Tyler - 18 Months

Weight: 24lbs, 6oz (53rd percentile)

Length: 32" (35th percentile)

Clothing size: 18 month shirts, 12 month pants/shorts

Shoe size: Size 5

Diaper size: Size 4

Eating: Tyler LOVES milk. We really try to stick to the pediatrician's recommended 15-20 ounces a day, but he'd drink so much more if we'd let him. He also likes pizza, PB/honey sandwiches, raisins, grapes, and blueberries. He still likes baby food pouches, and I like that it's an easy way to get him to eat some veggies. Peanut butter Cheerios were discontinued, but Tyler seems content with the multigrain Cheerios for now. He also recently discovered a love for Annie's graham bunnies and Teddy Grahams. 

Sleeping: Tyler goes to bed at about 8:00-8:30pm and wakes up around 7:00-7:30am. If we're home or in the car, he often will fall asleep for a brief morning nap around 10:00am. He also usually takes a good nap after lunch. 

His days: Tyler goes to Mother's Day Out three days each week. He also tags along to Caleb's weekly PT, OT and speech therapy sessions, and he actively participates in all of them... two for the price of one?! 

Highlights of the last three months: Goodness... he has grown up so much over the last three months! Here are just a few of the "highlights" and big milestones

Tyler officially became a "walker" a couple days after turning 15 months, and he never looked back. He loves to run around with Caleb, crawl up the stairs, scoot down the stairs, "jump" in the pool and climb on anything he can. He has no fear! 

He has an insane vocabulary and seems so smart. The things he says sometimes just blow me away. A couple examples...

- We were recently at the lake with Brad's family. Brad's dad was doing "This little piggy" on Tyler's toes. When Dane finished, Tyler looked around and asked "What pig?"

- One morning last week, he was sitting next to me on the sofa and sneezed. He spewed a mouthful of partially chewed Cheerios all over my arm. He looked at my arm and exclaimed "Gross! Clean it!" 

He is learning numbers and starting to count. His idea of counting to ten is "One, two, four, SIX (his favorite), ten!" We need to keep working on three, five, seven, eight and nine... but give him a break, people... he's only eighteen months old! 

He doesn't like to have on a wet diaper, so he usually does one of two things

- he gets a diaper from his drawer and brings it to me

- he runs to me and says either "potty" or "pull-up"

He is very interested in the potty, so we're introducing him to the whole concept of potty training. He sits on his potty several times each day and has successes every now and then. He loves it when I let him wear Pull-ups instead of diapers. We're not going to put any pressure on him to potty train soon, but I expect it will come easy to him when we feel that it's time to get serious about it. 

He is currently getting all four of his first-year molars. That takes the teeth count up to ten.