In the Morning

Rowan has always been an early riser. If he sleeps until 6:30am, I'm overjoyed. Most of the time, he wakes up at 6:04am. Sometimes, it's as early as 5:30am. If it's the weekend and it's earlier than 6:30am, I'll get him out of the crib and put him in bed with us. Sometimes he'll doze off for another 30 minutes or so, but most of the time he tries to jump up and down or hit your face until you pay attention to him. And he isn't one of those kids who like to lounge around in the morning drinking coffee. Once he's up, he's up and ready to go.

Jason decided to document Rowan the other weekend. Here are some shots of our mornings with Rowan.

We're still here!

So, um, yeah....there's been a bit of a delay since my last post. No real excuses, except normal, busy life stuff.

So here's a brief catch-up on Rowan's latest happenings at 13 1/2 months:

• Walks sometimes, crawls sometimes. Still working on walking 100% of the time
• Moved up to the 1 year old group at his "school," which was a difficult adjustment but seems to be doing better now.
• Still no real words, just makes a bunch of noises and sounds. Although I swear he says "I got it!" and bathtub.
• Still gets up at an ungodly hour of 6am. If he sleeps to 6:30am, we're ecstatic.
• Loves petting and playing with the dogs but we're still working on being gentle.
• Eats great most of time, which is a nice change. In fact, at the last parent-teacher meeting at school a few weeks ago, they said he was one of the best eaters in his class. Go figure.
• Loves chicken, turkey, cheese, eggs, yogurt, broccoli, cauliflower, green beans, sausage, cheerios, goldfish, french fries, milk, mashed potatoes, melon, bananas and any kind of bread or crackers. Not crazy about carrots or beef.
• Favorite toys include anything he can push or ride on, trucks, balls, blocks and anything that he can throw or make noise with. He also like looking at books with pictures of animals. He has started getting books down and looking at the pictures.

That's all I can think of right now. Now that I'm back in the swing of things I promise to post on a regular basis.