14 months old!!!

Porter is 14 months old today! He is pretty much over his little chest cold and had a good day at school today, after a really bad day yesterday. It is crazy how much he is learning every day, and coming up with new things. Just in the last week or so he stopped going down the stairs head first, and started a much safer, turning around backwards and backing down the stairs. Don't know where he got that from because we've never shown him how to do it. He likes to get in anything (cabinets and the dryer), and loves to crawl under things. He finds it challenging to try to crawl under things that are really low, like our chairs with the rails around the legs, and our coffee table. He is saying new words all the time, with his most recent being "bubbles." He can say hotdog, hot, bite, up and down (and he points when he says it), quack, juice (but it's more like the -ce end of the word), paw paw/pa pa, ball, boo, daddy/da da and I'm sure I'm forgetting some. He doesn't say mama at all, but I have gotten him to copy the sounds mmm, mmm before. He calls me da da, if he calls me anything, but I don't think he really does that yet. He shakes his head no whenever he is doing anything he knows he is not supposed to do, lays his head and cuddles on any soft blanket he happens upon, and loves to read to himself. He doesn't walk yet, but is starting to get much better balance, so I know it won't be long. (He inherited Goodson feet from his Granddaddy and me, and just has little nubs for feet, so Jared blames that on the not walking yet---he's still a size 3 1/2.) He still loves to get a bath and now loves to brush his 9 teeth. He goes to bed a 8:00 and is up at 6:00am sharp. His routine breakfast is a nutrigrain bar and milk, and his favorite foods are chicken, hotdogs, kraft cheese singles, and fruit cups. HIs favorite thing in the world though, is his daddy. I'm like stinky garbage when he's around. He can make him laugh like nobody else, and of course, his daddy spoils him like nobody else.