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I recently stumbled on a picture of Matt from his first birthday and couldn’t help but notice a resemblance:
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Our little monkey is a big 1-year-old now!
Okay, so our celebrations went on and off for about a week…
The weekend before Justin’s big day, we threw him a little party for our Bellingham friends. Just a few people came, but they were important ones! Justin got a visit from his Nouno Niko (up from California) and from our friends, the Rushes. We had cupcakes and opened a gift or two – Justin played with Miss Magnolia (which very sadly, I didn’t get any pictures of), and a good time was had by all. We did the whole candle in the cake thing with Justin’s nouno (btw, nouno=godfather):
And yes, as is for all little boys, the flame was indeed the star attraction of the day.
On Sunday, our friend Brooksana and her daughter Sam came by for a visit. 
What was so funny about his opening of Brooksana and Sam’s gift was that there was a small plastic cow in the gift bag which Justin grabbed first and promptly exclaimed, “Mooooo!” Which we found very funny since we haven’t really heard him “moo” before.
Next on the birthday agenda (after the Justin-cold that left us with a clingy, green-boogered leprechaun for St. Patty’s Day), was Justin’s 1-yr doctor visit. Just how big is our boy? For the official stats, see below -
weight: 26lbs 1oz
height: 32 inches (that’s well off the chart!)
teeth: 8
words: around 20 and counting. My favorites to hear are “cracker”, “‘loon!” (meaning balloon), and his new elephant sound (he makes a high pitched “vvnn!” sound).
Saturday morning we headed for Seattle for Justin’s weekend with his grandparents. Nanna and I made a dino cake:
That evening, Matt’s mom, Rosalie; along with my family (mom, dad, sister, niece, nephew); and our friends, the Tasto’s (along with their 18-month-old, Edwin). The two littlest guys were awesome to see together, and both seemed to have a good time. Edwin, of course, had to help a little (I don’t know that Justin could have gotten through all that wrapping paper without his help!). Here are a couple of my favorite pictures:
in this last picture, Justin seemed to want a little privacy to open his gift, so he crawled under the table with his gift. It was just too funny! Edwin had to coax him out with another one of his new toys:
Then it was on to the cake! Justin, of course, had to have the head of the dino for his own. And Justin, being super into forks right now, needed his toddler fork to do the dino-damage-duty.
After about 5 minutes, the fork went bye-bye, and Justin engaged himself fully in the ultimate in dino carnage!
Some of the un-pictured highlights included singing “happy birthday” to Justin, and his utter delight in being sung to by all those people (he seemed to say, “I don’t know why you’re singing to me, but I like it!”). Also, he said a few words for the first time that weekend: “thank you” and “kitty” were the top two.
VERY LATE, I know. But with the cutting of 4, yes 4 teeth this month (for a total of 8), me getting sick AND working like a dog, it just hasn’t happened. I guess the fact that Justin won’t let me get near the computer without insisting that he push the buttons on the keyboard until one or both of us is extremely frustrated doesn’t help. Anyway, enough of my kevetching (sp?) and on to what our boy is up to this month!
I love this picture I got of Justin and his Daddy on Justin’s 11-month-birthday:
Check out those choppers! (on Justin, of course!)
We’re still not walking yet. More than anything, it seems to be a confidence thing – he’ll demand your hand for the purpose of helping him walk, but then he doesn’t really use it for balance, just security, really.
Justin’s gotten a lot out of finger-painting in making Valentines for Mommy and Nouna Stella. He didn’t even try to eat the paint! Amazing!
Speaking of art, everything is a drawing implement to Justin. I let him crawl around outside at Church a few weeks ago and caught him with a small stick “coloring” the grass. He continues to love his markers, and helps me check off things on my shopping list when we’re out (yes, he keeps the ink on the page – though, all over the page).
The other big thing Justin has been working on are his words and general communication:
Words in Justin’s Verbal Dictionary:
“momma”
“dadda/daddy”
“all-done”
“amber” and “baby – one day, I had to leave for work and I heard these two words in order and earnest as if to say, “Amber! Baby! You’re supposed to stay with the Baby!”)
Various animal sounds: goat came first, then kitty, and then the monkey sound!
“yay!” – generally with applause, and most adorably used when I open the car door to get him out of his car seat when we’ve arrived home.
“Bye-bye”
“Out” – this one took us a while to figure out. For the longest time we thought he was saying “hot”, but then figured it out when we realized he only said it when he was in his car seat, a shopping cart, or wanted to be picked up. I’ve always asked him, “do you want out?” in these situations, he’s just also now using it whenever he wants to be picked up, which makes sense.
“Nigh-night”
“Opa!” – He generally says this when he throws something, like a toy to the floor. We’ve been trying to use Greek words and -isms around Justin his whole life, looks like he’s picking at least one of them up!
I think that’s most of them – for today. Our little chatterbox really keeps us on our toes!
As for how big our little guy is, well, we haven’t had him measured since his 9-month check up, but I will say that pretty much all of his clothes are 2T now, a few freakishly large 18mos size pants fit but just barely. He’s also already at the ends of his size 5 shoes! Big boy!
On a side note: I’ve been learning to knit since Christmas and just finished my first project – a Pascha bunny hat for Justin! I’m really excited and proud of it at the moment, so bear with me -
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