Brotherly love...at 14 months

We (being Mom, Whitney, Myself, Kodiak, and Cheyanna) went grocery shopping today and put the carseat with Cheyanna in it in the main part of the shopping cart and had Kodiak in the seat and the groceries in another cart. Well, Kodiak has decided that he has to keep his eye on Cheyanna at all times so as we were pushing the cart, he turned around so he could see the carseat and spent almost the entire time pulling the blanket off the carseat so he could see his sister, then putting it back, just to pull it away a few minutes later. Well, then he pulled the blanket off the handle and let it fall on her lap and reached back and grabbed the handle and started rocking the carseat with her in it. It was so sweet, I can't even begin to describe how touching it was for me. I was so worried about him being jealous or something and he has been nothing but absolutely loving towards her. If I am holding her and she cries, he'll run over to see what is wrong. She dropped her binky out of her mouth in the car on the drive home and he got my attention and showed me and wouldn't stop grunting at me until she had it safely back in her mouth. He'll pull on my mom's leg when she is holding her and make her bend down to show him and then he breaks out into fits of giggle and delight. It is absolultely amazing how well he takes to her. I have never seen a little boy so attached so soon. We have only been home a day.

Birthday Boy

Kodiak had his first birthday and it was a lot of fun. Just had the inlaws over for cake but it was fun to give Kodiak cake and ice cream and let him make a mess of himself and my kitchen.

Walking

We bought Kodiak a walker and he is cruising all over our house. Well, a couple days ago, he was holding on to my fingers and standing up, when he decided to let go. It took me a couple seconds to realize it, but he was standing all by himself. He is very determined and I doubt it will take long before he is walking.

Vanilla Wafers are best when shared

Kyle and I skipped church, I know we're bad, and took a drive up the canyon on sunday and after a while, we pulled over to the side of the road to watch nature and eat our treats and Kodiak was sitting on daddy's lap of course. We were all just enjoying ourselves (Kyle hasn't ever smiled so big), and Kyle looked over at Kodiak and said, "You are a cute little guy huh?" and that adorable little stinker of mine, looked into his daddy's eyes and smiled a huge grin, then reached up and smeared his drooled-all-over vanilla wafer across Kyle's face. It was hilarious! Kodiak is very intelligent and extremely mischievious and I believe he understands every word we say to him. I have never seen a baby so mischievious at such a young age. Gotta love him though!

Where's ma-ma

First came "gee" (hungry), then came "da-da", now is "ba-ba", but the only time "ma-ma" is spoken is when Kyle is trying to teach him to crawl and he is madder/sadder than a hornet and looks at me as if to say "save me ma-ma". I feel so loved. ha ha You'd think as much of a mama's boy as he is, he would use the term more often

Kisses

So it used to be that Kodiak would give anyone a slobbery kiss on the cheek who asked him, but over the last little while he's become very particular. For example, my mom was here the other day and Kodiak refused to give me a kiss until I turned him so my mom couldn't see him and he gave me a tentative one. When noone is around he is so generous with kisses, but especially when dad is home, he refuses. I think he is hitting that "I'm embarrassed to be seen kissing my mom" stage a little early.

Pregnancy induced bolimia

So the other day I was playing with Kodiak on the living room floor when morning sickness hit. I made it to the kitchen was all and as I started heaving into the garbage can, I hear this faint noise coming from the living room. I heaved and then coughed and then you here this "little heave and two fake coughs". Kodiak was imitating every sound I made. It sounded so much like me, I had to double check I wasn't throwing up in two rooms. I peeked in on him and he was casually playing with his toys on the floor and saying "heave, cough cough, pause, heave, cough cough." He seriously makes my day every day.

Kucky Kucky

SO I'm not as good of a mom as I should be because when I put Kodiak in his bouncer, sometimes there are several crumbs or pieces of food still on it from the day or two before. When I catch him going for them to eat them, I say (very seriously) kucky Kodiak, don't you eat that. It seems the more serious I am with him, the bigger grins he gives me and the faster he shoves them in his mouth. Well, yesterday, he put some in his mouth and offered me his hand with some still in it, as if to say, want some mom (with the most innocent grin of course). Even as I'm writing this, he is looking for crumbs....what am I gonna do with him. ha ha ha

Kodiak is a fighter

Turns out, Kodiak has pneumonia on top of RSV but was kickin its butt and so they didn't have to put him in the hospital. What a tough guy.

Poor little guy

I took Kodiak in for a well child check and it turns out he has RSV. Luckily he has a strong immune system and is tougher than nails. He's fighting it really well, but so far isn't improving...

Formula

So I took Kodiak to his 6 month checkup at the Doctor at he only weighed 12oz more than at 4 months. The doctor told me that on top of nursing him, I needed to shove as many calories in him as he will eat (he has the fastest metabolism I've ever seen), as well as add a formula supplement. So I went out and bought some formula and have been trying to give it to him via a bottle for a few days and he looks at me with the saddest face and cries and then smacks his gums together and talks to me. It is so sad to see that face. Anyway, I've been mixing it in his fruits and vegetables lately but decided that today he WAS going to take a bottle. So as soon as he woke up, I made him one and I knew he was very hungry. He started crying and fussing again and I looked him in the eye and told him he wasn't getting any nana's (bananas) until he drank it all (4oz). He looked at me almost angry-like and grasped the bottle between his little hands, shoved the nipple in his mouth and bit it as hard as he could. ha ha ha He even had the angry eyebrows. It tasted nasty again but he swallowed a couple times before he refused to take anymore. Anyway, it was hilarious. So I gave him some nana's anyway.

Kodiak