18 Months

To my sweet one and a half year old...

You are a joy! You are fun and silly and wild and crazy!

The newest thing you have discovered in the last month is that you can climb! You love to climb on our chairs and even get up onto the dining room table. If you can't reach something, you will figure out how to reach it by putting things at your feet that you can climb on top of to get you higher. You like to get up onto the dining room chair and then climb up on the railing on the back of the chair to get you even higher. I took a picture of it on my phone but I need to get a picture of it for the blog. You might have a career as an acrobat.

Here are a few little facts about you at 18 months...

You weigh around 28 pounds (your 18 month appointment is tomorrow so then we'll know for sure), you have at least 16 teeth with at least one more about to come through, you wear size four diapers, size four or five shoes, and mostly 18-24 month clothes, you love to eat avocado, black beans, yogurt, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, oranges, blueberries, whole wheat waffles, bananas, mac and cheese, anything with spaghetti sauce and pasta, and most fruits, you sleep from 8 or 8:30 every night to 8 or 8:30 every morning (yes, 12 hours most nights!!!), and you take two hour naps every afternoon.

You are an independent little man but you also love to be with us and even hold our hand all the time. If we are walking out the front door, you always hold your hand up to grab ours. Your loves are still the same...garbage trucks, all animals, your blankie, semi trucks, ambulances, your daddy, Chuggington, and your newest love is your Giant's hat we bought you at the Giants game last month.

We introduced "time out" to you for the first time this past week. There are a couple things you kept doing that we continued to tell you "no." But, you get your stubborness from your mama and you were determined not to stop. So we started putting you on your rocking chair in your room and closing the door. You HATE it! You just sit in your chair and cry until I come back. Since you are one, I only leave you for one minute. I think it's so funny that you hate being there but yet you never try to get out of the chair. We did time out two times for pushing buttons on our cable box and you have not touched it in days! I think it might have worked! You are a smart little boy!

You are a good boy Carter and we are so proud of who you are! We love you so much!