18 Months

18 Months

 

Date

June 16, 2013
 

The official 18 month picture

Weight/Size

At Elliott's hepatology appointment last week he was 29.4 pounds and (I think) 30 inches.  He fell in percentiles.  He was in the 95th or 96th and now he's in the 90th.  He gained a pound since he was 15 months so his weight gain has finally slowed down.

Sleep

My biggest complaint is that it takes Elliott a long time to fall asleep at night.  He throws a huge fit and won't go to sleep at all if we just let him lay by himself, but sometimes I rock him for close to an hour before he's out.  Once he's out though, he's out and he sleeps until morning.

His wake up time is pretty variable.  Anywhere from 7:20 to 8:45.

 

(Not Elliott's finest moment)

Movement

Walking, walking, walking.  He loves walking and will walk circles around the house just because he can.  He tries to run to keep up with Spencer but just falls flat on his face.

Communication

Elliott combined two words for the first time a few weeks ago.  He said Bye-Bye Dada.  It's just the beginning of more and more communication.

 

He has around 60 words in his vocabulary.  Some of his new ones that I can think of are door, bubble, bagel (he says it "babel" and it's totally cute) and ah-choo (a fake sneeze).

Food

Hmmm.  I can't really think of any new foods.  How boring.

 

He's nursing at nap time and night time.  He's pretty indifferent about it. 

Teeth

Both of his bottom first molars are in.  The top first molars have cut through but are not all the way in yet.

Favorites

Reading, reading, reading.

Going places.  He will get the keys, hand them to me and say Go!

Blowing bubbles in the pool.

Going underwater in the pool.

Dislikes

Blood draws, doctors and haircuts

We were in Tucson this weekend and we "tried" to take 18 month pictures at my parent's house.  They were less than successful.

And if you think that the tiger shirt looks familiar, you are correct.

Spencer wore the same shirt for his 5 year-9 month photo shoot 10 days ago. 

 

It was planned and intentional, thank you very much.

June 2013

5 years-9 months and 18 months