Month 21

Today my baby turned 21 months! He is 24.4 lbs and 32 1/2 inches! Yay! He loves bbq and will usually eat fish or chicken or meat if it's in a little sauce. He does like rotisserie chicken though. He's just not a huge meat eater though overall. He is still nursing about 3-5x/day depending on if it's a work day or not for me. Every morning he wakes up and says "mama" and signs milk and I tell him to get my phone and my glasses and my water and his sippy and he brings them all to me before he nurses. He's a very happy baby except the last few days he's started this...what seems to be "fake crying" where he covers his mouth with his hand and whimpers. His dad and I are not fans of that. He loves this show called "max & ruby" he can even say "max" which I think is incredible that he can say the X's. We've finally been able to get him to keep sunglasses and a hat on (we got some with mickey mouse on them). He says so many words now and will repeat any word. He still won't say "Yes" but this month we've gotten him to say "ok" and to say "yee" instead of yes. So it's progress. Wes also got him to start nodding his head yes. He also knows the color blue and can pick it out/identify it... Wonder if that's because of Blues Clues? We still have to work on the other colors though. It's amazing the things he knows just maybe can't articulate yet. He loves balls and he will say " a ball" so interesting that he's using articles. Also he will occasionally say "my daddy" so that's cool he can use pronouns too. I'm trying to get out of the habit of talking in the third person to help him understand pronouns. The only thing I wish is that he hadn't had so much tv exposure under age 2. Wes thinks he will be fine & says he doesn't watch that much tv but I'm always so paranoid. Aside from that, not much to report. I am working for the school district part time about 5 hours a day 4 days a week tutoring reading. Wes has some MRIs coming up and his knee is still giving him trouble since his surgery in December so he goes to see the surgeon Monday. Wes and Ethan play this game now where Ethan loves to drive his little firetruck under Wes' legs and they chase each other around the house. They're really bonding since Wes is playing "Mr. Mom" now. Otherwise, things are pretty good. We started a "family day" tradition on Sundays a little while back so this past week we went to Roos n More the zoo in Moapa. He pet a lot of animals and really seemed to like this big desert tortoise the most. He was pretty interested in the pigs too. Looking forward to taking Ethan to LegoLand for his birthday in June! And maybe next year to the San Diego Zoo.