13 1/2 Months

With all of the craziness of returning from vacation and the holidays, I am late in doing a post marking the completion of Finn's 13th month. I want to make sure I record some of the quirkiness from that month, so here goes:

• Finn got a walking bike for his birthday. At the time, he didn't understand what it was and was leery of us trying to get him to sit on the seat. Well, something magical happened at 13 months and he is happy to ride it around. He is also very good at ringing the bell.
• Finn has most certainly mastered walking, he is pretty good at running, and now his new challenge is climbing! Climbing EVERYTHING...couches, beds, chairs the outside of the crib, the open dishwasher, any overturned box or basket.
• He also likes to climb into things...baskets, boxes, the tub.
• He has a fascination with the trash can and likes to try to get into it. Yucky.
• He has a fascination with the toilet and likes to try to get into it. Double Yucky!
• He is getting better and better with using utensils by himself at mealtimes. He also will let us feed him with the spoon when he is really hungry. Yet, sometimes, he eschews utensils and hands altogether and likes to slurp things up from his tray with his mouth.
• He really likes soup.
• Finn got to try walnuts this week in the form of Lentil-Walnut burgers (from the original Moosewood cookbook - yum). This was his first foray into the world of nuts and he seemed to do just fine.
• We are not introducing cow's milk while he is still happy getting the uber nutritious mama milk, but he has stolen his cousins' sippys a couple of times and seems to like it.
• He is getting into dancing, particularly to Christmas tunes. It consists of him stomping around clog-style and shaking his head. Very cute!
• He LOVES to press buttons. He likes the buttons on the telephone, the laundry machine, the radio, the TV, the washing machine. We have a couple of the V-Tech magnet toys for the fridge and he loves pressing the buttons on those, especially the ones on a farm toy to the point that I will never get "She's coming round the mountain" out of my head! (Side note: there are six verses to the song if you are curious).
• We are lucky to live around several farms and stables with lots of horses. He loves to see them when we go walking.