Happy 22 Months! Right now you are running around outside exploring with Aunt Maren. You are having so much fun with her. I'm jealous I can't join you. I've been on strict horizontal bed rest for almost 3 weeks now and we've decided to move in with Grandma Jill. Maren is here helping us pack, clean, and move out there. She just moved in there, too. They will be your stand-in parents for the time being. I'm not supposed to be upright in order to keep you baby twin sisters safe and healthy in my belly for another few months, and daddy is studying really hard for the California Bar Exam... so, we needed some help with family to keep you happy and taken care of.
It breaks my heart to watch everyone else get to chase you around and take you to the park. But, I know this is only temporary and I can hardly wait for your little sisters to get here so we can all go and play together.
Here in Laramie you have been going to a new friends house every day for a few hours, and you have been having a blast. You love your friends and you have been so good for those watching you. You just giggle and play and copy the other kids. Everyone's report is the same, "He's sooooo easy!" You really are such a good boy.
We've moving to Park City in a couple days and I'm sure you'll love living with Grandma and Grandpa even more than seeing all your friends here. They just adore you.
You at 22 months:
- Your vocabulary continues to astound me. You pick up new words everywhere. You try explaining things to us and I feel so bad when I can't understand you... most the time we know what you're saying though.
- You love buses. We sing the Wheels on the Bus everywhere we go, you ask for it by saying "bus" and rolling your arms round and round. You just got a school bus as a gift from someone who watched you because you held onto their bus the whole time you were at their place. This morning you woke up asking for your bus and last night you fell asleep with the bus in your hand. When you say "bus" you articulate clearly and say your "s" with your tongue between your teeth, kind of like a lisp. It's so cute.
- Your new train is your other favorite toy. You could watch it go around the track over and over. You'll pretend to put things in its' path then yank them off the track right before the train gets to it.
- You are full of giggles and if we just smile at you, you start laughing.
- You love your dinosaur dvd and ask for it every day. Since I'm on bed rest, we have watched it a lot.
- You're potty trained as long as we're at home. You gave up other places so we just put a diaper on you when we go out.
- You love hugs and kisses. You kiss my belly saying "babies"... not sure if you understand there are babies in there. :) You always climb on me, while I'm lying down on bed rest, and just lay on me hugging me. I love you.
- We can't really do laundry or any project really, you like to throw the clothes all over the place or dig everything out of boxes.
- Your run is a bouncy run on your tip toes... it's so funny. Everyone loves it and comments on it.
- When you kiss you do big puckered lips.
- You love to crawl around the floor acting like a horse, dog, lion, froggy, etc.
- You love playing in the sink, you love water and pouring it between multiple containers.
- You love milk and juice, "muck" and "jjuu". You do not like drinking water.
- You love going outside, if you hear us say "outside" you run to the door and knock on it until we leave. You love rocks, dirt, and exploring. You chase rabbits and birds and point out different cars, trucks, and buses.
- You love singing together. Your favorites are: Wheels on the bus, 3 Monkeys swing in the tree and the alligator snaps the monkey out of the tree, Head Shoulders Knees & Toes (you laugh super hard when we go super fast), Popcorn Popping, Twinkle Little Star, My Heavenly Father Loves Me (our nightly lullaby).
- You like honey on your peanut butter toast.
- You like sharing your vocabulary and are always pointing out your elbow or cars or toes or chairs, etc. When you give a kiss, you say kiss. When you pee, you yell "pee pee". When you touch my hair you say, "hair". It's pretty adorable. You're so smart.
- You love watching bus videos or videos of babies.
- You love babies, we hope you love your sisters as much. You lay down and stare at babies and point out their eyes, nose, toes, etc.
- You love skyping grandma jill (video chat on the computer) and you just want to see all her animals the whole time... ducks, sheep, giraffe.
- You love any animal and go crazy for dogs at the park. You neigh every time we drive by the horse statues around Laramie - you know where they are.
- You ask for daddy a lot more during the day now.
- You like brushing your teeth and will bring your toothbrush and toothpaste to me at random times throughout the day.
- You now call us mommy and daddy, instead of momma and dadda. It's so sweet.
We will never stop loving you, you are the most fantastic, entertaining, sweet, giggly little boy there is. We love you forever. You can do no wrong in our eyes... I, honestly, have a hard time disciplining your because I just want you to be happy 100% of the time. I'm learning though because I know it's for your own good. I love love love you!!! Happy 22 months my precious baby boy.
Love,
Mommy
