21 Months Old!

Well Clayton is 21 months old now and in three short months will be 2!! He is about 33 inches tall (maybe a little more but it is hard to get a good measurement since he won't hold still) and now weighs 25.2 lbs.

21 Months old!

Reese looks like the forgotten child back there . . .

Clayton's favorite thing is still trucks, and loves to watch a History Channel episode of Modern Marvels called Monster Trucks on Netflix (Disney's Cars is OUT and he will actually cry if I turn that movie on!) He will also watch Blue's Clues, Elmo and other Sesame Street clips, but Monster Trucks are the favorite. Every morning after breakfast he goes and turns on the TV saying "I watch" and sits on the couch and yells "crucks!" (trucks) and uses the remote to turn on the PlayStation.  One day he did say "I watch trucks" so we are starting to hear him sting two and three words together to form sentences and will also repeat just about anything. Like I ask him "did you poop?" and he said it right back to me!

He also loves his brother! When he wakes up in the morning he asks repeatedly for Reese, and has to know where he is! He says "oh Rweese" (more "w" than "r" sound) all frown-y when Reese cries, and tries to rock his car seat if he's in it and turn on the giraffe that plays nature sounds for him.

His schedule this summer has been a pretty late bed time, with bath time starting around 8:30pm. He usually sleeps until 7:30am or 8:00am, sometimes a little later, and takes one nap around 1:30pm and sleeps until about 3:30pm sometimes longer or shorter depending on how much we wore him out in the morning!

His favorite foods are oyster crackers, M&Ms (or "meows" as he calls them for some odd reason I'm not sure why),  bananas "ah-nas," spaghetti, and Peanut butter jelly sandwiches, which I call PB&J and Clayton shortened to just "a J", but some how he rolls the j when he says it and it's really cute! He also enjoys raw baby carrots dipped in ranch, hot dogs dipped in ketchup, and almost anything else you can think of that can be dipped in ranch, ketchup or barbeque sauce!

He is getting better at saying different foods he wants to eat and things he wants to do. He will go to the door and say "go walk" or "pool" to let me know what he wants with out me running through a list of options. It's very helpful! When we do go for walks, which Clayton enjoys, we either take the double stroller on a long walk, or go for a short walk and put Reese in his own stroller that holds his car seat and let Clayton walk alongside. He likes to help push the stroller and is really good about holding hands when we ask him to if a car is coming. He also likes to yell out the things he sees and hears, such as birds, trees, cars, trucks and choo choo's. He is so smart!

We have been working on a lot of things too! One is trying to have him say his name, but when you ask him what his name is, he points to himself and says "me." He still won't say grandma, but this weekend when my dad and sister watched the boys so we could go to a wedding he called my dad "g-pop!" So yesterday while on a walk he was babbling on and on, and a couple times I caught the words "g-pop" and "cat cat" (bob cat) so he must have been remembering how grandpa took him to sit in his bob cat this weekend!

We are also working on having him take off his own clothes. He can get his shirt off over his head if we start him with one arm already out!  I'm not sure why we want him to learn this, but . . .they have to learn sometime I guess.

Sorry to go on and on, but I just never want to forget these precious times. Clayton is learning so quickly and it's amazing to be able to teach him and watch him grow!

All my boys! 7/10/12