22 months and growing

Today you are 21 months old, hard to believe I started this blog about 2 years ago in the hospital waiting to have you.  You are growing up so fast, it is so hard to believe.  There are so many things that have changed about you in the last couple of months since I have updated this blog.  You are a big time runner these days and won't let anything get in your way.  I have to be careful when we go out somewhere if I let you down or you will take off running.  You have cut all your molars now and are trying to cut the ones in between.  You are still a big fan of bop and ask for it all the time, sorry to tell you it won't be around much longer :(  You have really gotten into playing outside since it has gotten warmer.  You love to ride your tractor, dig in the dirt, play in the water, throw balls, and just be a boy.  You love your riding toys when you are inside and you are way too busy to read a book with me :(  You have never been that into listening to me read a book, but you love to sit and look (and attempt to read) at them for hours at your little table in your room.  You really like to color these days although it is more like just drawing lines.  In fact last night a crayon made it into the washer and ruined a bunch of clothes.  You still have a fascination with balls and will carry them wherever you go trying to get someone to play with you.  You are really into tv and you have a few favorites which you call by name:  Barney (Bar-e), Toy Story (Buzz), and Cars (car).  We watch these wherever we go and you love to watch tv in the car.  You have a new Buzz that makes noise when you soar through the air and you love to play with him.  You also have a Barney you love to play with.  You are starting to show signs of actually acting out things you have seen as if you are pretending.  It is quite amusing to watch you play like Buzz.  You love to sing anytime you hear music and you love going to "chuch" to sing.  When the preaching starts, you need your snacks though :)  You don't keep your attention on one thing for very long and you are a super active little boy.  You are used to getting your way most of the time and are quite a pistol when you don't.  You are head strong and we battle with you at times to keep you in line.  You know what you want and you don't give up easily, but hey I guess that is part of the reason you made it into this world.  You have had spells with your eating over the last couple of months, but right now you barely eat enough to keep a bird alive and there is literally no food that I can expect you to eat every time I give it to you (except cookies and fruit snacks).  You really love turkey sandwiches, carrots, cookies, pudding, fruit snacks, mashed potatoes, and cereal.  Your favorite drinks are apple juice, milk, tea, and gatorade.  You could live off of just your "juices".  Everything is juice, no matter what it is.  You like to be on the go.  When we wake up and get dressed it is time to leave, so I have to be ready before getting you ready.  You love staying with Meme during the day and you are well behaved according to her except for the occasional push.  When we talk about it pushing you show me how to push and then shake your head and finger while saying no-no so we know that you know better despite the fact that you still "pusssh" sometimes.  You still love to be on the go no matter where we are going although while shopping you like to choose whether your stroller is sitting up or laid back.  You tell us down or up when you are ready to change.  You hate high chairs and most of the time you hate boosters.  We have resorted to all kinds of things to get you to eat and sometimes eat in the living room even though we never really have before.  You are pretty good with a spoon and fork these days (when we can get you to eat).  We don't have the mess we had gotten accustomed to anymore.  You still sleep with us and go to bed early.  We lay down with you while you go to sleep and you have to have your arm up my shirt sleeve to fall asleep.  It is one of the sweetest things to cuddle with you at night, it's the only time you stop!  You drink lots of milk (only thing that keeps you alive) and some juice and gatorade.  You usually take 1 2-3 hour nap and I usually rock you at nap time.  You no longer get your bop except at bedtime and naptime so brushing your teeth has become easy.  You have to brush your teeth to get bop and so you brush like a champ.  You are pretty good at doing it yourself, but I help to be sure they are clean.  You no longer have to wear your SMO's and have gotten a few new pairs of shoes because we have never been able to just put you in regular ones until now.  Last time you went to the dr, you weighed 27 pounds with all your clothes on and you were 35 inches without your shoes on.  You have doubled your birth height now, yay Zeke.  We expect you to be tall like your daddy, you are tall for your age.  You are no longer a baby as bad as I hate to admit it.  You are a little boy that has your own ideas and opinions.  You have a sweet spirit about you that I know God has a plan for.  You love to say thank you, please and occasionally sorry.  You haven't mastered the art of saying your welcome but instead you say thank you every time someone does something for you or if you do something they say thank you for.  We are about to start potty training, what fun!  That is just another step that shows me how much you are growing up.  You use enough words to communicate that you don't get easily frustrated and to be real honest you haven't really been in the "terrible twos" yet.  I hope you don't since we communicate well.  You have started using a few phrases but you don't put alot of words together yet.  You say What's that? and I don't know along with just a few others.  I think you will really be talking by the time you are two, WOW that is in just three months.  I love you so much and I love watching you take each new step in your life.