twenty months

AUSTIN, YOU ARE TWENTY MONTHS!!

• you weigh 22 lbs and 6 oz.
• you are 33.75 inches tall
• you are still in a size 3 diaper.

• you are in a size 5 shoe, and you can still wear a couple pairs of 4's.
• you are wearing mostly 18 month clothes.
• you have learned so many new words!  every day you come up with something new, and try to repeat words after us.  today, you learned the word "shower."

• you are getting so independent.  you want to put your shoes on yourself, brush your own teeth, get things yourself, etc.
• your favorite snacks right now are: bananas, cheerios, raisins, yogurt, fruit bars, and crackers.
• you are doing much better at drinking more milk.

• you ask me at least 3 times a day for a cookie.  you say "coo-coo?"  :)
• you love to play ball, and throw it or push it back and forth.
• you are not afraid of the dark!

• you graduated to a toddler bed this week, and you are doing so great with it!
• you recently started saying cheese to the camera.
• you have just been taking 1 nap a day lately, but you really need 2.  you are so cranky, but when i put you to bed, you get up and play no matter how many times i go in there and make you get back in bed.

• you love to go on walks around our new neighborhood.
• you climb up everything!!  i've started calling you little monkey.
• you go to bed around 8pm, and sleep until 7:30ish.

one year ago...

"for you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.  i praise you because i am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, i know that full well." -psalm 139:13-14