Tuesday, October 21, 2014

18 months

 Luke turned 18 months last week!  Here are some things about younger son at 18 months...
*He loves to eat!  He's picky with some vegetables and he doesn't seem to like hamburger or anything with ground beef, but otherwise eats a lot
*Some of his favorite things are french fries, scrambled eggs, edamame, and hot dogs
*This love for eating leads to the fact that he is a big boy!  He weighed 29 pounds 4 oz and was 34 inches long at his 18 month appointment.  Both stats are in the 90% percentile.  This is a 6 pound weight gain from his 12 month appointment, and he weighs 5 pounds 4 ounces more than Jake did at 18 months!!  His doctor told us to go ahead and switch him from whole milk to 2%.  This is obviously not a child who is needing those extra fat and calories!
*He's not shy about his love of eating, and will definitely tell me when he's hungry.  He can say "sna" for snack and "waa" for water, and when I see him like this I definitely know what he wants....

*He's so silly.  He loves to smile and laugh.  Here's a silly pic of him in Jake's boots.  He put them on all by himself...
 *He really loves books, and has grown to like more books than just touch and feel and sound effect books; however, he rushes through them and I hardly ever get to finish reading a page.  He is a speed machine with page turning!  He says "ba" for book and will bring me books to read and snuggle in my lap.
*He also loves music.  His favorite song is "My Lighthouse."  He knows we can watch the video on the computer, so sometime he points to the laptop and I know exactly what he wants.  I'll ask, "Do you want My Lighthouse" and he answers, "Yeah."
*He's pretty accident prone and has fallen a lot lately.  One night before we had family pics scheduled, he tripped near our wooden children's table and his face hit the edge of the table.  He got a horrible black eye, so we cancelled those pics.  One week later, he fell walking on the sidewalk and scraped the edge of his nose and underneath his nostril.  He looked pretty rough for a while.  Here are some pics from October 13, his official 18 month and if you look closely, he can see the remnants of the black eye and also the busted nose...



 *He loves baths and showers!  He loves a bath anytime, either alone or with Jake.  Just recently, Kevin started doing "3 boy showers" sometimes and Luke LOVES it.  Jake did not like showers at this age, so I was a little surprised.  He also loves running around the house in his hooded towel after his bath.  Here's the little monkey after a bath...
*His vocabulary is really booming!  He's better at repeating words we say and there's many words he uses regularly.  He doesn't finish out the final sound on many words, though.  For example, bath is "baa" and snack is "sna."  The funniest word he says, though, is Taco.  He does not mean taco the food, but Taco, the dog.  We dogsat for Taco a couple times and he picked up his name really quickly and would say it over and over and over!

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