18 months

18 months

Holy cow, it feels like I haven’t written in a million years. I guess that is because so much has happened with Lucas in the last 3 months. Since our last blog, many things have changed. I guess the first thing to change was Lucas was blessed to have another cousin join his group of friends. My sister Nicole had a beautiful baby girl named Neko on May 1^st. We were so excited when we were able to finally go and meet her. The next thing that happened was Lucas took his first plane ride, he did amazing!! He also got to swim in a real pool for the first time on that trip. Then, I started summer break, so Lucas and mommy stay home together all day. Which is amazing and wonderful, and a whole lot of work!!! The last HUGE thing that has happened in Lucas’ life is he became a big brother!!! We won’t talk too much about that one in this blog, but we are so excited to have little brother around to hug and kiss and steal his pacifier. Our little man is getting so big and so grown up, it’s hard to believe all he has accomplished in 18 months of life.

17 months

Stats:

Height - 2'11" - 99th percentile

Weight - 31lbs 2oz - 98th percentile

Head - 19.5 inches - 94th percentile

16 months

Likes:

Getting into trouble – I feel like he has a 6^th sense about what he is absolutely NOT supposed to touch or play with, and that becomes his mission, to figure out how he can get to that thing without getting caught.

Running – His uncle makes fun of him for his running stance, but he sure can move fast when he decides to get moving.

Outside – If anyone even mentions the outside, or someone opens a door, he thinks that he is going to get to go out and play.

His doggies – I’m not so sure they feel the same way about him, but he loves to pet them and hug them and play “chase” with them all day long… eventually they wander as far away from him as they can.

Water – this last month Lucas and I did mommy and me swim lessons that he just loved to go to. I can’t say the same for myself, but it was worth it to see the smile on his face every time we got into the water.

Helping with the dishes – he thinks it’s the greatest when mommy is unloading the dishwasher, because he will come over and grab things and hand them to me, he will even go put things where they go if they are in his reach.

Opening/Shutting/Locking doors – sadly because Lucas is so dang tall he is able to do all of those things, the other day I was out of town, and Vinnie informed me Lucas not only locked daddy out of the bedroom but also the master bathroom, so Vinnie had to pick two locks just to get to Lucas.

His brother – every morning he tells his little brother hi and then gives him a hug and a kiss. Then throughout the day he will stop playing and run over and go love on him again. He also really likes to make him giggle.

First time in the pool!

Water fun!

Dislikes:

Meat – the kid has never been a picky eater in his life, but now that we serve him the same thing we eat every night, we have found out that he wants nothing to do with meat. Please keep telling me he will eventually grow out of it, I sure hope he does!

Being told no – he is definitely a little bit spoiled, and so he “thinks” he can get away with anything… so he does not respond well to being told he can’t

His car seat – he hates hates hates being confined in the car seat, he has figured out how to squeeze his arms out… it drives me absolutely NUTS!

Diaper change – I don’t know if this is a sign that he is ready to move forward with potty training, or if he just hates to hold still(I’m going with the second idea).

His brother – as much as he loves his new little brother… he also hates sharing the attention. If something is wrong with brother, something automatically becomes wrong with Lucas. Luckily for us, both mommy and daddy are here to help each boy!

2nd hair cut! His hair grows so fast!

Accomplishments:

Singing – Lucas has officially mastered singing songs. He can sing the tune of “Let it Go”, “ABC song”, and “Twinkle Twinkle” and many many other tunes that we have no idea what are.

Real words – it seems like every day his is gaining more and more words in his vocabulary. He is pretty cute with his mixed baby/real word conversations.

Climbing – he is capable of getting pretty much anywhere he wants… even if you don’t want him there. The other day I put him down for a nap and then I heard screaming coming from his room. He had climbed over the crib and was hanging for dear life on the edge hoping to not fall off.

Moved into a big boy chair at the table – I don’t know if this is really an accomplishment, but we are pretty excited about the change!

Movement – this kid loves to run, and walk backwards, and crawl backwards, and do just about anything you can think of to be mobile. The only time of day when we can get him to stop is nap/bed time… which in reality he doesn’t stop then either. We will lay him down at one end of his crib and he always ends up somewhere completely different when we go get him.

I’m sure there is much much more that I should be writing for him, but he growing so fast I feel like I can’t keep up with him. 

Meeting cousin Neko, and of course Dylan is there too!

Somebody loves Batman(it's daddy)