OK, so he was 18 months on Tuesday but I caught the plague on a work trip to Minneapolis this past weekend. Therefore, we are a few days late.
Stats:
Weight: 22 lbs 11.5 oz (25th %tile)
Length: 31 3/4" (50th %tile)
Head: 18 1/2" (50-75th %tile)
Size clothing: 18 months, 5 or 5.5 shoe
Eating:
He is a voracious eater and will try anything. His favorite foods are Chipotle tacos, pasta of any kind, freeze dried mangoes, beans straight from the can, raisins, frozen peas and corn, lentil soup from La Marsa and anything bread. He is a super healthy and great eater. He is still making a huge mess but he has gotten really good control over his spoon lately. For breakfast he usually has a green smoothie or oatmeal, lunch is either pad thai or pasta and then dinner is whatever mom makes. He only drinks water and breast milk at this point. He is still nursing right when I get home and then about 3 times after that. Knock on wood, I am SO hoping that that is preventing him from catching this terrible virus I have.
Sleep:
He started sleeping through the night at about 14 months when we moved his crib upstairs. He is at one nap from 1-3 usually and goes down between 7 and 8 and up between then, too. He has a few nights here and there where he wakes up and its hard to get him back down without lots of rocking but those are fewer and fewer and now that he has almost all of his teeth, I am sure we will be sleeping through the night soon. His top canines are almost in and so we just have the bottom ones and then the 4 2-year molars. Luckily he slept great for Trev while I was gone in Minneapolis.
Development:
My baby is hardly a baby anymore! Every day he looks and acts more like a toddler/kid. It is hard to believe how fast it goes. He can climb, jump, kick, run, roll and dance with ease. I think the biggest change is how much he understands us and how well he is getting at communicating. He can nod his head and say "mhm" or shake it and say "uh uh" which helps a lot, especially if he points to what he wants. (Or it is really hard because he freaks out for 5 minutes in Chipotle until we discover he wants his taco rolled up like dad's burrito.) He knows a few words: "neh" for nurse, "ba" for ball, can roar like a dinosaur, meow like a cat, woof like a dog and make an elephant noise, can say go, dip dip dip when he dips his food, hot hot hot when he thinks something is hot, says woooo after we say "go jack go jack go jack". Although this is all he can say, we can ask him nearly anything and he can tell us yes or no appropriately (like if he needs his diaper changed, is hungry, is tired or wants to play upstairs). He's really into doing things on his own. Going down the stairs, helping clean, flushing a toilet with toilet paper, brushing his teeth (which he hates), feeding himself, reading books, playing, etc. He has learned to cover his face from the water during a bath, loves Little Einsteins (and doing pat pat pat pat, blast off! all the time), enjoys the Snuggle Puppy book the most, is obsessed with dancing and doing a few yoga moves, has gone sledding and said "go go go go, whoaaaa!", loves peek a boo and hide and go seek, has a new obsession with playing with Leo and a string now that Sofia is up north with my grandparents and Leo comes out and about now.
He brings so much joy to our lives and I am so happy he is ours. He fills me up with so much love, I love every bit of him with all of my heart!
