David,
You are now 15 months. Where has the time flown?!
This month has been much sweeter. Yes, there are still days of challenge, but on the whole, you have been better rested, more cheerful and far more content! Even your teachers at church always comment now about how much they love you AND HOW SWEET YOU ARE!!! What a change from the early days!
We did have a few moments of despair right after the time change, but on the whole, you are mostly back to sleeping 12 hours at night until 6:30 or sometimes later (it used to be 7:00) You also still nap really well with 2 1/2-3 hours in the afternoon.
This month has been focused on your physical development an awful lot. You can now run and climb anywhere! Your latest favorite pasttime is to climb on the furniture--couch, chair, etc...---and then stand up and laugh. You go up and down stairs as a regular part of your day now. You also love to climb in and out of your toybox. (and the tub too as you rarely take long baths anymore--you are too eager to be out and playing!)
Your favorite toys are still balls, and all our old-cast offs (see last month), to now include your Leap Frog Farm Fridge and a shape sorter. You love to be outside too. You also like your duplo legos...already building tall tower!
All this physical development seems to have slowed down your verbal. In fact, while you constantly babble still, you rarely use the words now that you even knew before, and never on command.
The only exception to this month's cheerfulness is in the eating category which continues to be challenging apart from feeding you peas and chicken nuggets at every meal...well, to be honest, you eat fish sticks and carrots pretty well too, you occasionally eat pb&j (or at least the PB&j minus the bread; see last post), occasionally grilled cheese, most fruits, and all crackers, but not a fan of much else-- i.e. hot dogs, deli meat, cheese by itself, eggs, hamburger, meatballs, rice, broccoli, cauliflower, etc...
Any wonder then that you have continued to grow! You now wear almost entirely 18mo. plus clothes (with the exception of the waist of pants which is 12 months, not length unfortunately). You are also still wearing size 4 diapers during the day so that I can use them up, but you are really in size 5 all the time due to all the leaks we have in the size 4. You also wear all size 6 1/2 shoes now.
This month you did attend 3 costume parties, go to the Old MacDonald Farm petting zoo, had several playgroups at the park, and had your first professional haircut.
Our first party--a Sunday school party
The second--a kids playgroup party
Imagine trying to get 23 children, ages 2 and under, to sit still and lined up on a couch! This was the result...
We decided it might be more successful to include the 20 mothers as well.
the third--Trunk or Treat at our church.
You liked the Llama at the petting zoo
and forget the little pumpkins--you wanted one almost as large as you are!
On our first trip to the first park, all you really wanted to do was chase the birds--lucky they are faster than you! (the swinging was fun too)
The second trip shows your true colors! You are ever the independent roamer. As someone so aptly described, you will be the chap who will visit someone's house and open the medicine cabinet just out of curiosity. Our trip to Rob Fleming Park was no exception. I spent the entire time chasing you around as you explored it all--slides, open fields, stairs, pavilion, climbing rocks...
and again with your first pro haircut
I look forward to seeing what next month holds as we head on our first plane flight.
PS speaking of planes, you are fascinated with them! Any time you hear one, you crane your neck in the sky and point at it. In fact, the only time you stopped running around at Rob Fleming park was to point at the model airplanes that two men were flying.
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