One year old with lots of clapping

Well, N just turned one. Hard to believe that a year has already gone by. I was looking at him yesterday, and suddenly he didn't look like a baby anymore, but like a little boy.

N was clapping before... just the odd random clap. On Sunday we were watching the end of a game show and the audience started clapping. N started clapping right along, and now there's no stopping him. He sits on the bed and claps and chatters away when he should be sleeping.

Played his first game of hide and seek today as well. He was at my sister's place and her 2 youngest would hide (easy places like under the table) and N would find them. He had a blast.

First Steps!

And we missed them. Here I thought N's first steps would be at the daycare. Ends up they were a week before he even starts there.

Last night, R and I went out for dinner and my sister and her family were babysitting. N's cousin Olivia was playing with him and he took 2 or 3 steps. She thought he'd already done it, so she just mentioned it in passing. Of course, we tried to get him to do it again... no way.

Chatterbox

N is one chatty little boy. Good French boy too... he talks away, waving his hands about, just like his mom.

Looks like he has 2 new words. "Again" which he says every time we finish a book, and "truck" when we're reading his favorite truck book (which we read "again" and "again"). He also likes his most recent kindermusik book. The refrain on each page is "Boom pa pa, Boom pa pa, Tango Cha Cha. 1-2-3 Waltz with me Boom pa pa pa". When we get to that point, he shouts out "Pa Pa!", usually with lots of spitting.

Climbing and saying Hooray!

N has been climbing up a lot (up stairs, onto the couch, onto boxes etc) but just figured out how to climb off the bed! Of course, he now thinks this is the most fun ever, and when I'm trying to get him to sleep, I'm constantly pulling him away from the edge of the bed. If not, he'd be off it and down the hallway.

He's still not big on clapping his hands, but when we sing "If you're happy and you know it shout Hooray!" he'll lift his hands up in the air and giggles.