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Holden is now 18 months old.  A year and a half!  Where is my life going?!  He’s doing all kinds of big boy things now (tear).  Although I think the most amazing thing is hearing him start to talk more and more.  It’s so crazy when a new word just pops out of nowhere.   The best one has been when he stands up in chairs, Jay always tell him to “sitdown” in a very firm voice.  So last night, Holden looked back at him and told him to “sitdown” with the same tone and everything.  Probably not gonna be cute when he’s 3, but it’s so cute now!

To celebrate this mile marker, Jay and I took him out for a little photoshoot of his own.  I take pictures of him all the time but don’t take him out for an actual “shoot” often enough.  I’m going to do this more often.  I know I’ll hate myself in 10 years if I don’t.  I’m sure it will get easier as he gets older, but right now, he wants to do anything but stand still for the camera for 2 seconds (that’s all I need)!  Anyways, after a few cute shots, Jay and I were exhausted from chasing him around and just about to give-up when the thought occured to me that he likes to play the jumping game.  You know, when you count to 3 and then jump? Duh….don’t you play this?  Holden taught himself to jump a few weeks ago and thinks it the most incredible thing ever.   I thought it was worth a try. And guess what?!  It worked!  We finally got him to look at us while we snapped away!  Check out my little cutie….

We took Holden to the zoo for the first time this week. He had so much fun and was just in awe of everything.   He pretty much ran from animal to animal, stopping when he saw something of interest to stare with his mouth wide open for a few minutes. It was the most adorable thing ever!  His favorites were the monkeys and the penguins. Oh, and we did have to stop and chat with a parrot for quite a bit.  It’s so fun watching kids see things like this for the first time. I mean when he saw the penguins, he was so excited, he started clapping, yelling “yay”, and looking at everyone in the room and pointing to the penguins to make sure they saw them too!!!  I know he was wondering why everyone else wasn’t clapping too and why we were just sitting there staring. I’ll bet when you’re a kid, you think adults are just total duds who don’t appreciate anything worth getting excited about in life. When was the last time you saw something so exciting, you immediately stopped what you were doing and started clapping and expressing your excitement in front of everyone?! I’ll bet it’s been awhile. We could probably learn a lot from one year olds. Since the monkeys were his favorite, he spent the rest of the evening walking around going “eee,eee,ooo,ooo,ahhh,ahhh”. Simply adorable!

So anyways, here is the look of pure awe and wonder that we saw most of the day…that is when we weren’t watching his backside as he ran as fast as he could through the zoo!

And here’s what he was looking at when I took that picture….

When he realized that the parrot was talking to him!