Already October

I can't believe it's October already and Bud will be 13 months old in a few days! We went to the apple orchard again this year and Uncle Zach, Aunt Nicole and Colin joined us. The boys had fun playing with the apples and we got their picture on a huge pumpkin. We look forward to picking out pumpkins at a patch in the next few weeks. As of now Bud is going to be a cow for Halloween. Grandma accidentally grabbed the cow costume and not the dalmation, but Bud makes a really cute bull calf so we might just keep it!

We've been counting the number of words he knows and the number is around 20. Most of the words he pronounces pretty accurately, except diaper is sometimes di di and bottle is ba ba. He can even say Cheerio! He's also very good at sharing things with us, but almost always expects us to give the item back :) And about once a day he stands unassisted but hasn't taken any steps, yet.

He has been playing with cousin Colin a lot lately and they do well together. Bud occasionally runs Colin over, but is getting better at just patting his head instead of hitting. Colin is crawling and pulling himself up now so he'll follow Bud around; it's so cute. Zach and Nicole babysat Bud the other night and the boys just played independently.

We are finally joining a church! If it all works out we will have Bud baptized around Christmas when our families will (hopefully) be in the Midwest.

Bud is also starting to have some separation anxiety. Monday when I left for work he was sobbing and crying out "bye!" which actually sounds like die, so it was kind of a dramatic scene. And when BV left him with Aunt Nicole Bud went to the door, cried a little and patted the door and said Dada. But within a few minutes he's okay.

I should get back to work now, I think that about does it for this update. Later!

KLV :D