Grayson at 14 months

I'm technically a few days late with this post, so you'll have to forgive me.

It's difficult to sum Grayson up these days. He's quite the busy bee, walking and talking non-stop. It seems like his brain is working overtime and he's mastering new skills or figuring out new ways to push the boundaries every day.

For example, he's always been infatuated with the wall of built-in cabinets in our living room, but has learned new ways to get into them. All of the cabinet doors are child-proofed except for the one where we store his toys. He's learned that his little arm can still fit in the child-proofed cabinets and find mischief. He particularly likes the cabinet that holds the stereo.

By squeezing his arm into the cracked cabinet door, Gray manages to push buttons on the stereo, making it light up, change CDs and play music. So much for child proofing.

For all his mischievous ways, I will say that he is pretty good about minding when you tell him no. Usually this is in reference to touching a breakable object or plugged-in cord. Most times he'll stop doing whatever you want, but if he's tired he'll throw his body on the ground, get red-faced and sob. This is the point where Michael and I walk away and as soon as we're gone he gets up and acts normal again.

Despite the occasional pre-terrible twos drama, Grayson is overall a very cheerful kiddo. He loves making objects into phones, frequently holding the TV remote, blocks and even his hand up to his ear to "talk." Of course, when we hold the real phone up to have him talk to one of his grandparents he immediately goes mute.

At school he's become quite the soother and has frequently been seen patting crying babies or his BFF Baxter after a tantrum. His teachers tell us that he'll go over to Baxter or any of the other kids and squat or lay down next to them and pat them when they are upset. So sweet. A definite improvement over biting them.

I don't know his height and weight stats since we won't go back to the doctor until next month, but I'd say he's still right around 22-23 lbs. Even though he's getting longer, Grayson keeps thinning out from all the mobility and one of these days I'm determined to plant a pedometer on him and see how far he walks. It has to be a staggering amount.