I started this post over a month ago when he turned 15 months old! I never finished it and now that he is 16 months old today I thought I would try to finish it! So much has happened in the last 2 months of his life that I want to remember and document for my own remembrance, these monthly updates on him are usually long enough when I am just covering one month, so I will try not to be too long winded while trying to do two months worth.!
This age is very fun, but kicks my butt some times. He is always on the go, running and playing, and climbing and jumping. He is a boy through and through. He makes me laugh and smile every day. He makes me so happy and so proud to be his momma!
I'll first start with his 15 month check up he had, at his check up his stats were...
Height 32 inches 80%
Weight 23 lbs. 10 oz. 45%
Head 49 cm. 93%
(my whole family didn't believe his head percentage! They ALL said she must have measured wrong! my sister always says how little and petite he looks? I honestly don't know? It's probably accurate?)
Some of my favorite things about these past 2 months....
He says every ones names really well. Jason, Bugaboo, (auntie Mallory's nick name) Dean, jay jay, Brydee, Bailee... and on and on. Also It's so weird how he knows where we are when we are about to pull up to someones house, when we get to my parents house before we even get their he is saying and signing pa pa! pa pa! and when we pull up at Brittany's house he says Jay Jay! Brydee! How does he even know where we are is my question!?
His talking has just gotten SO good this past month, some of my favorite words he says is Cereal haha he says all the syllables and it cracks me up, Banana, which sounds more like nanana, guitar, and chocolate! (my fault he learned that one so fast! but really he is SO bad, loves the stuff and asks for it all the time!)
He does really well with playing with his toys. The things he comes up with makes me laugh, he was pushing around one of his trucks like he does all the time but he had the farmer in the back ridding a long. who taught him that? it's just funny what they pick up on. I was like "oh the farmer is going for a ride huh?"
He also plays with this little toy gun at my parents house and goes around saying bang bang bang.. again who taught him that?
He cut four more teeth and now has 10. I am pretty sure more are on their way.
He continues to sign a lot which is very helpful. It's just second nature to him to sign while he says something. And this last month or so my mom has finally gotten him to learn the sign for Grandma. After knowing the sign for papa for months she was getting kind of offended! :)
She now comes home from work and has more signs she wants to teach him (I think she has a little def boy on one of her bus runs that she has started asking him things.)
He continues to have poops in the toilet but only if we know when he is about to do one and we say lets go to the bathroom. Then he does his business and it makes clean up SO much easier! He doesn't by any means do it by him self yet. Which I am fine with he is still so little!
He is obsessed with "out side" like every other little boy is at this age! He would stay out side forever playing and exploring in all kinds of weather if I let him.
We have been trying to get William used to nursery for the past month or two. The nursery leader has said we can start bring him in because they don't have very many kids right now. It isn't working so well.. He loves it if I'm in there with him! but If he senses me leaving then he starts to get upset. I think we are progressing but I am worried that he still wont be ready when the baby comes, which has been my goal! Brandon and I are both very busy with callings during church hours so it's not so convenient to chase a toddler up and down the halls the whole time (which is what he would like to do!)
Although sacrament meting has gotten a lot better, The past 2 weeks in a row he has sat with us in sacrament meeting the whole time. (we just have to come really prepared with toys, and books, and snacks.) Cracks me up though when he starts going through one of his animal books and is saying all his animal sounds very loudly! you can't help but laugh when he is baucking like a chicken while it is so quite.
He continues to sleep in his crib 90% of the time. He has taken about a handful of naps in his toddler bed but hasn't conquered going to bed at night in it. I think that is going to be a little more of a challenge!
He has started to be more of a little stinker! Like he has learned to hit and push other kids. He tests us all the time and pushes his limits! We will tell him NO and if he keeps going we say "do you want a spanking?" he usually says "no" and stops. But not always, he has had his fare share of spankings. Sorry if you are offended and don't believe in that. Brandon and I see eye to eye on parenting and we spank his little but when he needs it! haha But I really think it helps. He learns pretty quickly and knows when something is off limits for example he goes up to the fireplace at my parents house and says "no no no" to it every time he sees it!
He continues to love to read books. We bring several with us when we go to church to keep him occupied. He points to everything on the pages and tells me what it is, weather it be an animal and the sound it makes to body parts or different kinds of foods.
I finally bought him a little baby doll. I know he is a boy and they aren't "supposed" to have dolls! but what could it hurt?! There was one on clearance at wal-mart and it is dressed in blue clothes so it's a boy in my eyes. when you push it's tummy it either says mama, dada, laughs, or cries. He is learning how to be soft with a baby. We are trying to practice before his baby brother comes! And it is adorable when I say rock your baby, and he rocks is from side to side!
His laugh is SO contagious he giggles when when he gets tickled. and I LOVE that sound!
He loves shoes? He gets them out of his drawers all the time and says "shoe" or he will get mine and hand it to me, or get Brandon's and say daddies!
Every family picture in the house is "daddy" even if Me and William are in it also. and every picture of me and Brandon that is in the house is "daddy"... what's up with that?
he is really good at saying Cheese for pictures. It makes me laugh when he is playing with my phone and holds it out and says cheese and tries to take a picture of him self.
He does the slides at the park all by him self. It's so funny to see how proud of him self he gets when he does it.
My favorite thing He does is raises his eye brows really high. He does this all the time. He has the best facial expressions. He does this thing where he scrunches up his face really small and then pop does the complete opposite and raises his eye brows really high and opens his eyes and mouth really wide. It is the funniest thing ever!
I could probably keep going but I will stop. I think this is enough for my journaling purposes.
2 comments:
I think it is great that you got him a doll!
Annalise now carries around a doll that is dressed in little boy clothes, and she says that it is her baby brother.
He sleeps right next to her bed every night in his little bed, and she sings him songs and feeds him all day.
William will be a great big brother....look at him feeding his baby!
I have to admit that if it was about someone elses baby I may not have been as willing to read it. But for Heaven sakes I could have kept reading about that little stinker. He is so dang cute...oh and I don't mean I wouldn't read about any of the other grand kids, cause I would have:)
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