Eighteen Months

You are officially a year and a half! From here on out you are closer to being a TWO year old than a one year old. Ahhhhh what is happening?!

If these two pictures don't perfectly personify life with Noah, I don't know what does! haha

G R O W T H

• Height: 2ft 8in
• Weight: 26lbs 2oz
• Clothing Size: 18-24 month, can still fit into some 12 month clothes but they are getting a little bit snug. 24 month stuff is a little roomy but perfect for pj's. 
• Shoe Size: 5

L I K E S 

• Being outside
• Taking showers like a big boy
• Any kind of animal/animal noises
• Reading all the books
• Going to the library/toddler time
• Helping. You LOVE having jobs to do!
• Playing in your dry bean and pompom sensory bins

D I S L I K E S

• When your socks come off. You always used to love being barefoot but now that you are walking I guess you want socks on. 
• Having to come inside
• Being told no
• Diaper changes/getting dressed. Naked forever! lol 
• When it's warm one day and you can play outside all night, and then too cold/wet the next day and you can't go out at all. Really hard to explain that lol 

E A T I N G

• We had parmesan crusted tilapia, broccoli with cheese, and broccoli rice for dinner one night and you scarfed it all down! We were so surprised. Tilapia does taste like chicken and everything was covered in cheese, but still. You impressed us!
• Still not a huge fan of vegetables (other than corn) or meat, but if we mix it with some jarred fruit or cottage cheese you'll eat anything. GROSS.
• There are days where you eat nonstop and seriously eat more than us! 
• Tolerating most dairy very well, as long as you don't get too much dairy two meals in a row you usually do okay.
• Tried whole milk and that did not agree with you, so I think we'll stick with almond milk. You really love it and get so excited for it. Sometimes I'll add chocolate or blend it with a banana (or both!) but you like it plain too. 
• Love smoothies and will drink an adult size portion + half of mine if I don't drink it fast enough. You don't even care if I sneak weird stuff (spinach) in it, I probably could throw in some meat and you would be none the wiser. But that just grosses me out too much. You're welcome.

S L E E P

• We had two weeks where you slept SO awesome. 12+ hours at night plus a 3 hour nap. Went down in 10 minutes, tops. It was the best two weeks of my life. Then it all changed. You're starting to average out again but at night it is so hard to get you down sometimes. It was taking 1-2 hours most nights, and then you'd wake up in the middle of the night and be up for another hour or two before you go back to sleep. I keep blaming it on your teeth but they keep not poking through so who knows. 
• We have tried following a strict routine and going to bed at the same time every night, we've tried letting you stay up til you start acting tired, we've tried no sugar after your afternoon snack...nothing seems to matter, you just do what you wanna do, and it ain't sleepin lol So we mostly try to stick to an 8-8:30 bedtime, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't.
• Take a really good afternoon nap, usually 2-3 hours long. There's been a couple times where you try to push it off until later, usually if we've been out and about or something got you off schedule. There's only been one time that you flat out refused nap time, usually you fall asleep almost instantly.
• Weekend naps are all over the place. I try to keep to your usual schedule, Daddy doesn't respect nap time quite like I do lol But it usually works out okay.
• When you wake up you LOVE playing in your crib. You love to show me all your stuffed animals and we make the noises and you drop them out so I can make them sneak up on you. If you don't get your time to play and wake up you get kind of cranky. 

D E V E L O P M E N T

• Can say: mama, da (daddy), daw (dog), hot, hi, ffff (woof), moo, pa-pa (pasta or pizza), acky, paca (pancake), hop, pop, ight (light).
• Can point to: eyes, ears, nose, mouth, head, belly. Sometimes toes. 
• You babble alllll the time. You are so close to full on talking, and once you do I don't think you'll ever stop! 
• Love love love to read! All day long. You love to be read to, but you will also sit and look through your books by yourself and babble away as if you are reading.
• Have recently really taken to stuffed animals. The other day you were putting them in the rocking chair and covering them with a blanket and then rocking them and patting them. So cute! 
• Getting pretty good at following directions/simple demands. (Only when you want to of course!) But if I'm in the kitchen I can ask you to go find a specific toy and you'll go get it and bring it back to me.

P E R S O N A L I T Y

• Out of this world haha That never seems to change :) 
• You are so expressive. So many facial expressions and you put your whole body into them. 
• Pretty much think everything is funny!

Things I want to Remember:

• All of your grunts and groans, you sound like an old man!
• How observant you are, you'll hear sirens or airplanes or birds outside and run to the windows to see if you can see anything.