Chase at 13 months!

We've run out of month stickers, and clearly this is very late, but I'm going to continue to update on Chase's development on a monthly basis  and post monthly pictures. Consider this his online baby book.

At 13 months, Chase is:

A pretty good walker! He's not walking exclusively yet, but he can walk pretty well. He's learning how to navigate his forward momentum and distractions to stay steady on his feet.

Saying lots of words: Yeah, bird or birdie, book, ball, duck, dog, hat, head, hop, dada, and baba. They are at varying levels of enunciation (you can usually use context clues to figure out if it's a bird or a book or a ball that he wants), but he's really trying to communicate. "Yeah" is probably the most hilarious- he responds to every question with "yeah!" so we'll ask if he's pooped and he'll say "yeah yeah" and low and behold, no poop.  It's better than him saying "no no!"

Eating pretty much anything we eat-- and doing much better with his eating. His favorite foods are macaroni and cheese, cheese, peas, and any leftover meat that we have (chicken, ground beef from burgers or tacos, etc). He's been loving yogurt lately too and will put down an entire yogurt during his afternoon snack. 

Funny: he does stuff to make us laugh, like making a silly face or doing something funny with his toys/books or running towards something we don't want him to go to so we have to catch him. His favorite thing to do is to jump on Mueller's bed, which is a big fluffy dog bed. As you can imagine, it's covered in dog hair and Chase picks up a lot of it on his clothes and his face and in his mouth when he dives into it. So we have to catch him before he does it, which inevitably make him (and us) giggle and try it again.

Tough to capture on camera-- he doesn't sit still!