19 Months

Exploring his "new playhouse" in the backyard.

Helping Daddy decorate the Christmas tree. 

Opening up his cars from Grandma and Grandpa.

• He has started to say two words together - help please, oh geez (I think that is what he is saying?), more please.
• Two words he loves to say are shoes and cookie. 
• He will bring us his socks and shoes to put on if he does not have them on his feet. 
• One night after his bath he asked for his shoes on, and we have some nice pictures of him wearing just his shoes. He was so excited and happy to have them on his feet for the 10 minutes before we got him ready for bed.
• He threw a 35 minute fit when I was making pumpkin cookies. I had given him one as a treat, and then he wanted more - and saw them on the counter.
• He hasn't been too bad with the Christmas tree, but there is one ornament that looks like a gingerbread cookie. Needless to say it had to be moved up higher on the tree because he took it off or tried to take a bite out of it several times.

Grape Picking

From September. He did a little more eating than picking ;)

Before we woke him up to change his diaper before we went to bed.

18 Months

His vocabulary has exploded this month. His new words are:

• "Moo"
• "Neigh" - which considering we have animals and I do the sounds so often it took forever for him to make one.
• Shooey
• Big Boy
• Bible - he said it when we were in Arkansas for a retreat. I was getting his Bible to read to him and he repeated me.
• I know there are more, but I haven't written them down as well as I have in the past.
• He FINALLY passed 20 lbs. We haven't decided when/if we are turning him around now or waiting until he is 2.
• He is 31.5 inches tall.

17 Months

He has started "stacking" things. Not perfectly.

He will sit at his table to eat his snack (for the most part).

He started saying Amen when we pray before our meals (and at bedtime). It sounds more like "me-me" than Amen, but he says it at the right time. He is so proud of himself.
While I was in California he started saying "nana" for banana.
He is saying night-night and snack as well.
This month I was gone for 5 days to California and 1 night to a retreat. He did great with daddy both times. I got a great welcome home for the 1 night trip. He was in shock when he saw me the first time.

Touch a Truck

Our Farmhouse Bed

We finally had a chance to stain our bed that we built Labor day weekend. Still have the polyurethane to put on, that is the goal for tomorrow. We got the plans from http://ana-white.com/.