13 Months and Sitting Still Isn't Gonna Happen...

Okay. So this is Momma talking to you this month.

There's too much to share and Aubrey Kate's typing skills are not up to par quite yet.

First, let me tell you that getting good pictures of Pumpkin is a team sport.

In one corner is a very mobile toddler who absolutely, positively, ain't havin' it will not sit still.

In the other corner, Chris and me. One of us with the camera and the other inches away from Pumpkin in case she is successful in her break out attempt.

You can see we barely kept her from taking a nose dive off the chair. She then changed her method and tried to slide off it. It's almost like we need a catcher's mitt.

Trying to get a video of her is also nearly impossible. She sees it and immediately makes a bee-line for it.

Ooooo...an electronic device! With buttons to push.

Last night, she finally figured out how to slide my phone open. She managed to call Chris. So if you get a random call from me and hear adorable giggling, it's Aubrey Kate. Feel free to say Hi but so far she hasn't discovered how to talk on the phone. Just giggle when it lights up.

Oh the giggling! She has to be the easiest baby ever to make laugh. Yesterday at church, one of the other teacher's daughter was playing with her. Maggie was wearing white pants and was a little concerned about AK's tendency to swing her applesauce all over the place. When AK would swing it in her direction, Maggie would jump six feet in the air.

My kid loved it.

One person from the class next door came over to find out who was making the adorable giggles. They thought it might have been a Tickle Me Elmo. Maggie's dad said "AK giggles with her whole body!'

True dat.

Now you might be asking why Pumpkin was eating applesauce before we dropped her off at the nursery.

The simple answer is: My kid is starving.

No lie, she is inhaling food at an alarming rate. Last week, she ate an entire container of blueberries in two days.

She will eat pretty much anything. We added some serious points to our campaign for Parents of the Year yesterday. She got to eat french fries and some of Daddy's Totino's Pizza.

And she loved them.

Fruit, veggies, cereal, juice, cheese...she loves them all.

Except milk. Will not drink milk. Will. Not.

Any ideas on how we can make that happen?

But what she will drink in large amounts is bath water.

Yeah. I'll wait for you to re-read that to make sure that's what I said.

The cup is as big as her face so when she finishes almost drowning herself by drinking the water, she has this fabulous red ring around her face. I have tried giving her regular water out of a sippy cup but nope. She's having none of that.

Go ahead and get that Parents of the Year trophy engraved with our names.

As far as how big she's gotten, I have not a clue. We haven't weighed her.

But I will tell you, for the most part, she's wearing 9 months. Depending on the brand, of course. She has grown out of some of her pants. Because they're too short. But since it's warm weather, not all that concerned about pants.

She hates wearing shoes but I did get her some new tennis shoes and sandals. She's a size 3 but a narrow 3. Why they make shoes so wide for babies, I will never understand. I'm having visions of selling these to the consignment shop in mint condition.

Other than that, she's simply amazing.

Really. I'm sure most parents feel this way about their kids. There is nothing better than seeing her walking towards me with this big grin on her face. I worry once she goes to school, she'll experience a shock when she doesn't get a kiss every other minute. I pick her up, kiss. I read her a book, kiss. She laughs at my roaring lion impression, kiss. She finishes her yogurt, kiss. All day. Kiss. Kiss. Kiss.

Can you blame me?