16 months

our little boy is growing fast and more like a toddler and less like a baby every day.

what he's up to:

• Keeps adding more words and signs. Words:momma, daddy, cat, meow, ruff-ruff for dog, un-oh, wow, no, balloon, vroom for car and airplane, quack-quack, duck, bus, socks, book, bath, ball, belly button, yellow (he doesn't know what this means but he loves to say the word) Signs: milk, eat, hungry, more, hurt, cereal, banana, dog, cracker, shoes, flower, all done, and potty (doesn't know what this means either).
• Loves to find his belly button. Also, nose and ears.
• Loves to be silly, be tickled and snorts when he laughs
• Starting to eat more foods. His favorite food right now is blueberries. He also likes a lot of not so good for you foods - chocolate and french fries. He also really likes it when we go out to eat and he gets to drink milk from a plastic cup with a straw.
• Easy to put to bed. Still goes to bed early though this past week its been closer to 630 instead of 530 or 6. When he starts to act tired we ask him if he wants to go night-night. If he's ready he'll repeat back night-night and run to the gate. When we undo the gate he runs to his room so that we can change him. After we say night-night to all his animal friends, he has some milk, sometimes a book and into the crib he goes.
• Loves to get attention when we go out. He waves at everyone to get them to wave back. If he really has their attention, he'll do high-5s with them and blow kisses.
• Loves to be outside - playing in the yard, wagon rides, trips to the playground, walking to the mailbox.
• He's starting to play with his stuffed animals. He'll give them kisses and hugs and carry them around with him. His favorite seems to be a little puppy - this toy was a gift to him from the Ritz Carlton where we stayed for our anniversary when I was pregnant.
• Finally getting more teeth. All 4 molars are making their way in but he still has gaps in the front.