20 Months Old

1. His afternoon nap has gotten shorter. He's averaging 40-60 minutes these days, but he's sleeping in a bit later in the morning. He usually gets up between 6:45-7:00 although he still gets up at 6:30 some days. Every once in a while he sleeps in past 7:00.

2. He got his 12th tooth (on the top) shortly after he turned 19 months old.

3. The rash on his face hasn't been showing up nearly as often the past month as it did the previous two months.

4. He LOVES basketball. If he sees other kids or adults playing basketball, he grabs a basketball and tries to run out onto the court. The fact that he's more than 3 feet shorter than everyone else on the court doesn't phase him in the least. We shall see what he thinks of soccer once we start going to Nadia's games on Saturday mornings.

5. He's saying more and more words. I have stopped keeping track. Some new ones include fish, diaper, too (for example he said "I love you too" after I said "I love you"), and car.

6. He's discovered it's a lot of fun to run around at the playground.

7. He weighs exactly 25 pounds (gained 13 ounces over the past month), which puts him at the 28th percentile for weight. He's a growing boy!

8. He's crazy about the dryer. He goes in it multiple times a day almost every day.

9. When I ask Nadia and Ian to go get their shoes on, Oliver is usually the first child to go and get his sneakers from the shoe rack and bring them to me so I can put them on his feet.

10. "If you're happy and you know it" and "Row, row, row your boat" are two of his favorite songs.