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| Grandpa Dan taught D how to put his hands in his pockets. :) |
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| What can I say, the boy loves wagon rides? |
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| At the Children's Museum... |
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| And surprise, surprise, we found come cars! |
The last six months have meant huge changes for D, mainly with his speech and communication growing leaps and bounds. I can't even count the words in his vocabulary any more...everything is pretty much fair game, sentences and expressing preferences too! He also recognizes people and will remember their names after they've left.
Last night Daryn and I were looking back at photos and videos since his first birthday and I can't even believe how much he's grown out of a baby face and into a little toddler. His voice isn't so high pitched and he has thinned out and shot up. Makes me want to cling to every single moment because they are all flying by too fast.
I can't wait for this summer. Running outside, parks, swimming. Each season for the next few years will be an entirely new experience as Dawson grows, and what fun to watch it unfold through his eyes.
At 18 months, Dawson...
- Spends his days playing with his train set, reading books or watching the cars, trucks, "seni-trucks", tankers, buses, flat beds, "Humma" pass by on the highway out our front window. With each visit with GG, his vehicle vocabulary expands.
- Will sleep in a bit later if he stays up a bit later at night. It used to be the later past his bedtime, the earlier he would get up. But the switch has been made. What a great tool for a parent to use at will... :)
- Loves to put all his cars, trucks, trains, etc. up on the kitchen table to display. It doesn't matter how many times we correct him to not, he still does. I am tossing the towel in on this one!
- Drives his cars through his legs too. It's darn cute...
- Sleeps 12-13 hours at night and naps 3 hours in the afternoon
- Tries to escape to the outdoors any chance he gets. Literally. We have to keep the doors locked so he doesn't go out without us. Doesn't matter that spring has decided to stick around yet, this boy knows what and where he want to be.
- Never stays in the same place for more than 30 seconds unless he's sleeping, food is involved or Cars, Sesame Street or Mickey Mouse is on.
- Loves, I'm talking LOVES juice.
