Sixteen Months

A few fun stories about our favorite 16 month old big boy...

 

He loves to "help" in the kitchen.  We drag a kitchen chair over to the counter and he will gladly help make a mess with any recipe I am concocting.

Speaking of messes, he is likely one of the world's messiest eaters.  We got his Highlights Hello magazine a few weeks ago with a story that goes something like this..."When Teddy eats, he feeds the cat.  He drops spaghetti on the mat.  He squishes veggies.  He smears grape jelly.  Does any food get in his belly?"  This kind of sums up our eating experiences.  Well, that and the fact that he uses his hair as a napkin.  We regularly hold him over the sink to remove the banana treatment from his blond locks.

He loves ketchup!  I had the refrigerator open to pour him some juice, but instead, he removed the ketchup from the bottom shelf of the refrigerator door and climbed up into his seat (while carrying the ketchup...which was quite a production for a boy of his size I might add) and proceeded to give me this puppy dog look.  He really wanted to eat ketchup.  

He is still excellent at climbing onto and into things.  The picture of him in the diaper box was particularly amusing.

 

In other updates...

• he has a few words now including juice, cheese, up, down, yes, dog, ball, along with Mama and Dada, of course.  We still can't pick out his word for his big brother, but he can point him out or chase him down whenever we ask him where his big brother is.
• he wants to do everything his brother does and play with the same things his brother plays with.
• he is at a phase where he wants to do everything and climb everything, but he has no fear of the consequences of falling.  Needless to say, we are nearly always within arms reach to keep him out of the danger that he creates for himself.  I'm always happy when this stage of child development passes.
• we have cut a bunch of molars (I say "we" because after many nights up rocking him through teething discomfort, I feel as if I am also part of the process although he was the one doing all the hard work).  He is now sporting the full set of 1-year molars along with all 8 teeth in front.  Next up are eye teeth and the 2-year molars before he has his full set of baby teeth.
• he is sleeping well, although he tends to still wake up to eat once a night at least 3-4 nights a week. When he does, we give him a 4 oz bottle of toddler formula and he is quickly back to sleep.  His sleeping does get disturbed with teething, though.  I think that's pretty normal, though.