Friday, January 28, 2011

Eighteen


My big boy turned 18 months last week. He is a joy, and a terror, and a busy bee and we love him so much. Tantrums began about a month ago, and I'm still not quite sure the appropriate way to react. Mostly I just try to stifle my giggles. He has gotten quite cuddly when he's tired, but during the day he is go go go. He is a total daddy's boy right now, and he says "dada" every ten minutes of the day. He seems to be on his own time table for talking and his only words are "cheese", "keys", "hot" and "outside" (besides the usual "mama" "dada" variety). He loves piggy back rides and wrestling and dancing. He is obsessed with keys and asks for them as soon as someone enters the house. He would spend his entire day sitting in the front seat of my car putting the keys in and out of the ignition and pretending to drive. (I have a little anxiety about this since his dad drove into the neighbors house when he was two - lol). He loves taking baths and floating on his back in the big tub. If I try to get anything done (there's lots to be done in the new house!!) I usually end up paying for it with a big mess. As I type he dumped a bag of potato chips on the ground :) He is getting tall and thin and I have a hard time keeping him in clothes that fit.

He gets to be more and more fun every day, and we love him to pieces.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

♥ this. We like to have lunch with our Daddy too. Though it is neither free nor gourmet we generally stop by about once a week or every other week. We purposely bought our house just down the road from Jeff's work too. Its so nice.

Dale & Lynn Leishman said...

Oh, I miss him...and you too!

brenley said...

it has been way to long since i visited your blog. WHO IS THAT 18 month old? crazy how old he is, i didn't hardly recognize him!! baby beck is history! what fun things you've been up to..mystery party looked fabulous, glad brendon is loving his new job, and more importantly,....CONGRATULATIONS on baby girl!!! how exciting!!!!!