My baby is 18 months old!!! He is busy, fun, active, loud, and loves to mimic!
He weighs 22 lbs. 14 oz. – 30th percentile
He is 32.5 in. tall – 50th percentile
That would explain why I can’t find pants that fit. They are either too short, or too big around the waist so he is frequently sporting the awesome safety pin look.
He is talking a lot these days and will mimic pretty much anything we ask him to say. Some of the words that he pronounces cute are:
Apple – “a-po”
Cheese – “sheeez”
Juice – “yuice”
Hello – “heh-ro”
Adam – “a-duh”
Abby – "ah….beeee”
Binky – “deedee”
Puppy/Dog Dog – “dah dah” (I tried calling his dog lovey Puppy to distinguish it from Abby’s Doggie/Dog Dog, but he calls it “dah dah” anyway)
He said Dada for a long time and just in the past month or so calls me Mama!
He also knows a bunch of signs. Off the top of my head:
milk, all done, cracker, apple, cheese, more, sleep, bath time, diaper change, drink, eat, please, wind, train, (speaking of train, every time he hears a train horn, he gasps and stands still and then signs and says “tay” and then keeps making little gasping noises while raising his eyebrows).
He always has the most awesome bed head! As soon as I lay him down in his crib, he crawls over to the same corner, smashes his head up into it, and takes the stink-bug position.
This is how he folds his arms for prayers. About half the time he’ll say, “a-meh” at the end.
He loves to read books! Before naptime and bedtime, he either chooses a book himself from his book basket, or he wants me to go through them and he shakes his head and says “noooo” to each one until I get to whatever book he wants and then he just smiles and points. His favorites at the moment are “Moo Baa La La La”, “Mommy’s Best Kisses”, “You and Me Baby”, and any of our lift the flap Shapes, Colors, Sizes, or Numbers books.
During school time, he is either playing on his own, or sitting on my lap. On this day, I left the room, (probably to grab the camera to take a picture of whatever the big kids were doing) and came back to this. He wants to be big so badly!
I really need to make sure to take time to play with him. Poor 3rd child in a homeschool family! I feel very guilty when it comes to my lack of time engaging 1-on-1 with him. He was so thrilled when I sat down during school to play with him!
Another example of wanting to be big! I laughed so hard when I found him with his own laptop, next to the kids playing the iPad and Xoom.
He’s starting to get into our “Baby Signing Time” DVDs. His attention only lasts about 5 minutes and then he plays and walks around while semi-watching. When the theme song comes on he squeals and runs to sit on the couch!
I’m head over heels for this boy!
