Elliott Turns Thirteen Months Old

Dear Elliott,
Today you turn thirteen months old. You are learning more and more every day. You are becoming much more vocal. Your new favourite things to say are MEMEMEMEMEMEME, which means you are unhappy – and GOODGOODGOODGOODGOODGOOD, which means you are happy. I can’t wait until I can have actual conversations with you, it’s going to be so exciting. I just hope you aren’t paying attention when I let out the occasional SHIT or FUCK, and then go blabbing to your teacher about how mommy doesn’t give a ____. I hope you don’t have a potty mouth like your parents.

You now have two teeth on the bottom of your mouth that are finally in. Man, those teeth seem to have been the most painful for you because you cried like crazy ALL THE TIME and the only thing that made you calm down was sucking on a wet facecloth. Speaking of your teeth, have I mentioned how much you love your toothpaste? Every night when we brush your teeth, you get really excited to see us squirt some toothpaste on to your toothbrush and then when we try to actually brush your teeth you suck the toothpase right off of the brush. I must admit that your toothpaste smells like candy and it probably tastes delicious. I should try some. Maybe I will slather it on a piece of toast. Yes!

As far as your eating habits go, everything is pretty much the same. You still hate carrots and you still love your yogurt. We have also introduced red grapes, roasted potatoes and canned peas and you loved all of those. You have a love/hate relationship with broccoli and sometimes we have to sneakily make you eat it by hiding a piece in a mouthful of mashed potatoes. Ha! Tricked you!

This month was your dad’s 27th birthday and we celebrated by going out to eat at The Keg. You loved my garlic mashed potatoes and the warm bread that they give each table for free. We tried to feed you our vegetables as well but you were not having any of that nonsense. So guess what we did? HAHA! Tricked you again! You did enjoy the delicious piece of cake we had at the end of dinner, that piece of cake that went directly to my giant behind. Damn it!

Your dad and I celebrated our 2 year wedding anniversary this month by going away for the weekend. As much as we love being around you, we needed some alone time! Bow chicka wow wowwwww. It was so hard to leave you on Friday night, even though I know you were in good hands. Grandma Ruth came to spend the weekend with you and that allowed us time away. I wrote her 3 pages worth of junk pertaining to the care of you, my precious baby, and the 5 animals. She probably didn’t even read it, but it made me feel good to write it all out. In case you haven’t noticed, I’m a bit of a control freak.

You are walking all over the place now, albeit a bit on the drunk side. But you’re WALKING! It’s the cutest thing ever – seeing you toddle your way around the house. Sometimes I will put on your shoes just so I can take you outside and watch you walk down the street. CUTENESS OVERLOAD! You hardly ever crawl now, I guess things just seem more exciting when you’re walking.

I am so happy when I look at you meeting all of these awesome milestones. I am so proud to be your mommy.

Love, Mama