.18 month old little buddy

This Ames of ours has grown and grown and grown. You know, just as all babies do, but it really seems to us like he’s grown at an elevated speed. He is so much bigger and heavier than all the other babies we know around his age... (for the record, he's 97th percentile for ht. (33 3/4") and 75th for wt. (27lbs))

Ames talks and talks all the day long and he repeats anything and everything that he feels like. Some of his favorite phrases right now are “stop eet”, “pweees”, “tank-oo da-da”, “nack?”, "check eet" (meaning he wants to check if the windows are cold by gently placing the back of his hand on the glass)… I could go on. He likes to tell jokes too. He’ll just start jibber-jabbering then yell “funny!” and he throws his head back laughing.

He points out all the animals and their sounds all day. He calls bugs “buggy” for some reason. Whenever we’re outside he looks at the sky for “tweet-tweet’s”, airplanes, and he can always spot the moon somehow. Sometimes we’re out there in the middle of the day and he looks up and yells “MOON!” I chuckle that he thinks he sees the moon, and then I look up and there it is. This kid knows his stuff and I want to know who taught him all of this??

His favorite toys change day by day. He usually rotates around between his current favorites though. His matchbox dinosaur car set, toy hammer, his horse and cow figurines, cars, the balloons left over from Air’s birthday, his play house, an old basketball player figurine we all lovingly call “Pippen”, and my iphone of course.

 

Out of no where one day last month Ames became obsessed with his binki for the first time in his life. I let him have it for a few days because it was so weird to hear him asking for it. I thought it would be a short phase, but here we are, still hearing him ask “beekee?” throughout the day. So weird.

We have had so much fun lately introducing Ames to some of the movies we grew up with. He is a HUGE fan of Lion King, Jungle Book, Lady and the Tramp, “Hop Hop” (Looney Tunes), Oliver and Company, and pretty much anything animal themed. haha

At the end of the day we have jammie time, we brush teeth (he hates brushing his teeth and just cries “all done?” the whole time), we have family kisses, and then it is the simplest thing to put Ames to bed. I take him to his room and rock him while he reaches around my neck and pulls himself real close and falls asleep so fast. He is such a good boy, he sleeps 12 whole hours most every night.

Air’s dad asked what we did to deserve such a good little guy… I really can’t think of anything, but Heavenly Father knew we needed some help, and we have been so blessed by him giving us Ames.

Air and I are constantly talking about how much FUN he is. Life could not be more fun than this time right now. Could it?