The Many Faces of William

William is really fun now at fourteen months. His vocabulary is growing by the day, we are up to 25 words with one two word phrase. We decided he will have to be a good talker soon, just to keep up with the constant jibber-jabbering from his siblings! He graduated from walking to running about a month ago and now is perfecting walking backwards and discovering the joys of climbing furniture. He hasn't reached any dizzying heights yet, but I am sure that will come soon enough. He is our first child to discover how to go DOWN stairs all by himself. We had to teach Nick and Ellie not to go head first/face first downstairs when they were toddlers, but William figured that out all by himself. Which is sort of a relief for me. He is fascinated with how things work, particularly anything electronic. But also enjoys slamming doors, defeating child safety locks, throwing (any) object, and generally following the big kids around like a puppy. He thinks they are too cool, and so are their dangerous toys!!

Health wise he hasn't had the best month. Gastroenteritis followed by about ten days of toddler diarrhea, followed swiftly by Croup. He is about a week out from the Croup now and still coughing, but feeling much better today thankfully! He is supposed to be concentrating on gaining weight (yeah, right) but all of these viruses are not helping! Ugh!