Ezekiel is changing by leaps and bounds!
He can...
- sit up on his own (he started doing this about a month ago---the weekend Uncle David & Aunt Chelle got married)
- crawl really, really fast.
- crawl into the base of his saucer and over some smaller things (like Malachi's bean bag chair).
- pull to standing pretty easily.
- push his "walker" around the house, walking behind it.
- sit up in the bath tub without the assistance of his seat.
- copy some sounds (especially bye-bye = "ba-ba")
- crawl to me and pull up on my pants/legs and whine for me to pick him up
- down 2-3 cartons of YoBaby yogurt a day
- hold and feed himself his bottle if he's really hungry
- try new things and chew up some "larger" bites of softer foods like bread, oatmeal, etc.
- shake his head back and forth in the no motion to show that he is full of food
- cuddle with the best of them
- drink soy milk instead of breast milk once or twice a day(which is good b/c I am working on weening him soon---I am so ready to be done with nursing, pumping, and all that jazz).
- give EVERYTHING the taste test
- get into whatever he sets his mind to do---he defies the impossible very often
***Malachi was just figuring out how to crawl at 11 months old. He was very smart and took things in, but nothing compares to how much Z likes to be in the middle of everything.***
"my zhames HUN-TUT" - Malachi James "Last name"
"zee zoot HUN-TUT" - Ezekiel Luke "Last name""da-da HUN-TUT" - Daddy "Last name" --- you get the idea:)
"day-days dut" - Daisy Duck
"don dut" - Donald Duck
"doo-ee" - Goofy
"poo dog" - Pluto dog
"mi-mi mouse" - Minnie Mouse (Mickey is still "hot dog mouse," most of the time)
"my nuts" - Malachi's donut
He has mastered his colors. He has a very good grasp on his animal sounds. You should hear him say ribbit or the noise an elephant makes. We ask him what the animals say. He'll usually answer with gusto. We starting asking him, "what does Daddy/Mommy/Z/Malachi say?" Here is his list of our "animal sounds." Dad - "Oh, Wow" Mom - "Hoo-hoo," (supposed to be Woo-hoo) Malachi - "Ah, Man," Z - "waaaaaaaa."
About a week and a half ago we had our annual Moore Hall girls' Christmas party. Malachi wanted to be in the middle of everything. He totally and completely surprised me. Anytime that we have had guests over to the house, he's been pretty shy. This time, he was around basically a bunch of "strangers." He was a HUGE SHOW-OFF! He had never acted like that before, but I digress. All the girls were sitting around the kitchen table talking while the boys were watching football & basketball. Malachi kept wanting to sit next to the new people and play with them. Someone looked at him and said, "You are going to be a ladies' man." He looked at the 2 "single" girls in the group (meaning no steady boyfriend or husband) and said, "Oh, Wow!"
I died! I don't know where he learned the meaning of that, but it was sooooo incredibly funny! You know how your parents used to embarrass you when you were a teenager? I realized they were able to do that because you (the child) had embarrassed your parents many, many times growing up. This is the first of many!
