How are the boys?

On Jan 14th a friend with a one-year old boy asked me and another friend, a mom of an infant boy: how are the boys? This is what I wrote in response:

My milestones are: with 4 teeth (2 on the bottom and 2 on the top), we've all gotten bitten once or twice -- it hurt.

In terms of talking, we're in the mamamammamammama land -- all day long. I don't think he means me, it's just a noise he makes.

He's pulling himself up onto everything. The bathtub pulling has evolved into checking out the faucet and sticking his fingers inside it (gross).

But even more gross are his toy selections:

The three toys he's crazy about are: the vacuum cleaner (Mariposa, the dog, is petrified -- we just leave the vacuum cleaner out in the middle of the room now, why bother puttting it away), Mariposa's rubber chicken which is missing its butt and a leg, and another orange toy of Mariposa's.

Yes, he seems to prefer Mariposa's toys to his own.