18 Month Stats

So, I just realized that I never put up his 15 month stats so here they are:

Length: 32.5 inches - 88%
Weight: 24 lb. 10 oz. - 53%
Head: 48.75 cm - 89%

Now his 18 month stats:

Length: 34.5 inches - 90%
Weight: 25 lb 15 oz - 50%
Head: 49 cm - 76%

He is still one very tall boy. He only put on a little over 1 pound in 3 months. I swear we feed him! All the time! Brandon for sure thought he would be 30 lbs. Not even close.

18 Months

Well, our sweet little boy is a year and a half. Austin is such a smart kid but he tries to push the limits. Lately he tries to climb up the couch onto the island. He thinks that he can just climb up and grab whatever he wants. Another thing is that he wants to look out the windows all the time but the blinds are down; the slats are open but he wants the blinds pulled up, so he tries himself. ;)

Playing with homemade playdough

Here is what Austin can do:
-Identify his head, feet, hands, belly, legs, arms, eyes, ears, mouth, teeth, and nose.
-Knows the sounds that a dog, cat, horse, pig, monkey, duck, lion, bear, and bird make. Sometimes cow as well.
-He tries to jump but he ends up bouncing
-Use a fork pretty well, and getting much neater with a spoon
-Identify a car, tree, bird, grass, house, dog, flower, bug when we are out on a walk
-He will follow directions like get a book, find your water, clean up your toys, if he is in the right mood. ;)
-Can pull up his pants to just under his bum - progress!
-Is mostly potty-trained. He uses it to go pee-pee, but he holds in his poop until nap time so he doesn't have to do it in the potty.
-Climb on Gus - poor dog, he is soooo patient with Austin.
-Help unload the dishwasher, and load the dryer. He is very good at handing things to us and not dropping them on the floor.
-We say one, two, and he says three!

Passing out after playing hard with the Davis kids. We love their family!

His vocabulary is just taking off. Here is a list of what he can say:
mommy, daddy, puppy, duck, more, thank you (tank coo), bottle, more, please (pease), water (wawawawawa), blue (bo), purple, cheese, chicken (chicky), bear, bubble, spoon (poon), dinner (ninner), banana (nana), Jesus, church, day, yes, no, off, out, pee-pee, good, hot, cold, cool, down (dow), eat, yuck, baby, Pappy (what he calls Brandon's dad), Meme (what he calls my sister Amy), Gus, go, car, book, blanket (bookat), bird, dog, tree, done, ball, shoe, Gabba (when he wants to watch Yo Gabba Gabba!), keys, hat, bye, night (nigh-nigh), cookie, cracker, yummy, okay (k), house, bug, push, this, that, turtle, piece, bite, bonk, bottle, door and a few more.

Splash pad in South Ogden. He was sooo happy! Water baby for sure.

He also has a few signs down: milk, please, more, all done, hot, and cold.
We are working on: Thank you, baby, mommy, daddy, water, food, eat, drink.

Trying to put on his shoes. So helpful.

 We sure love this kid! He is such a good kid. We are very blessed to have him. We are excited to see what he will do next.

p.s. I will post his stats on Friday after his doctors appointment.

The best

Can I just say that the best thing to see after a long day is your sweet child laying on his bed, popping his head up and blowing kissing to you? Seriously, it just warms my heart every time Austin does that. No matter how bad the day went, or how grumpy we both are by the end of it, Austin brings a smile to my face every night.

On his way

Well, last night as I was getting Austin ready for bed he was standing at the potty and saying, "pee pee" so I asked if he wanted to use the potty. He said "k" and shook his head yes. I quickly stripped him down and put him on the potty. After about two minutes he went potty! He was so proud of himself. I told Brandon and he got really excited. However, we decided that we weren't going to push him to potty train yet because he isn't even a year and a half.

This morning I got him up, changed his diaper and then took him into our room. I put him on the bed and he started grabbing himself, sorry for that detail, but that is how he is showing that he is becoming aware of what is going on down there. I asked him if he wanted to use the potty and he said, "k" again and shook his head. I whisked him away and quickly stripped him down, put him on the potty and he didn't do anything, which is totally fine.

Later we were downstairs in the living room and the door to the bathroom was closed he walked over to it and said "pee." I opened the door and he used the potty again! I was so proud of him. I am not saying he is potty training, or that we are going to start but at least he is showing interest and understands what the potty is for. Who knows, this might continue and he will be potty trained by the end of the summer, however, I doubt that.

Big Boy Bed!

Well, we made the switch, Austin is now in a big boy bed. We pulled the side off of his crib just to see how he would do. Our doctor told us to switch him before 18 months so that it is easier for him since he doesn't know how to open doors.

 

The first night was so easy. He never climbed out the bed and never fell out. The second night also went great. Last night he fell out like 4 times! I think that the funniest part is that he can easily climb in and out of the bed but he will sit in the bed and cry to be taken out. He won't climb out at all! We will see how long that lasts. He doesn't even get out and play in his ball tent, which we can't seem to keep him out of.

Every night we have been going on a walk as a family. Austin eats, gets a bath, all ready for bed, and then we go on a walk. Don't you just love the stuffed animal? He just has to bring his dog with him.

Sitting on the floor watching Daddy! This is a normal occurrence in our house. Austin will just snuggle up on Daddy and watch whatever he is doing.

Date Night

For teacher appreciation I received some gift cards; one to the movies, and one to Cafe Rio. Well tonight we decided to use them.

Since Brandon has the Z running we drove that. He was telling me that he was surprised the fuel gauge was still on full and that it would probably drop down quickly to empty. Well, after dinner (which was delicious) we were headed out the movie. As the light turned green we started to turn into the intersection, then the car died! We were blocking traffic and people weren't all that happy with us, but there was nothing to do.

Brandon got out to push the car, and three very nice men came to help. Once the car was out of traffic Brandon tried to figure out what was wrong. I said it was out of gas, which he replied to with a very firm NO! I told him that we could walk into Wal-Mart since it was right there, get a gas tank, walk to a gas station, and see if that really was the problem. He agreed.

Silly man! I was right the whole time. The car was out of gas. We missed the movie since we were cutting it close anyways. After everything was all settled we would have been an hour late to the theater. We went and got crepes for dessert, then headed home. On the way we stopped by the high school so I could have a driving lesson. I didn't do that great, but that's fine right? Stick is hard!

Well, that is all. It was a good night, very adventurous to say the least. I love hanging out with this man even when things don't work out, he always tries to make things great!

Patience

If you ever need some patience, tell your spouse to have one of the cars out of service for 8 weeks! That's right, 8!

I am not joking. This project of rebuilding the engine on the 240Z took forever. Things just kept going wrong. It seemed like every time we were just about done something would happen that would set us back a week or two. We rented an engine hoist three different times and only used it the last time. I think that we have spent enough money on renting that we could have bought one for ourselves.

It took all my patience to not get mad at Brandon. However, by the end my patience was done. I wasn't up for taking any more set backs. I made sure Brandon knew I was frustrated, but I did it the nicest way I could.

This past weekend Brandon's parents were wonderful enough to come out to visit. His dad helped him all day on Saturday work on the car, and by 6:20 it was running. It was even his parent's anniversary and they spent the whole day with us, and even went to dinner with us. Thank you for coming and helping! If it wasn't for them coming it wouldn't be running.