15 months and Kansas City

Wyatt is now 15 months old.  He is walking everywhere and talking all the time.  He has over 20 words (probably 30 now, I need to count) that he uses independently, some of the newest being: nigh-nigh (night night), bite, brrr (because it is cold outside), ride (sounds like "lie" - he wants to be pushed on his riding toy), light, yummy, mmm, seat, and car.  He makes vroom vroom car sounds and says "boom" when he throws a ball.    He will "read" books to himself, pointing at things and saying the words when he knows them.  In the car on our road trip I kept hearing him say "bite" (when he wasn't hungry).  He was looking at a book and pointing to a place setting of plastic kids silverware.  I may be biased, but I think he is super smart! 

We just got back from a little road trip to Kansas City, Missouri.  We were there for their coldest day so far this year!  When Wyatt and I walked a few blocks to go get breakfast Saturday morning it was 10 degrees outside.  Brr! (I think that is when he learned that word)

We had fun at the Science City there.  It is a children's museum located in Union Station there in Kansas City.

View from our hotel room balcony.

Union Station - this is where the Science City was located.

Science City - making music with Daddy.

Right before they closed checking out the ball floating in the air - anyone else know what principle explains this phenomenon :)

In Union Station - what a beautiful old building.  They still have Amtrak there.

With Daddy in Union Station.

Going "nigh-nigh" on the skywalk between Union Station and the Crown Center shopping mall.  Silly boy!

They had a tea store in the mall and this was what I came away with - yeah!  The owner who was helping us actually has a farm in China where they grow this tea, and he spends three months of the year in China on the farm and the rest of the time in the United States running his store.  There were pictures up from the tea farm and he was in several of them.  They specialize in white tea.

  Justin only had Saturday afternoon after his conference was over for us to do any fun activities, so the Science City and the Crown Center shopping mall were the only tourist things we really did.  We did eat some yummy barbeque Friday night, which was nice.  The hotel we stayed in was the Intercontinental - and it was really nice.  (What is it though about really nice hotels having no free extras like WiFi, breakfast, parking, etc.)  One of the valet men even remembered my name and would greet me each time he held open the door for me to take Wyatt out in the stroller.

Ten hours or so of travel (including stops) is a long drive for a little guy!  Wyatt did great though.  He managed to be pretty happy both trips until the last hour or so.  We were all glad to get home though, when it was all over.

We had one little adventure still to come.  Wyatt decided to take a nose dive into the bath tub at Grandma and Pawpaw's house on our way home (we stopped there to pick up our dogs).  I was filling the tub for his bath and he was leaning over to feel the water when, SPLASH, in he went.  No damage was done, but hopefully he will be a little more cautious next time.  Ever since he fell face first down the front porch steps he is very cautious with steps and waits to have someone's hand before he walks down them.  I guess there is a silver lining to nearly everything, even all the bumps and scrapes.