Closer to 2 than 1! (19 months)

Alright - I'm behind but here it is!  Maybe I'll get around to the next one in just a couple weeks.  Ha ha.  Heeeee...


...loves to play race - even says "do" (go) when he's ready (as in, standing against the front door or back door.  But doesn't have a specific end point in mind.  Just runs until he feels like go back to the starting point.  Sometimes he'll run to me and give me hugs, but most times he just runs to the middle of the house then turns back around.  


...Wants to feed people... or dogs...   he's been doing this for a while now since back in October (it's now February) he was taking food from daddy's plate at Zoes birthday party and feeding it to Zoes dog.  Ha ha.  


...Will hold up pretend food, or anything he wants to be food, and say mumumum so you can pretend to eat it.


...Moves his cars into lines, circling each other, and wants to race them.  He sorta tries to say "vroom vroom" but it just sounds like mumbling at this point. 


...Eats cereal with a spoon... eat most meals with silver ware.  :-)  Well, not the whole meal but he some of the meal.


...Drinks out of cups.  For a while he was refusing sippy cups but lately he switches back and forth.  He does however like to dump out whatever is in the cup or put things in it (like his meal!) so once that happens he automatically gets a sippy.  One day he'll learn. But he does remarkably well drinking out of a cup - doesn't usually spill while drinking - only later when he dumps it all out!


...Will wipe up his messes (crayon/paint messes) but only for a moment.  He's not real concerned with it.


...Says "bye" anytime he zooms his car away, if he walks away with his stroller, rides away on his dinosaur... all within a few feet of where he started but he still says bye.


...Loves Dora and Bubble Guppies.  When he sees their picture up on the TV he goes straight for it and Says "Rara" or "Bubble"


...Loves waffles for breakfast.  Or maybe it's just the syrup he loves.


...He points to himself when I say "me" and is starting to say mine, not often but it does happen.


...Loves Jackson.  When he sees him he laughs and tries to play with him.  Jax is a couple months younger so he's not quite into playing with other people yet but they do laugh at each other and give each other hugs and kisses.  It's cute.


...Learned how to make fish faces.  But I probably should work on it some more b/c he seems to have forgotten momentarily.


... says "no" when he means yes so it ends up being "no, esss"  :-)



... dumps out his drinks or puts food/toys in the cups.  SO annoying!  Also dumps out food or drops things/food when he's done with it.  


...Says "thank you" in sign language - sorta.  It's supposed to be touching his mouth and then pulling his hand down, but, he just touches his hand to his mouth and says "do do" just like Kayla did.  But, whatever works.


His vocabulary now includes:
Birds
Uck (truck or duck)
Nose
Blue (every color is boooo)
Poon
Bubble
Puppy
Bee
Wa wa for waffles or water
Elp for help.
Mo = more
Animal sounds - Boo (means moo), ba, oink/snort (he says oink or he tries to snort), ruff, aaaaay (neigh), and buzz.
Purple


If the word starts with a B or P he's pretty good about being able to repeat it.  If it starts with almost anything else we usually end up with just the last half of the word.  


I just had him weighed today and he is 31 inches tall (10th percentile) and weighs 23.8lbs (25th percentile).


He's understands exactly what he's not supposed to be doing, and does it anyway.  :-)  Though he is getting better about understanding "no" and generally stopping.  He's my wandering little boy.... very much a boy!!!  The cutest one ever!