Going on 21 months

My sweet baby boy is just about 21 months old. Oh my goodness, he just continues to get more fun every day. I absolutely LOVE this little guy. I hope I can hug and kiss on him forever. Do you think he will let me love on him when he's 15? I cannot imagine our house without him. He keeps us so busy! Here's what he's been up to:

• He now has 8 teeth.



• He's being very picky about food right now. For example, he ate some cream of chicken soup the other day and there are those tiny little pieces of chicken - he will spit those out. He absolutely does not like meat unless it is a corn dog or Chic-Fil-A nugget. He is also being picky about fruits and vegetables. :-( He still loves his milk, yogurt, and all things carb.



• He still loves books and being read to.



• He's getting good at puzzles and putting things together.



• Loves to go outside and loves being pushed on his new tricycle.



• He is copying things we are doing all the time. Today he got the little trash cans from the bathrooms and tried to dump them in the big trash can in the kitchen like Laine does before trash day.



• He's throwing some nice little tantrums when things don't work quite like he believes they should.



• The biggest change over the last month or so has been with his talking. He is picking up new words every day. We are amazed at how much he has picked up recently. He says: sit, baby, go, kitty cat, shoe, sock, please, thank you, bus, big truck, school, trash, snack,banana, bike, mitten, hat, hot, cold, bye, play, mama, dada, pat pat, milk, water, bubble, bath, ball, sheep, duck, feet, eat, pizza, lips, nose, and more that I cannot think of at the moment. He's also talking to himself a lot and saying several "words" in a row that we can't understand. It's been so much fun to watch him blossom!



• We've been reading our Bible every night and he says "pat pat" and baby each time we get it out. He says "pat pat" because there is a song he sings in Bible class that says pat pat and he says baby because there's a little dedication in his Bible from the elders at our church and there is a picture of a baby on the card. He hasn't torn any pages yet. Yea!



• Every night he has to take his sheep or some other animal and several books to bed with him. Often he takes a hat too. It's so funny to me that he remembers to grab a few things each night.



• He's starting to point to his diaper and say "tee tee."



• He wrestles with daddy every night after dinner before he takes his bath. Jackson will start to growl or make a loud shrieking sound and Laine knows it's time. I'm just hoping he doesn't try his moves out at school. I think this is why he sleeps so well at night.



• He loves to wear his jacket, mittens, and hat. The other day he threw a huge fit when we tried to take the hat off at church so we just let him wear it.

I guess that's it for now. We thank God every day for allowing us to raise this little guy.