Teig 14 months

Teig is into everything!  If he is not drinking with a big gulp straw out of the toilet he is climbing in the cabinet behind the trash can or making a break out the front door and into the street.  He puts everything in his mouth and is a total scavenger.  He is always looking for something to eat.  I saw his make a funny face one day and then watched him spit out a living scarab beetle.  I'm on vigilant alert at all times. He makes the sound of a fish and cow and horse and duck and he growls.  He can do the baby sign for drink, although he puts his finger up his nose instead of his thumb at his mouth to indicate drink.  It cracks me up!  He does the sign for diaper change and more and can tell us what he wants pretty well pretty much all the time.  He is great at exploring.  He loves to be outside and loves to get dirty.  He is not in the least bit intimidated by Tor.  He plays by him all the time even though Tor would smother him if he sat on him.  His favorite things are balls, hands down.  He always has a stick or a ball in his hand.  He initiates games of catch with everyone willing.  He giggles when people throw and catch successfully.  His favorite is still baseball.  On Friday we ate a potluck dinner at the church with friends and Teig played with all the other kids and balls in the gym.  Today at church Teig went straight to the doors of the gym and pried his little fingers in the doors until I opened it for him.  He happily entered the big dark gym in search of a ball and was fine with me leaving him there as long as he had his ball.  Teig loves to eat.  His favorite foods are grapes and strawberries.  He is independent/ not a snuggler, very smart, loves to blow kisses and give me kisses on the cheek when I ask and he sings when I lay him down at night to tell me he wants me to sing him a song.  He loves his song I sing to him ("Teig, Teig, Teig, Teigalicious..") which ends in a kiss.  He sings "Da Da DA Da Da ..(kiss!)"  It's so cute!