Jon & Emmalee Day Family: Fifteen Months, Fall, and Fun Times!

Colton is 15 months old today! Wow! It's crazy how fast the time goes! I thought this would be a great day to update the blog with recent pictures and Colton's fifteen month personality!

Colton absolutely loves playing outside. He is a typical little boy and loves playing with sticks and testing out his limits. He's a little daredevil and likes to run up and down hills, climb around any stairs he can find, and balance on anything he can balance on. He even tries to come down the stairs face first, which has resulted in a few falls that freaked out his mother. He knows how to come down the right way and is very good at it, he just likes to test out new boundaries. He is still a picky eater and it's quite frustrating. He'll eat anything that's not food (leaves, paper, cardboard, etc.) but when I try to get him to eat some normal healthy food, he hates it. I guess I shouldn't say he hates EVERYTHING. He loves fruit, peanut butter sandwiches, graham crackers, cereal, and some pastas. It's just things like veggies, meat, rice, spaghetti, casseroles, cheese, etc. that he won't eat. He loves getting into anything and everything. Jon finally got me some baby proof locks on my cabinets so that has helped a lot but he still loves to pull out the pots and pans, and he especially loves playing in the lid drawer. He loves baths and going for walks and pretty much anything that takes place outside. He's not a very patient little boy but he does try to be good....most of the time.

He sleeps about 11-12 hours each night and takes one 1 1/2 hour-2 1/2 hour nap each morning at about 10:30am. He loves watching Clifford and Curious George and holding his Clifford and monkey stuffed animals while doing so. He still loves balls of any shape or size and has a pretty good throwing arm! His new tricks are spinning in circles, walking backwards, and walking around with blankets over his head. It's actually pretty funny cause he will walk right into walls because he can't see them but he just thinks it's great. He loves taking baths and he's learning to feed himself. He is better than I thought he'd be but still super messy! I think his absolute favorite thing to do is playing with daddy! He gets so excited when Jon gets home from work.

Words Colton says: Ball, shoes, baby, mama, dada, down, up, no, yes, hi, hello

Things he does: Point to his belly and ears when asked where they are, go get his shoes when asked, go get clifford when asked, go to the stairs when we say "upstairs", go to the door when we say "outside", give kisses, talk on the phone