Dane is 22 months old

Where do I start? This kid is a pistol! Dane is a maniac these days. This kid has more energy than I know what to do with. Every day we are faced with a new bruise, scrape, bump, you name it. I swear I don't beat the kid. He is just so active and brave. He is always running and climbing outside which sometimes ends poorly.

He is finally starting to talk a lot more but we still can't make out most of what he says. He started shaking his head yes rather than the usual shaking no that he learned a while back. He is also starting to repeat what you say, at least one of the words from the sentence. I know anytime now his vocabulary is just going to explode.


Dane has two new hobbies, guns and sticks. Every minute he is outside he has a stick in his hand. He will pick up the tiniest stick all the way up to a small branch. If he is not swinging one of those around he is in a gun battle with you, anything he can pick up can be a gun. The other morning he shot me with his toast. I don't know where he learned to "shoot" because we never taught him that. I guess those sorts of things just come natural to a boy. 

relaxing with his sister

this is what face planting on the sidewalk will get you.