16 months old!

Our little boy is 16 months old today! Since learning to really walk a couple of weeks ago, things have really changed around the house. We have to watch him 100% of the time. He has learned how to climb out of our bed and go tearing around the house in his pajamas before we even wake up. He can open almost anything in the house---doors, drawers, cupboards, his sippy cup--but thankfully not his diaper. He's very funny and is always coming up with new jokes to play on us. The latest is to take a mouthful of water and shoot it out in a nice long stream. That's what happened in the picture above.

Yesterday we were meeting in a park with a group called "Parents for Peace and Justice." The parent who was on childcare duty took Amado and the other toddlers to a playground about 100 yards from where we were talking. We watched from afar as she took him on his first slide and swung him in his first swing. He looked so little sitting in that swing. It made me realize that the day is coming very soon when Amado will start to have a lot of experiences all on his own.

Babies grow up much too quickly.