22 Months Old

Clothes:You wear 12 or 18 month shorts and 18 month shirts. You are in 18 month pajamas and you are a peanut little boy!
Shoes: Size 4
Diapers: Size 5 diapers all of the time.  We ran out of 4's, but had 5's for nighttime.
Sleep: You sleep from about 8:00-8:30 until 8:00-8:30 the next morning. You are a very good nighttime sleeper and actually overall.  You still can take up to a 3 hour nap, but it's usually 1.5/2 hours.  Occasionally in the last month you cry when we leave you to go to sleep, but literally for 5 seconds and then you are done.

Teeth: I think 14.  You don't let me look in your mouth very often, but I'm pretty sure.  You have two of your 1 yr. molars and have two more coming in.
Traveling: We didn't do any traveling this month.  We've been enjoying our time at home though:)Talking: You speak gibberish with a few words that you can say quite clearly. One day you won't say a word we know you know, the next time you say it and it's hard to understand, and then the next time you say it so clearly your Dad and I get the "O" face and say, "Did you just hear that"!  So you still show signs that you will be just fine in the talking department.  Your hearing loss is always at the back of our minds and we try to monitor things closely just in case it starts causing you trouble with communication.  So far so good:) 
Favorite Songs: You like to sing your ABC's.  We can make out just a few letters, but you have the tune down and you will sign this to yourself when you are waking up in your crib in the morning.

 

Favorite Activity: You LOVE to play outside, be read to and read to us, explore new things, and wrestle your sister.  She hates it, but if you are in the right mood and she is even remotely laying on the floor you dive right in and laugh and smile and she screams for help!  It's quite funny! You've learned the word ball and you like to play with that in the backyard.  Now that it's warm enough we've been playing with the water table a lot and love it.  We've started up walks again and you hardly say boo.  You love to sit and watch and seem to enjoy them a lot.
Favorite Books: I really can't say that you have a favorite.  You'll be into a couple and then three days later it's a new couple of books that you love. We'll start going to the library again now that Mom is done with school.  I'm excited to see your reaction to it.

 

Favorite Foods: You love peanut butter, cheese, and nanas!  You would eat a banana every hour of the day if we let you! 
Foods Dislike: It's a struggle.  You are still quite picky! There are a lot of veggies that you just don't eat.  If we give you something and can get you to at least try it you get a sour face and spit it right back out.  When you get frustrated with the food on your tray and are done with being in your highchair you'll start flinging food off of either side.

Dislikes: You don't like being in your highchair.  You want to be a big boy and sit up at the table with your sister, but I can't always get you to sit down and you'll start dancing on our very high chairs!!  Almost there though.  We had your sister in the booster chair by this age, but you are so strong and so wiggly that we are afraid you'll topple the whole chair. You hate coming in from outside and you cry and scream.  For a couple of weeks you were biting Mommy anytime that you had to do something that you didn't want to do.  Ouch!  Only me though, so we were thankful for at least that. When you don't like things you sure do know how to let us know.  You are a loud little boy and will scream at us. We ask you a lot to not scream:)

 

Favorite Word: I'd say it was no, but you've started to say the word yes!  Yeah!  It's fun to hear that.You don't really have a favorite word that you repeat over and over.  We do get you to repeat a few more words for us, but you aren't super into it.  When you repeat "I love you" it's like music to our ears:)
Things we are learning: How to take off some of your clothes. You still need a little help.  You know how to work the remote, how to steal paci's from your crib, and you've gotten really good at pointing to things while we read. It goes either way whether we ask you to point to something or you point to it and want to know what it is. You can say A when trying to say your ABC's. You know quite a few body parts and you love people.  You are soaring in the people skills department.  Anyone that we see on the sidewalk or wherever you give them a big HIIII!  When new people come to the door you come running with a huge smile on your face.  When they leave you love giving big hugs. You are just a sweet sweet little boy!

Mr. Kieran-you light up our life.  We could just stare at you all day and watch you learn and grow.  You are funny, silly, stubborn at times, sweet and caring.  One thing that makes our hearts melt is when your sister gets hurt, you sprint to her side to give her a hug.  It's so neat to see compassion in such a little boy.  We are proud of you.  We love you!