We've been so busy this summer. It's been so much fun, but a little exhausting!! It's not about to slow down this fall either. This past weekend we had my niece's first birthday party!! I had so much fun being part of the planning. It was fun to plan a pink party! We also celebrated the 50th birthday of the church we go to (I have gone my whole life except while I was away at college). We had a great time with fun bounce houses, games, food and worship!
So James is actually 22 1/2 months now, but at least I am getting this written! It's been in the back of my mind for awhile now I just couldn't seem to get it done. I've also been debating if I was going to continue updating each month for the rest of his life! I've decided to stop at 2 years old, so I only have a couple months left. I have a lot of fun thinking through and writing out the progress he's made each month because it seems like there is so much growth each time. But guess it will slow down here at some point.
For now..here is what my busy boy is up to:
-Still taking 2 naps a day. It's unbelievable to me that he still takes two. I thought this was suppose to end at one year. I have experimented with putting him down later and just doing one, but it hasn't turned out well. He sleeps about an hour maybe an hour and a half and then it's 1:30 and too early for him to be up but too late for him to take another nap before dinner. It's nice he takes two naps when I'm home, it would just be more convenient when we are out and about.
-Great eater still. We did have our first stand off yesterday. For some reason he didn't want to eat the rest of his mac n' cheese. Well I knew he wasn't full so it was just because he wanted to play. He tried all sorts of things to get out of eating. We sat there 45 minutes before he finally decided to finish. He didn't throw a fit, he whined a bit but it was more a test of who was going to be more stubborn. I won! :)
-Talking, Talking! He's up to 3 word sentences and 3 syllable words. He's so funny how he jabbers so much. He of course doesn't have the ending to all of his words, I can understand him 95% of the time and a stranger probably 75%. It is getting harder though, even Mike has me translate sometimes because he has so much he wants to say now the words are smashed together sometimes! Like the other day we were driving home and he was talking about what he wanted for snack he said, "going home. grapes. bar. choc. milk. outside." It's so fun.
-We have been practicing our somersaults and I got out a piece of wood yesterday so he could use it as a balance beam. He thought it was great. He loves a challenge.
-"Say hi tooie" loves his grandpa's tools. My dad and Mike's dad both have plenty of tools, and James thinks it's pretty cool when they let him play with them.
-We have also been working on our colors. He can recognize red, blue, yellow, orange, white, black and green. He can name black and white and is inconsistent on red, blue and yellow.
-He also likes to count. He can count to 10 (most of the time) and can count 3 objects on his own and sometimes more.
-Still loves the phone and his new one is the "papa ipad" He loves to watch the Wheels on the Bus song and helicopters. On my phone he colors, and watches himself on video (while going potty only!)
-Speaking of..potty training is going great! He is completely trained. He wears a diaper at night still because there are random wet diaper mornings, but for the most part he is dry! He now can pull his own pants down and climb up on the toilet on his own. He does a great job!! He loves to run around in his underwear. After he goes potty he tells me, "no shorts?"
I have been waiting for the day when I thought he was ready for playdoh..today was the day! I used a really simple recipe from pinterest and he loved it. He told me, "fun toy!" Here are a couple pictures of him today.
He is such a fun little boy. I love him so much and have really been trying to stop and enjoy each moment of the day. It's so easy to wish the time away each day. It's going way to fast and he'll be in school before I know it!
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