Honeybees: Burl Is 11 Months!!!!

Burl is 11 months old - I can't believe it! He's wonderful. We love him sooooo much! He's hilarious and super social. He says "doh" a lot. It may mean "that" or him/her. He ate his first chocolate last night - a hershey's kiss. He loved it! So we know his taste buds work - I was beginning to wonder, since he refuses ice cream. Burl ate his 2nd chocolate today - 2 m&m's. Burl loved them too. Also he likes buns, seaweed crackers, cheddar cheese and cream cheese. He's still not crazy about apples - no matter how we fix 'em and he seems to like the taste, but not the texture, of bananas.

Burl laughs and chatters a lot. He's very lovey and burrows his head into my or Ryan's chest when he's feeling shy. The 4 teeth he had been working on are all through the gums but have a ways to go before most folks can see them. That makes 8 teeth - and I think I saw a couple impending.

Ivo Overheard:

"quack-quack tape" for what he thinks is called "duck tape." He made this up all by himself!

"But WHY?" in response to almost anything; whether he knows why or not, whether "why" is an appropriate question or not... This why is a nice complement to his previous, though slightly less employed "I want/need to beCAUSE..." often followed by "...I want to" or ..."I like it."

"dis a good dinner, mama/papa/grammie."

"Take the high speed rail a (to) Taipei 101, buy batteries for my flashlight."

We're in Taipei. Burl is finally sleeping - He neapped only 30 minutes, cumulatively today and has run around for hours yelling at the top of his voice. This is not a figurative remark - he runs! He does not crawl anymore. He walks. He falls. Gail calls him a "high-stepper!" The boys are having a great time and all we've done is get to the hotel! Shuttle bus to HSR to MRT then walked to hotel - quite a journey. The HSR from Taichung to Taipei only took an hour - we were going 350km/hour!