It’s been too long since we last blogged so here are a few things that have happpend the past month or so…

Your first goose egg happened at the end of October. You fell off the park bench outside at daycare and got a pretty good knock on the back of your head. Had mommy all shades of worried! Luckily the worst that came of it was a little headache and senstivity for a day or so.

In early Novmeber, you spent 3 nights in a row at Grandma Abby’s and Grandpa Terry’s house. The longest time you’ve ever been away from home. You had a BLAST and and even got to go to the park with your cousin Colton! It was hard for mommy & daddy to be away from you that long but we took advantage of the free time by having a date night – dinner and a movie! We had fun but we were sure glad to get you back home!

We also had a couple of fun family days! The first one was at the Blue Angels air show. You had a lot of fun running around and seeing all of the airplanes. Miraculously, you managed to fall asleep and take a pretty good nap – even with the constant sound of fighter jets flying overhead. Very impressive!

Our other fun family day was at the Fort Worth Zoo. You got to see all the fun animals and even got to hear the Lions roar! You weren’t a huge fan of the bird cage where we got to buy food on a stick and walk into a room with about 10,000 birds…it was a little overwhelming!

You are maturing so much – even in just the past couple of weeks! Your commuincation skills are supurb – even though it’s a little difficult to understand exactly what you are “saying”, you have NO trouble communicating. Your can officially utilize the word “no” in cotext and the number of words you say and understand is growing by leaps and bounds and now includes: bath, shower, shoe, car, birdie, clock, please, thank you, more, banana, airplane, puppy, kitty cat, bite, cheese, cracker, cookie, all gone, and shoes. You will say the sounds of some animals: puppy (woof, woof), kitty cat (meow), owl (who, who), & cow (moo).

You’ve learned to say hi and bye in context and you recently started hugging and kissing. It’s SOOOOO sweet! Your hair is ridiculously long and pretty – it has so much body, just a bit of curl, and beautiful natural highlights.

You passed your 18 month check up with flying colors. You weigh about 28 pounds and are almost 33 inches long – both in the 90 to 95th percentile. Your head circumference is almost 20 cm – still off the charts. 🙂

You love to sing and dance. Your current favorites are “Wheels on the Bus”, “Old MacDonald”, and “ABC’s”, although you LOVE all songs and singing. You are even able to say/hum the first few tunes of A, B, C, D…luckily, I think you got my sense of tone and musical ability! Even daddy is happy for that!

Oh, your dad and are have booked a vacation – just the two of us! It’ll be our first vacation together (besides the Ranch) since February 2007! We are going on a cruise (our favorite!) in late February. We’ll be gone for a week. We leave out of Galveston and go to Cozumel, Grand Cayman, & Jamaica – we are both SUPER excited!

Anyway, we are just cherishing every moment of this stage in your life. You are soooooo much FUN and we love you to pieces!