how people hating she usually is.
Christmas was sweet and wonderful. Miles enjoyed having his Uncle Alfred and Granny Annie over and they spoiled him with lots of love and attention. He has started swimming classes again this winter and also started itty-bitty gymnastics which is hilarious because he can't follow any directions and just runs around like a crazy garden gnome jumping on things and shouting "ahhhh!". He enjoys it.
Verbal skills still not great due to excessive pacifier sucking. He'll have one in his mouth, find another and try to suck two at once, it's that bad. He loves playing games with pacifier also, trying to lure me in with the offer than perhaps I can have a suck, then at the last second he'll pivot and give it to Norris and laugh, laugh, laugh. So the only major verbal development apart from the very good and endless "da-da's", and the sporadic "ma-ma's" is, no kidding, "yabba dabba do". He hasn't seen the Flintstones once either. I don't know where it came from but it is fitting seeing as he is kind of like a caveman with his primitive grunting, poor coordination and lack of social graces. Oh, and he makes the sign language sign for "more" when he wants food. So that's pretty neat.