At 16 months, Wes is still adorable and mostly cheerful and now happily mobile, but the poor little guy is getting a little frustrated at how hard it is for him to communicate. There is a lot of squawking going on--I have been saying it for a while now, but I'll say it again: Wes is definitely our loudest child (and that's saying quite a lot). He loves to babble and yell and sing and squawk and jabber and mimic and scream! That scream! If we all make it out of his childhood without some form of partial hearing loss it will be a miracle.
Wesley is a lot more confident walking around now! While walking his hands have gradually gone from monkey-state above his head to kind of around his face to kind of out wide and are now pretty much down at his sides. Sometimes if he gets moving really fast or is careening around a corner he will throw them up for balance again, but for the most part he is pretty solid. He loves going outside and wearing his shoes and will bring them over so you can help to put them on if he ever hears the word.
Wes is also our biggest, most bottomless-pit eater! He likes to have his first and second breakfasts, lunch, after-nap snack, dinner, and any other tastes you offer him throughout the day. He especially loves food on other people's plates and gets very excited when he successfully begs some of it off of you. He's also a big fan of food that he can get himself! And will make a beeline for the garden to help himself to whatever is ripe off the vine or will bring us bags of popcorn or crackers from the pantry.
All of this makes for one cute little baby, but Wesser's dance moves take the cake. He can move his hips back and forth and up and down and around in ways that put Elvis to shame. His favorite song is I.O.I.O. by the Beegees, and he can get down when it comes on. Almost like his little baby body can't contain his little soul. The bits we've caught on film will make for some great wedding video material later on in life.
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