Landon: 19 Months!

Landon,

At 19 months you:

• Weigh 27-28 lbs
• Wear size 4 diapers and do not like to slow down for diaper changes. 
• You wear 24 month sleepers and size 18-24 month clothing. You also wear size 5 shoes.
• Sleep: You go down easily at bedtime and sleep from 7:30 at night to 7:30 in the morning and take a nap from 12:30 to 3 pm if its a day when you are going to nap. You've started skipping your nap once or twice a week. On those days you might spend 2 hours in your crib playing and still not sleep. It's not always an easy afternoon though, often it means lots of extra books, rocking, and going in and out of your room trying to get you to take a nap., 
• Food: Your favorite food at the moment is acorn squash. You scrape every last piece off your plate and will eat it before any other food. Oranges are a close second.
• Words: You keep getting better and better at talking and amaze me all the time with the things you have learned and picked up on. You have started to string your words together into phrases and I have heard you use 4-6 word phrases. Some favorite new phrases are: "I'm stuck" (We hear it all the time when you are buckled into something), "I sorry", and "Uh oh, I made a mess". You also say things like "Cheese yum, cheese all gone! More?" to communicate with me. You've gone from saying "Moon, the moon I see" when pointing to the moon to saying "Moon. I see the moon" so we are noticing that you are getting better with speaking correctly.
• You have 12 teeth and you love to brush them! You will run to get your teeth brushed.
• You have started to really get into coloring and stickers. You already liked the chalk board but now whenever the craft table is out (which tends to be most days of the week) you matter of factly climb onto a chair. If you brother is doing art, you want to as well but also you ask to do it when he is not. You like to point to the sticker you'd like from the sheet of stickers and I can tell that you are concentrating hard as you try to place it as carefully as possible on your paper. You can fill most of a page with stickers. 
• You love youtube. Now that you have discovered on-demand animal, color, and nursery rhyme videos you have been a little bit of a pest. However, when we do watch them you are pretty cute with your dancing and chiming in with the sounds.
• You will climb anything. ANYTHING. We spend a lot of time out of the house because its just too exhausting to spend a whole day at home.
• You have been honing your problem solving skills. You love being outside and ask to go outside all day long. I wasn't humoring you at the moment so you climbed into a chair and unlocked the sliding door. Another day you wanted to reach the cat but he was out of reach so you went and got the grabber so you could reach him.  
• Sometimes your interactions with your brother surprise me with how grown up they seem. You and your brother were at the craft table and you were shoving the table into your brother to make him squeal. Ethan turns to me and complains, "Mom, Landon's hurting me! He's not being nice!" Then Landon, you surprised me by turning to me and loudly stating "I'm nice!".
• You've picked up some other not so cute tricks like taking big drinks of milk and water and then spitting them down the front of your shirt for fun until you are soaked. For one reason or another you rarely end the day in the same outfit that you started off wearing.
• You like to spin around to make yourself dizzy and do all other types of rough play.
• You've got your own angry pout and its cute. I have yet to get a picture of it.

I love the way your eyes light up when I ask you to brush your teeth or when I sing a nursery rhyme that you recognize. I especially love the sweet smiles that you give me when I sing "You Are My Sunshine". 

You are eager to try new words. You don't have any hesitation or fear of getting it wrong. You will try to say any word that we try to teach you. Most times you get it right. You are a language sponge. You know all your colors and will pick them out when we ask you where they are. You also know your animal sounds and can identify those animals in real life (that surprised me!) You can sing the alphabet song to the letter g and then sing the tune to the rest of it. You know a lot of letters already and I'm loosing count with which letters and numbers you know with the rate that you are picking it up.

Your comprehension amazes me. You run around wild and crazy in the morning trying to avoid a diaper change but if I sing you the getting ready song from Daniel Tiger with the steps to getting ready and the activity that we are doing then you will run from step to step eager to help me get you ready. You are impatient though...when you are done with your steps you want to go NOW. :-)

Landon, you are changing faster than I can make these blog notes. It seems you are surprising me with new things every day. You are such an independent little guy and eager to do things on your own. You enjoy making your own decisions. You want to pick out your own clothes already. Your big brother doesn't even have a wardrobe opinion but you do! You are your own little person and I take so much delight in discovering your own little quirks and preferences. You already seem so big to me! It's hard to believe that you are still only halfway to your second birthday. 

19 Months

At 19 months you:


- Still wear some size 18 month clothes (Overalls, PJ's, T-shirts), and are wearing size 24 month clothes (Onesies, and shorts)
- Wear size 4 shoes and 4 diapers.

My biggest news for this month is that you are finally expanding the variety of table food you will eat!

Froggy lunchbox

 You still don't eat a lot of variety (unless its pureed) but I feel like you are varying it up enough now that I can cut out the purees and you'll still get the nutrients you need. :-)

Lunch on the go! Chicken, sliced mango, grapes, and plum!

 Also, the quantity of table food that you will eat is increasing to where I feel like you actually had a meal. I'm sure variety will follow!

  
Also exciting is your new found love of baths!




And last but not least, you are no longer afraid of the vacuum cleaner! In fact, you are fascinated by it now! [still impossible for me to vacuum though. ;-) ] I can't believe that just last month you were playing chicken with the vacuum. Hiding behind the couch when it was out or sneaking up to the closet and peeking in on it.






You love sticks and anything that looks like a stick or could be treated as a stick. This includes, swords, hangers, pens, etc.

Playing at Playgroup

It has been very hot this month with temperatures usually over 100 degrees so most of our playtime has been indoors. 

Playing with a friend at playgroup

Playgroup photo.

You love your "Monsters". They actually aren't yours, they are your Dad's Godzilla action figures but you are fascinated by them and ask to see them. We get the biggest smile from you when we hand you one!

You love being tickled and recently you have started tickling my feet to make me laugh. :-)



You love to play the music on your laugh and learn puppy. When it plays "Head Shoulders Knees and Toes" I'll dance along with it and you get excited and want to be picked up so that we can dance together. Your puppy plays other songs as well and we like to "crazy dance" together along to the songs. You love this!



 You have discovered bubble wrap and you love it! It was your idea to take it over to the tile so that you could pop the bubbles easier. You danced and danced on that piece of bubble wrap!




You like to put your hands over your face and hide when I try to feed you something you don't like. You also will put your arm over your face and hide when a stranger tries to talk to you.



However if a stranger ignores you you will flirt and do your cheesecake grin so big that you end up squinting.



You love to pull out the broom and drag it around. Same goes for the swiffer and the tool that we use to knock your toys and the cats' toys out from under the stove and fridge.

Someone is still sleepy.

You recently started playing with Ghost Bear #2.

Ghost Bear and Ghost "Spare"

Original Ghost Bear is still your #1 and you have a definite preference for him, but previously you wouldn't even touch Ghost Bear #2.

Now you like to play with BOTH of them. 

You have a little blue stool that you love. You love sitting on it and you like to carry it from room to room just to sit. When you sit on it you straddle it as you walk over it and then once it is behind you, you'll sit down on. One of your favorite rooms to drag your stool to is mommy and daddy's bathroom. You love to sit in front of the mirror.




You have been after the cats all month. Chasing them with/without a cat toy, shrieking with glee as you find Beau on top of the couch and you try to "pet" him. You aren't very gentle though!

If Dada starts to fall asleep while y'all are playing on the floor you will run up to him and then pick up his head. You like knowing that you are our center of attention!

You still love hide and seek. Any chance you get you will run ahead of me and dart into one of the rooms to hide.

You get in the pantry at every opportunity and like to play with whatever you can get your hands on. Vinegar, olive oil, baking supplies, peanut butter jars, etc.





You like to spin in circles with Mama. You will throw back your head and give out the purest happiest laughter!

My precious boy, how I cherish the past year and a half we have spent together! I love being there for your "every day" moments. You have a sparkling personality and are such a joy!