Height: 32.5 inches (60th percentile)
Weight: 25.2 lbs (40th percentile). That is the weight for Ethan+Ghost Bear. He wouldn't give him up.
Head circumference:49.3 (85th percentile)
- You are wearing mostly size 18 month clothing along with a few size 24 month one-pieces. However most of your size 18 month onesies still fit great! Some of your size 18 month t-shirts are still too big so I find it funny that you can wear a few things in size 24 month.
- In PJ's you are wearing size 18 month and the one-piece PJ's are getting snug. However you can't even walk in size 24 month one-piece PJ's. You are able to wear size 24 month two-piece PJ's even though they are definitely big.
- You wear size 4 diapers and size 4 shoes. Hats you wear size 18-24 month and they fit great but won't for too much longer. You have always been one size larger with hats!
- Sleep: You are still pretty good with it but this past month you have been going to bed later and getting up earlier. Also, the lengths of your naps have been more erratic. You usually go to bed around 7:30 now and wake up between 5:30 and 6:30 AM. Recently you tried switching your wake up time to 4:30 AM. Instead of your 3 hour naps they have been ranging between 30 minutes and 2.5 hours. Typically around 45 minutes to 1.5 hours though. You start to get tired around 9:30 AM and resist your nap until around 1 PM.
- You can climb up on the couch all by yourself, no one sitting on it and nothing to stand on. You have been perfecting this skill all month and you used to have to have someone sitting there that you could use for leverage. (Not that we encouraged this...but we would cuddle on the couch with you) The first time I turned around and saw you sitting on the couch by yourself you scared me so bad!
- While we were on vacation you started quacking like a duck anytime we went into a parking garage. Now that we are home, you have continued the trend but only when we are in our garage. Doesn't echo the same but you still do it!
- You consistently stack up to 7 cups/objects. You love to stack everything! I even saw you trying to stack your Chex cereal pieces.
- You love to put toys on your head. Or on our heads. Though you aren't too gentle with placing it when it's on our heads! You think this is such a funny game and you try hard to balance it as long as you can. You prefer when we put it on your head for you because you can balance it much longer.
- In case I haven't mentioned it before, you love to chew on Ghost Bear.
And not just when you are going to sleep.
You have taken to carrying him
in your mouth so that you have both hands free to play and don't have
to set him down.
He goes everywhere with you. I think you are even more
attached if that is possible.
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You are no longer squeamish about touching slimy foods with your hands.
You pick up and eat chunks of banana when you get tired of trying to
use the fork. You love to smoosh cooked carrots but you don't eat them.
However if 15 minutes later I offer you purred carrots you will eat
them. I bet carrots are the next thing that you give in on. ;-) (side note: since I started writing this post, Ethan has eaten diced cooked carrots. Once)
-You ate guacamole and also Chex cereal dipped in hummus. And yet you
are so picky about some of the basic foods that most kids love! Funny
boy. :-)
- You love to play in the curtains and go into the closet and play in the fabric of momma's dresses. You like to wrap the fabric around you because its cool and soft.
- This isn't new, but when you run you put your arms out behind you and lean forward . In my mind, I think you are doing this to make yourself "run faster".
- My other theory is that you are doing it all the time now because the penguin on Pingu (a show you like to watch) runs likes this. You also have been pursing your lips more and saying "snoo snoo" which is what the penguin does on Pingu.
- You still love to turn in circles until you get dizzy. You look out of the corner of your eyes when you do it. I tried it and I can see why you do it- it makes you even dizzier! Silly kid! You have gotten quite good at keeping your balance when you turn circles though!
- You love to play in the bathtub-with or without water! If you are extra cranky its a proven mood lifter!
- You love to hear how sounds change. You like to talk into cups or put your hand over your mouth when you talk to hear how your voice changes. You also like to put things on your ears to hear the difference in the sound. In this photo you are wearing the two half's of an Easter egg over your ears.
- You aren't always the most cooperative on group activities. ;-) I thought it was funny that when I went to pick you up from Sunday school you were the only child who didn't have 20 hand prints all over your paper.
- You still aren't very verbal but when Kalyn and the girls came to visit us you started saying "Mama" again. I guess it took some jealousy and seeing your mother hold someone else's baby to give you a good reason to say my name! I can see you taking in what we are saying but you don't show the desire to repeat it back. I guess this is just a sign that you'll talk when you are good and ready.
Happy half-birthday, Ethan Garrett! We love you!
