Stats
Size 5 diapers
18m-2T clothing. 24m/2T fits best.
27.2 pounds (39%) & 33.12 inches (23%)
Notable events
We stayed in a cabin for a few nights and hiked in Arches and Canyonlands National Parks. This was his first hiking trip where he actually did some hiking, and he loved it! In fact, there were a lot of times when he was in the hiking carrier and begging to get out — “walk! walk!” He did so great with the thrown off schedule and loved being outside so much.
Tricks/Milestones
He’ll say any word we give him at this point, and is stringing about 3 words together — “mama help please” “sit read story” “sleepsack off please” “look at me”
He is updating the way he says things he was previously saying only part of, or incorrectly. For instance, “I love you” instead of “love you,” “Holly” instead of “Hoddie,” “banana” instead of “mena.”
He’ll say the last word or two of a phrase, so we can lead him in prayers now, which is super cute.
He also does it with our family motto, which we say after our nightly family prayer. It’s so cute to have him join in!
He has so many teeth! He’s missing his bottom left canine, but it will likely pop through in the next couple weeks. He does not have his second set of molars yet. That brings him to a total of 15 teeth at the moment.
He loves to test his body’s limits! He is jumping, galloping, and climbing at the playground! We got him a strider bike for his birthday, and although he’s quite timid with it at the moment, I’m sure he’ll be zooming around by the end of the summer.
He loves to help unload the dishwasher with me every morning. He gets mad if he notices me finishing before he can help out.
HE FINALLY LAYS DOWN (mostly) WILLINGLY FOR A DIAPER CHANGE (starting around 22.5 months). I love this milestone. Ironically, he started being more okay with diaper changes right after he got an infected penis. So basically, after several diaper changes where he was in pain with every wipe, he finally decided diaper changes were fine. What a weirdo 🤣
Favorite things
He gives kisses with noise, now! And he almost always kisses one cheek and then the other. He also gives hugs!
He was OBSESSED with the photo books for a while. He still likes them a lot, but doesn’t feel the need to pull them all out every day anymore, thank goodness. He also loves a board book called “Baby Colors.”
He’s great at independent play! He likes to play with cars, blocks, and magnetiles. He also loves to snuggle and love on a small baby doll, an American Girl puppy, and a stuffed bear (Scout).
He loves to help cook. Anytime he sees me or Russ with a knife or a pot, he’s scrambling to climb a chair to watch and help.
He kind of sings along to his bedtime song 😍
He also walks around singing “I walk . . . Jesus” sometimes (because the girls have sung a song called “I will walk with Jesus” many times over the last few months), and it’s adorable.
Random tidbits
He’s so good at putting his shoes where they belong. If only his sisters were that good!
He tucks one or both arms inside his sleep sack most times when he’s sleeping.
He recently started sucking/biting his fingers/thumbs, usually his pointer and his thumb at the same time. It seems a similar habit to thumb-sucking, except he doesn’t use it for sleep, just when he’s bored or chill. I do not want this habit since he doesn’t even use it for sleep! So I put on some yucky polish right before lunch one day, which then caused him to throw up the beginnings of his lunch when his fingers got in his mouth 🙈 I haven’t tried again since 😂
He says “thank you” unprompted and it’s so cute.
We read a book called “Red Hat, Green Hat” and each page ends with the word, “Oops!” He loves to say every “oops.”
I can easily take a shower without him trying to get in with me now! He’ll sometimes come in and pull back the shower curtain (usually only the non-spraying side now!) and say hi for a minute, and then he’s back to independent play.
Sleep
Luckily Pete’s hate of his crib was short-lived, and he’s perfectly happy to go to bed at both naptimes and bedtime.
His schedule looks like:
7:15am wake him
1-3:15pm nap
8pm down (4.75 hours after I wake him from his nap)
I wake him at 7:15 because if I leave him longer, he takes forever to fall asleep for his nap, or he skips it altogether.
Usually he falls asleep for his nap within 20 minutes. He has stayed awake through crib90 a couple of times, but only when I’ve let him sleep late in the morning.
He still takes 30 minutes (sometimes more) to fall asleep after we lay him down. He’s happy and content though, so I’m not worried about it.
His schedule in waketimes is approximately 5.75 / 4.75. His sleep works out to be about 1.5-2 daytime hours, 10-10.5 nighttime hours, and 12.5 hours total.
