Little Gizmo

Oh my goodness, I am so upset - I had a huge ol' post typed up, and suddenly it's gone, seriously, gone. - Here is the shortened version... or what I remember of it:
Dayton turned 1 on July 10th. (Yes I am aware that was now like 10 days ago or something, but I've been overwhelmingly busy, but I'm here now)
Being the perfectly wonderful mom that I am, Dayton has not yet received his birthday cake to stuff his face with... but I promise that time will come and I will add pictures...

In the meantime here are some tidbits on the Little Gizmo (in no particular order):

*Tona loves to point at anything and everything! And in order to point he has to stretch his arm all the way out and then poke out his pointing finger.

*He's drumming everything - he even put a bruise beneath Oaklee's eye and added a bruise to Kamron's elbow with the drumsticks to my Rockband game... For his birthday I gave him a drum. His new drum has drum sticks attached so he cannot hurt much with them while on his wild drumming tangents...

*Stairs... the very day of his birthday, he climbed the stairs at his grandpa Row's house. Not just one or two stairs either, a whole flight!! Now he climbs on or over Everything in sight, His favorite right now is Oaklee's toddler bed. And getting down? No problem!! He just nose dives to the floor and crawls away. He also has this incredible new stunt he performs. He climbs on top of the big ol box of diapers and balances on all fours. He gets really upset if anyone tries to move him, until he's ready to get down and then he gets mighty upset if you're not trying to move him.

*He has some loud mouth scream-ish blabbering that he thinks is just him jumping in on the conversations around here... Hilarious!!

*Two teeth. That's it. How does he chew his food? No idea, but somehow the little piglet finds a way. (And he eats everything in sight. I think he may eat more than Oaklee these days, and I know for a fact he's got Kyndi beat)

*Dancing maniac. Simply say the words "Dance baby" and he'll be groovin to his own beat. Head banging, full body maneuvers, hands spastically flying through the air.. and at times he'll shake his head side to side as quickly as possible - its a show you gotta see! The other day we even caught him jamming out to a car alarm.

*Stands unassisted in the middle of the room (or wherever he desires) He has no intentions of moving anywhere from that point, but he seems to rather enjoy standing.

*One thing to avoid with Little Dude around - do not just up and decide to lay on the floor. He will crawl as fast as possible to you and attack....

And, Here are some pictures:

Little guy spent some time in the NICU - lack of lung development - he was straining really hard to breathe. Spent a week there.

Take a gander at these ginormous feet he had/has - This is why I call him Kermit the frog, he has flippers at the ends of his legs!!

Oaklee's first time ever seeing him

At 2 months old he landed his bum back in the hospital for 3 days on account of pneumonia

My favorite face he used to pull