ONE YEAR!

We made it. Survived.  Whew!

Here's an update of what the little guys love and hate at 12 months!

• teething again, getting their 7th tooth in soonish
• love finger foods:: Jackson usually refuses all purees, Grayson eats both
• foods they love:: cheese, grapes, blackberries, oranges, applesauce
• foods they hate:: not big fans of cake or icing!, 
• toys: balls, musical bongos, activity garden
• pulling up on everything:: now they also reach down with one arm, grab balls, and bring toys up where they're standing
• cruising around
• standing on own occasionally
• throwing balls and kind of playing catch with them
• mimicking:: sticking out tongues (thanks mom!), and especially with what we say. Jackson says "e, e" after we make monkey sounds "e, e, ooh, ooh"
• understand what we say
• standing and reaching 
• they love our fireplace and for some reason licking the bricks.  weird.  but they are all about textures lately!
• favorite activities: playing with toys, chasing balls, standing, walking holding mom and dads hands, anything that plays music or lights us, especially ones you can pull up on
• discipline: for standing in the bathtub, touch trashcans, rolling over during diaper changes, 
• drink whole milk! Praise the Lord we don't have to buy 1+ cases of formula a week anymore! 
• skinny and tall:: less than 1% weight, G is in 20th% for height and J 33rd% for height.  We've got some lean boys!
• clothes:: wearing 12m, and some 9m clothes still, moved to size 3 shoes
• seriously hate their cars seats:: and we're finally switching seats since it's getting warmer out
• 2 naps a day
• sleep 11 hours at night
• Grayson::  lately been more aggressive and crawling on or biting Jackson or my shoulder, call him "snaggletooth"sometimes because his upper teeth in from left to right and so the left side is longer than the right:), independent, will push balls all over the house with or without Jackson, pickier with finger foods, loves grabbing hair
• Jackson:: clingy, pickier eater with purees, still smiles or laughs at hearing laughter, smiles a lot, also cries easily, steals toys from brother