14 Months and Counting

My little Coco Bear is approaching the 15 month mark here shortly -- which is really hard to believe.  Last year at this time he was taking bottles over 3-4 hours and sleeping like 4 times a day.  He is growing so fast and is seriously the one of the most funny kids I know!

His current milestones include:

• Not only is he a walker - he's a runner and is getting quite good at it.  Maybe we'll be running together this summer :)
• He's a shark.  And I'm not kidding about this one.  The kid has 14 teeth and is currently sprouting #15 and 16.  Don't get your fingers near his mouth because he doesn't let go.  Trust me.  I learned the hard way tonight. 
• He wears size 18 month clothes comfortably but some 24 month because of his long torso.
• Boy is the kid a blabber mouth!  He constantly mumbles in his cute little voice and carries on the world's best conversations with me.  Cohen's favorite words are Mama, Dada, Baba, Sit and Stop.  We've started to watch our mouths around him lately because when he first was saying sit, it definitely sounded a little more graphic if you get my drift...

  Have I mentioned that Cohen is 100% ALL BOY?  Dear Lord, how karma has turned around on me!  This child is constantly getting into everything - my jewelery box, the fireplace and most recently, the toilet.  I had to lunge Matrix style to close the lid the other day before Monkey ended up in there - as the toilet was flushing.  This child is like an Energizer Bunny.  But when he is tired, the world must look out -- can we say crankysaurus?  What's funny is now he tells you to "Stop!" if you do something he doesn't like.  For example, I was sitting on the floor and was in the little Prince's way.  So, he hits my back and looks at me and says, "Stop!"  Well, unfortunately we don't hit our mothers, so I lightly slap his hand and say, "Cohen, no hit."  He looks at dad with this pathetic little look and does the world's most girly fake cry as he's holding his hand - and of course Kurtis and I lose it with laughter.  1 point for Cohen - 0 points for the disciplinarians. Oooo, we're going to have to work a little bit in that area...
  I love watching him grow up and seeing the new things he learns.  His sitter taught him how to blow his nose so every Kleenex, napkin or piece of paper he finds, he has to blow his nose in it.  Cohen is also a dancing machine - he twirls, moves his hands, breaks it down low -- I tell you, this kid is a comedian.  But motherhood is even better than I have imagined it to be and even though it is the hardest job I've ever had (besides waitressing - be kind to your servers, please) I honestly can say that I would not trade a single thing in my life for these last 15 months.  Okay, I would trade the time where my dog ate all of my Halloween candy out of my teacher bag or a month ago when Kurtis and I came down with the stomach flu simultaneously (and you know how men are big ol' babies when they are sick, even though I threw up WAY more than him...) but this time with Cohen is so precious and has been nothing short of amazing!

Here's Cohen gettin' low...

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