22 Months

Happy New Year!!! We have just returned from a fun long weekend in the mountains with my family. I'll do a post on that soon. We got some great family pictures while we were up there and had a blast. I'm a little sad to be coming back to reality, but in a way, I'm ready to get back to our normal routine. I have one more day of vacation though--we realized last week that Hudson's daycare is closed tomorrow too. Definitely didn't know that!

Hudson started the new year off by hitting 22 months. There is one word to describe Hudson at 22 months and that is a COPYCAT. He copies everything--I mean EVERYTHING--you say. We were calling him a parrot this weekend because it is just so funny. He repeats every word, so he was calling himself a parrot too. :)

He is a ball full of energy. The only time he sits is when he sleeps. The rest of the time he is running around, getting into everything he shouldn't and testing our patience for sure! He LOVES taking out all of our outlet covers. So much for child proofing--it worked for a while. However, we are having a great time playing with his new toys that Santa brought. This child needed some new toys! Oh and by the way, he will tell you that Santa went back to the North Pole! My smart child!

He is communicating SO well. He is getting good at saying please and thank you, and you're welcome at the appropriate times. He has also started singing a little bit and it is so sweet. He loves singing EIEIO from Old Mcdonald. He loves his "shushic" (music) and has to have it on in the car at all times. One of his favorite things is to come up to one of us and say "Rock Baby," which means he wants you to sing Rock a Bye Baby to him and hold him like a baby. It is SO sweet!!!

We have also been discussing his gender and he knows that he is a boy and Daddy is a boy and that he is definitely NOT a girl (shakes his head no and says not a girl) and knows that I am a girl. This is just a funny conversation to have! He also tells me that he is not a baby. :( I don't know who taught him that, but it makes me cry! He will always be my baby!

He is eating almost exclusively with a fork and a spoon. We have started giving him cereal with milk in the mornings and he can do it all by himself and really enjoys it. He is not making as much of a mess like he used to and a lot of days, I don't even put a bib on him! He also knows the difference between milk and juice now (milk or juice used to be one in the same). This sounds like a good thing, but he knows what he wants and if you try to give him the wrong thing, he lets you know loud and clear that's not what he wants!

At 22 months, we just became the proud owners of...

An Elmo potty! He is no where near ready to start this process (neither am I!), but he is very intrigued by the whole potty process (he is very verbal about it!) and I thought it might be a good idea to put one in the bathroom for him to look at and sit on and know it's there, and maybe someday when he's ready, we'll start it. But, I'm definitely NOT pushing it!

We are also the proud owners of...

A booster seat! No more high chair for Hudson and life has gotten a lot better at meal time. He loves sitting at the table with us. We were struggling with him every meal getting him to sit in the high chair. I think it was just too uncomfortable for him and he didn't like not being a part of the table. This seems to be working well so far! If only the booster seat solved the veggie issue...oh well!

He's wearing mostly 3T clothes now (some 2T, but mostly 3T) and went up a whole shoe size this month to a 6.5 (still an extra wide!). He's getting so big and I just want him to slow down a little bit!