Wulf Family: October 2009

Hey there, friends!! Well, I am now 13 months old and all the hoopla about turning the big O-N-E has sort of gone away. Now, I am a toddler and sort of left on my own to find my way. Just kidding.......I still recieve directions constantly from all the big people around me. Those directions can be summed up in one really short word......NO. But Mommy and Daddy are really proud of me because I am starting to following instructions. They can tell me to go look for my milk or my pa-pa(pacifier) and I know just what they are telling me to do and I do it. I don't think they are that impressed that I understand what they are telling me.......I think they are more impressed by the fact that I actually FOLLOW the instructions. I am also saying few of my favorite words like mama, dada, pa-pa, and nana (short for banana). Bananas make me really happy......I love them and to be honest, I am sort of tired of Mommy cutting them into bite sized pieces. I can handle the whole banana, for crying out loud!!! Anyway, maybe she will get the picture if I just keep grabbing it away and shoving it in my mouth. And, I also know the word "go." As soon as I hear go, I am headed to the door saying, "go, go, go!" I repeat lots of words. Recently nose and diaper have been my faves. I can even find my nose. I have even started helping Mommy change my diaper. I will start to pull it off if the contents are too uncomfortable. Otherwise, as soon as she lays me down and unfastens it, I grab it and pull it so she can put the clean one on me. She thought that was really sweet and smart of me until it got messy one day! I love to throw stuff in the trash. Just hand me something and say trash and off I go.......somebody has to do it!

On Saturday, Mommy and Gaga took me to Shelbyville, TX. It is a really small community just right down the road from Center. For all you city people, it would be like a suburb of Center. Anyway, one of the shops there hosted a Fall Festival. Mommy thought this would be the perfect backdrop for some cute fall pics of me. They had hay, pumpkins, mums, and the coolest John Deere tractors that I have ever seen. Mommy called them "antiques." I sat on a couple and "drove" them all over the place. After that experience, I feel sure that I want to be a tractor driver when I grow up. Mommy and Gaga did a lot of tasting of the food they had there, and I had some caramel apple which was very yummy to the taste buds! Mommy and Gaga took turns hanging outside with me while the other one went in the shop to look around. I kept trying to go in, but something about too many things me to break and Mommy to buy! I had more fun outside anyway.

Not much else is happening around here except for rain, rain, rain. I did get to finally go outside yesterday and play for long time on my slide and in my sandbox because it was so pretty. Now, today, the rain has returned so back to playing in the cabinets. Mommy got some more pics of me yesterday that she will post later. And.....coming up.......Halloween pictures! My love for bananas has inspired me to be a monkey for Halloween. Mommy is trying really hard to talk Daddy into being a banana...........I will have to get back to you on the success of that one!! Later.....

Oh, and how could I forget. Y'all might want to know the status on my baby sister.......well, all I know is that she is still coming sometime in January!