Calvin - 14 month update

He's picking up on so many things lately! Today everybody was outside for a few hours enjoying the beautiful weather after naps. Dave was edging the grass by the sidewalk, and Violet was picking up all the leftover clumps of grass and putting them in the yard waste bin for him. Calvin joined in. He grabbed a clump, walked over to Violet, handed her a piece so she would put in the container, and he would go back for more pieces, and hand them to her. She would say "Oh look! Calvin is helping! THANK you, Calvin!" and go right along with it. When we load the kids up in the car and open the garage door, the moment it opens up the whole garage floods with light. He consistently says "Wowww!!" when the garage door opens. He sits rear-facing in his car seat still, so he can see the door open right out of his window. He also likes to flap his arms against his body many times over and over and say "YA!" when his arms hit his body. He also loves to respond to people when they say "hi" to him. Especially Dave. He says "Haaaa!" very enthusiastically and will repeat it if Dave says hi to him again. He likes to randomly lie down on the floor and rest with his head to the side, just observing what is going on. He has also gotten a thing about putting stuff on his head and letting it fall off. He gets a kick out of watching us copy him. He seems to love music as much as his sister. As soon as he hears the alphabet song come out of the word whammer on the refrigerator, he stops what he is doing, grins from ear to ear, and starts bouncing to the beat. He hums along what he knows...its so adorable. Along with all this fun and exciting progress comes a little temper. When he's not happy, he's not happy. And nothing is going to change it. He has started to throw little tantrums. If I direct him to walk somewhere else, or tell him "no", he runs away screaming and throws himself on the ground. I try to ignore it. He gets over these little fits very quickly and is usually up and running off to do something else with in a matter of moments, but its starting. His worst behavior is always when he's tired or hungry, which is easily remedied. He's an excellent sleeper who always takes a nice 2 1/2 or 3 hour nap in the afternoon and goes to bed between 7:15-7:30 and sleeps in til around 8 am. Otherwise, he's a VERY happy little kid who loves to climb stairs and interact with his big sister in a new way every day. His favorite little thing to do (and I think he KNOWS it annoys me) is to go up into our bathroom and take my glasses case out of the drawer, throw the glasses on the ground, and run around with the case. He likes to open and close it repeatedly and carry this little black case around the house with him.