The Tanner Blogs: Christmas Fun!!!

We had a great trip to Schoharie for Christmas. We were there 4 days and it flew by. We spent lots of time with family - Tanner was in his glory. He is at his best in groups - the more the merrier (sound like anyone we know - dada?) The first night he tried to get up at midnight for the day. He had only been in bed 3 1/2 hours but apparently he thought that was enough to recharge. He screamed for almost 2 hours that night. The next 3 nights he slept great. Didn't get up at all except for the occasional binky hunt. Over the weekend Tanner said "Balloon" and "Poop" (Balloon sounds more like "Blalooo"). At one point he looked up at me and said "poop" very matter of factly and continued playing. I sniffed his bum and sure enough! He was telling me all about it. Despite his awareness, he still didn't want to get changed! He ran away from me, as usual. And as usual, the diaper change looked something akin to wrestling an alligator. I guess he wanted me to know that he knew he had pooped, but would rather I just left it there! This kid goes a million miles an hour, sun up to sun down. Most of the time "He's wound like an 8 day clock" as PopPop would say...Lately he loves to spin round and round until he falls down. Then he'll try get up...sidestep and crash...laughing hysterically all the while. You can't help but laugh along. He managed to break a statue with his head at gramma va's house, doing just that. He wasn't hurt, thankfully. Take a look at the following picture and count "one one thousand two one thousand..." that's exactly how long he was in this position...