Little man - 18 months

You are such a friendly little guy! You love to wave at everyone including strangers. 

Talking

Your sign language has taken off this month and the cutest new expression you do is for "I don't know" - you put both arms out and lift your shoulders with the funniest little "hmm" sound. You also motion for us to "sssh" when Dylan is sleeping or anyone is sleeping in a book. When we tell you something is hot you hold your hand to your mouth and blow in it to cool it down. Hilarious.

You are trying to say some new words this month - the best new one is "thank you". It gets clearer every day. Sometimes you even try to say "thank you dada". The number of words that you understand is astonishing to us. We ask you to get things from around the house (your milk, socks, shoes,etc) and you understand all of it. 

You also say "plane" and point to the sky when you and Daddy go outside together.

More words are coming - we often think we hear you saying something once but then you won't repeat it. Stubborn.

Play

You are obsessed with your toy phone and you carry it with you everywhere. Hmm I'm guessing you are mimicking our behavior?! So sad that we always have our iPhones. But adorable that you understand what phones are for - you pretend to push the buttons and you hold the phone up to your ear to talk.

Kisses - you blow kisses all the time. Well you hold your hand to your mouth and say "mmmm" but we haven't quite got the next part yet. 

Books - You love reading books and this month you especially like your First Words books with the pictures and the labels. You will point to each picture in a book to have us tell you what each thing is. You ask us to read the same books over and over. You still love Good Night Gorilla and Brown Bear.

Climbing- You are climbing on everything! You try to balance on books, bins, toys, and your ride on toys constantly. You want to reach up to anything that is higher.

You love to dance! We have a dance party every day. You often ask for me to turn on the music by going in your room and pointing to the iPod. 

Eating - you are getting really good at feeding yourself with a spoon and fork! Amazing. You love chicken hot dogs :) yay! Finally some good meat protein in your diet.

Sleeping - we had a few days this month where you only took one nap during the day! I thought for sure we had turned the corner but you weren't quite ready and after a few days the lack of sleep caught up with you and we are back to two naps per day. You still sleep at night from about 8-6:30. Bedtime has been a bit later since you are still taking your afternoon nap.

Bath time - you like to pour the water from your cup onto your face and pretend to "drink" the water. You often actually drink more than I would like.

We got you a potty this month just to try it out. Sometimes you like to sit on it just for fun and read a book or magazine of course!