Here's our little man at 18 months! Well, I think it was about a week before he was officially 18 months. I haven't been the best at getting pictures of him lately. Isn't he getting so big and even more handsome? We just love having him in our family! We're excited to see him continue to learn and grow and become a big brother! :)
As for language, he is finally starting to say words that we can understand! He's always been a babbler. He loves to talk, talk, talk. But just around the time he turned 18 months, he repeated "bye-bye" after I said it. Lately, we've been asking him to look at us while we say the word. You can tell he is concentrating on how the sounds are made when we say them and then he takes a whack at it and does pretty well most the time. One day he just said "cracker" and the other day he said "tickle" on his own. He'll say "tickle, tickle" and start tickling his feet. It's so cute! He also says "Daddy" perfectly. Some other words that he is saying are more, car, go, dog (daw), up, down (dow), Elmo (eh-mo), banana (na-na), two, "what's that?" (uh dat?), and I am sure I am forgetting a few others, but he is doing so well! We are even more excited for when he can tell us what he wants or needs, so he won't get frustrated with us. :) He also like to count... it goes a little bit like this *starts pointing at things* " un....two....two....dor...two" basically he loves the number two. He's so silly!
So, since it's been so long since I've done one of these things, I'm just going to list off some things about Ryker to make it quick and easy. This post is already getting pretty long!!!
- Ryker loves giving people hugs
- He loves to climb, especially off and on chairs
- He LOVES LOVES LOVES to be outside. Any chance he can get, he'll beg to go out there. It's been raining for like a week here, so he's been going a little crazy
- He loves the gymnastics room at the YMCA. We get to go during open gym, and he can go in and jump on the tramps and do anything he wants in there!
- He loves to color
- Loves ELMO
- His foot is now a 6 1/2. He went from a 5 to a 6 1/2. Big boy!
- He loves to take tissues and blow his nose (he breaths in and out, haha)
- He loves to put shoes on.
- We make veggie drinks a lot in our blendtec (that thing can get loud), and he covers his ears when we run it. He loves the veggie drinks, too!
- One time we were playing in the backyard, and he was playing with a tennis racket, and he started strumming it and singing!
- He loves to sing! We sing hymns every night with our hymn books, and he'll open it and start singing his own song. Last night his song went a little like this....ya, ya, tickle, tickle. HILARIOUS.
- When we say it's time for prayers, he folds his arms. Sometimes we'll ask him if he wants to say it, and we tell him to "say this and say that.." and he giggles almost like he is shy or something. Then he tries to say "amen." It is such an amazing thing to see our child learning to pray. I'm glad that it is something that we can start from the time our children are born, so that it is second nature to them! :)
- He loves to play hide and seek and be chased
- He has recently started loving showers...actually prefers those over baths
- He loves to turn the faucet on and off and wash his hands
- Ryker is a very strong kid. He can throw a bouncy ball higher than I can! He's got quite the arm! We joke that he will be a baseball pitcher! haha
- He loves to build with legos, play with cars, and throw balls (he's ALL boy) He can hold his own weight too... He's 30 pounds. I can hardly lift him!!! haha
Here's another picture of the cutie to finish this blog post off!
1 comment:
He's the cutest! It's so crazy how fast he's learning! I love hearing kids try to talk. It sounds like they are saying something really important and it just melts my heart. Have fun at Disney World!
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