16 Months

16 months old and cute as can be.

Here is what we are up against at this point:

Lots of really cute smiles and generally happy/easy going days

Still lots of "bah-ball" and "shoo" (shoot, that is)

and the start to some dribbling

 fridge basketball continues

and non stop running (legs still bowed), climbing, dancing, playing, and unfortunately hitting in the face when he's excited. Any suggestions on how to break that habit?? Not a good one... and speaking of climbing, he climbed/fell out of his crib 5 days ago for the first time. we were planning on keeping him in the crib until he was 3, but might not happen that way...

 continues to play in the tupperware drawer and empties it about 8x a day. About time to childproof that one.

Loves to sing songs and any music

Especially "popcorn popping" & "Book of Mormon stories" right now with the hand motions

lots of playing outside. still doesn't have much interest in TV or movies.

He just started switching to 1 nap a day last week. He still gets tired towards the end of the day but he's been good with 1 nap so far (even though it's usually only 1.5-2 hours right now). Usually sleeps about 12 hours a night. 8-8 or 9-9. (I am treasuring my sleep each night as I know when baby girl gets here I can kiss that goodbye!) He is also communicating a lot more everyday. Loves "Signing Time" and is especially good at signing "please" and "more." Tries to say and copy lots of words, though most are still very vague approximations. He shakes his head "yes" now and it is the most adorable thing. Looks like he is bowing to his sensei or something! He loves his dad so much and runs to him saying "dada" anytime he sees him. And gets really sad whenever Chris leaves. We've started giving him time-outs (sort of) or being more firm with him ("no hitting") and he gets super sad. Makes me feel bad, but I'm happy he understands something he did made us unhappy. He is so so sweet with his tiny baby cousin Jude and baby cousin Nora. Loves to hold them, kiss them, have his face close to theirs... I hope he is just as sweet with his soon coming baby sister. He is such a fun, friendly boy and gets along with just about anyone, young or old, girl or boy...he just wants to be friends! Such a fun age he is at, hard to imagine loving another kid as much as this one!