21 months

• You keep saying "Eeewwee Weee, All white" I don't know where you got that from but you say it all the time


• You are loving some rap music and you cry if I turn the radio station... I'm sure that's not very good parenting but whatever


• You said "shut up" after hearing the ever so tactful Khloe Kardashian say it. I don't think you even know what it means so I didn't make a big deal about it. Again, Keeping Up with the Kardashians is probably not the best choice of television program for a one year old but it's so hard to turn it off!!! I really do want to try my best to preserve your innocence.


• You are counting to eleven really well. I guess the number of the day being 16 really paid off! You still pretend 7 doesn't exist though. When we sing the ABC's you join in on a few letters instead of just humming the tune. You're recognizing some letters (E, O, L, X) on occasion but every very time I think you know them, you give me the clueless face. I thought you had finally mastered the basic colors too but suddenly everything has become red.


• Your new favorite book is an Elmo book with pictures of stuff you have to find in the scene... like the toilet paper in the bathroom. You're pretty good at matching the pictures.


• You have a recent obsession with dump trucks, bull dozers, back hoe's, buses, and motorcycles. Every time we pass one on the road, you yell & point and say "dunk" for dump truck & "bat-toe" for back hoe/bull dozer & "bull dus" for school bus. Maybe we need speech therapy!? ha. Oh, the "too too tain" is also a very important fixture in our lives. It gets thrown across the room numerous times a day though. You can't seem to figure out how to hook the car in the hole of the engine. Anyway, I just laugh and show you again. I understand where your temper comes from...


• We found a little baby turtle and I thought you would just love it. I held it and showed it to you. After I put it down on the ground you tried to whack it with a gold club. Lucky for the cute little baby turtle, you missed. I had a stern talk with you about how animals are our friends and we have to be nice & easy with them. You said you understood. Feeling like I had done a good job at teaching you this lesson, I let you go and you went and stomped right on the turtle. Good thing for turtle shells. :(


• Every time I get off the phone you look at me and say "who dat?" When the phone rings or beeps with a text you run and pick it up and said "who dis?" ha. You are very polite about it though... you only ask after we hang up.


• At your last doctor's appt you had to get shots. It wasn't pretty but I didn't think you would remember. When you went to the doctor's office with Erica, you screamed and cried and said "no hurt" when the nurse came in. You weren't even there for you! Then, yesterday, you went to the doctor with me and as soon as we went into the exam room, you started to cry saying "no hurt mommy, no hurt." That's pretty sad. I am not looking forward to the next visit to your doctor... I'm afraid it probably will hurt!


• You definitely have your mother's lack of caution when it comes to running into things and falling down. You are constantly hitting your head on the floor, skinning your knees, and most recently you scratched the skin off of your nose and upper lip at a birthday party.


• You are still super friendly and social. I really can't keep up with you at birthday parties. You are all over the place, trying to play with the older kids, eating off stranger's plates, sitting in kid's plates, etc. I'm glad you are a busy kid but it is exhausting.


• You cry when the train passes or an airplane flies out of view. You just can't understand where they are going?!


• You are looking like a big boy now. You are getting taller and thinner. You won't eat like you did when you were a baby. Mostly you just chew up your food and spit it out... unless it's a nack. You have been sitting at the table with us instead of in your high chair. You run to the window if you think Jay is home and say "daddy home mommy!" You like to announce alot of things like "Daddy peepee in potty" or "Yoyo poopoo out dere." You are really fascinated that dogs poop in the yard... I can only guess where that will lead!