Ya Gotta Love Sleepless Nights :)

Ok so Tucker has been sleeping thru the night very consistently and good since he was about..7ish months old. Which is AMAZING. Then my question is.......WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THAT!?!?
The last 4 nights he has woken up 2 times a night and just wanted to talk to me!
Even as an infant, at nights, he would wake up, drink a bottle and go straight back to sleep! Once he started baby foods at 6 months, even those got rare and by 8 months, he didn't wake up at night!!
So why is he starting this now!? He isn't teething (teeth numbers 13 and 14 came thru this past week) and when he wakes up, he isn't fussy. He just wants to sit and cuddle with mommy and talk to me. He does NOT want to lay in our bed either..if I take him to lay down in the big bed, he promptly starts pummeling daddy in the face!
I'm not complaining..I LOVE it when he wants to cuddle and talk to and love on me. But I admit that the day time is a better time to do that for me :-)

In other news..when I say where is mommy's nose? He gently touches my nose. Where is daddy's nose? He hits Zeke in the nose. Where is Tucker's/your nose? He gently touches his nose. Its adorable. He can also do belly, toes, and teeth.

And..ever since he used a fork for the first time all by himself last week...he refuses to even begin a meal without the proper utensils. That also means..unless he is starving, no food touches his hands. He feels like he MUST pick everything up using only a fork :)

And like I said before, he inherited his mommy's OCD clean gene. No mega blocks can remain attached..he refuses to put them into the wagon/firetruck without taking EVERY one apart. If he drops even the tiniest crumb or sees anyone else drop one, he HAS to pick it up. Everytime we come back from the park or from a walk, my pockets are normally full of small wrappers and such because he can't stand litter. He is ALWAYS wiping off the table and sweeping the floor. And his toys are almost always put away. He refuses to get out of the bathtub until he has returned all his bathtoys into the bag we keep them in.
Tucker also REALLY REALLY LOVES books. I must read 30 books a day. Well 10 different books but several of them repeatedly each day. (Gramma..we need more books!!) Daddy took Tucker to Barnes and Noble last weekend and told Tucker that he could pick out a book. OF COURSE Tucker HAD to choose a CAR book! But as you can tell in the picture of him reading it in his carseat, he was very excited about it! And so surprised that all the cars are 3-D. Needless to say, I have read this book 50 times since he got it last weekend.

2 more things..BABY DUCKS AND GEESE! My boy LOVES his "DUTS!" Our complex has 5 little lakes and a MILLION ducks and geese (which we HAVE to go see EVERY day :)) and now..there are BABY ducks and geese!! He LOVES it! As soon as he wakes up from his nap today, we're off to feed the babies!
And the second thing..parks are an amazing invention! Tucker LOVES the slide!!

Oh!! And we went on an amazing hike 2 weekeds ago that I didn't get a chance to post about..It was wonderful finally being somewhere not flat and concrete!!

SOOOOOOOOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL and we LOVED it :)