Grant at 20 months

As of the 23rd, my boy is 20 months old! I'm still wondering where all the time went! He has grown up so much these last few months & is no longer looking like a baby, but more & more like a little boy. He is one handsome little guy or should I say tall guy & he fills our lives with so much joy & laughter...

He is still doing really well potty-training & is now using the regular toilet without even a potty seat on it. He very rarely has accidents & is now telling us "pee pee" or "poo" when he has to go!

He is talking more & more all the time. I can't even list all the words he says now, but his new favorites are "goggles" & he loves to wear motorcyle goggles around the house (imagine that...I'm DOOMED)! He also say's "plane" & will sit at a window, outside, or in the car & spot them from far away...usually before we even do. He also points out the "sun" & the moon". He will randomly mimic things, such as "turtle" (yesterday at the zoo) & picks up on things so quickly. The joke around here is that he is going to wait to say grandma until he's about ten because he knows its driving his grandmas crazy! (We have quietly heard it a few times though). In the last few days, I've loved how often he is saying momma! Even the "momma, momma, momma...hi" thing isn't driving me crazy yet, & it always just melts my heart. We laugh at how sweetly he says "ugh.. no" to things. "Mine" is now another favorite word... Its pretty cute, but not one of my favorites lol.

He knows pretty much all animals & the sounds they make too. I think his favorite animal right now is a kitty. I might be "doomed" with him having motorcyles someday, but Joey is doomed for having a cat one of these days too!

He makes the silliest faces... when we say smile, he squints his eyes & scrunches up his face. When we say pretty eyes, he starts blinking non stop. He also makes different faces depending on which animal we ask him about.

He knows the gestures for a few different songs & will randomly start doing them so that you can sing with him. His daddy has him mixed up with "If you happy & you know it" Instead of doing one verse "clap your hands" & the next verse "stomp your feet", he does it all in one..."clap your hands, STOMP your feet". So on Monday at library story time (my first time going with him & his grammy since I'm usually in class), while everyone was doing the first verse "clap your hands", Grant gets up & is clapping his hands while stomping his feet. All the moms & grandmas got a good laugh out of it. Another new one he learned from my mom the other day (a not so popular one) goes like "shoe a horsey, shoe a mare, shoe a cody... bear, bear, bear" & while its being sung, you slap the bottoms of his feet. Well my mom had taught him it in the morning, while I was sleeping & later that night he starts slapping his feet & trying to sing & when I didn't know all the words, he hands me my phone... almost as if to tell me to call grandma & ask. So we did. Then the next morning when he was with his grammy (Joey's mom), he starts slapping his feet & she was wondering why. It just makes me laugh at how quick he picks up on things.

He still signs "please" instead of saying it with words. Its the only thing he signs anymore & I'm totally fine with it... just as long as he's saying it in some form!

He has a new obsession with babies & loves to point them out & sweetly says "baby". I guess its a sign that he wants mommy to have one... right? ;) We plan to start trying for one of those towards the end of summer. (The timing works best for my school semesters or we'd start sooner).

He loves to be outside & doesn't care what the weather is like... he'd be out there all day, everyday, if it was up to him. He will randomly start saying "bye bye" & get his shoes & jacket & then proceed to get ours too. If he doesn't get to go right then or if you tell him we will, but its not RIGHT NOW, then he gets pretty upset.

He's starting to throw little temper tantrums every now & then, but he gets over them pretty quickly. Please don't tell me that we are already starting "terrible twos"? They usually happen over things he wants, like going outside or a bottle.

He's still having a bottle & he is pretty attached to it. I figure I'll break it around 2 years. Thats what our doctor reccommends & I figure I can only do one thing at a time... We broke the binky right after his first birthday & are now potty training so I just don't think its fair to do too much growing up at once. Plus he needs & loves it! :)

He's a good little sleeper & will usually sleep 10 to 12 hours at night then around 2 hours at naptime. Every so often, he absolutely refuses his nap & we just put him to bed earlier. He's starting to drag out bedtime by trying to distract us... its actually pretty funny. The last few nights its been taking him awhile to fall asleep & he fusses a little longer than usual. I figure/hope its just another stage of testing his limits & we don't give in unless we think there is something really bothering him & we can usually tell by the cry he makes or the things he's mumbling about.

He's a social butterfly & says "hi" & "bye" to complete strangers. He has no problem making friends with kids we see at the park or wherever else. This is something he definately gets from his daddy because I was a very shy little girl. (These are the kinds of things that make me so curious to have another baby). The other day while we were out at lunch & he was totally flirting with a girl sitting at the next booth & when we got up to pay he was high-fiving a group of elderly couples that were next to the register. They were "ooing & ahhing" at his big brown eyes & he totally knew what they were saying & was showing off.

I never noticed how tall he really is for his age until recently with being around more kids. Since birth, he's always been somewhere in the 90th percentile for height & was 98% at his last appointment. Another thing he obviously gets from his dad.

We took him for the first time this year, yesterday, & he loved all the animals & learning the sounds they all make. He was totally content with it all, until the very end. He was feeding goats & sheep & I stood back to take a picture (a family friend, Lindsey & his aunt Amanda were with him) & the sheep got irritated at the goats because they were hogging all the food so it "baaaad" really loud & Grant jumped like 5 feet then started screaming/crying. My first reaction was to laugh because the situation was so funny, but then I felt like the worst mom ever when I realized how upset he was. We told the sheep "no no" & it seemed to make him feel better. At the time, his grammy was in the bathroom so when she came walking up, he had to tell her all about it. It was pretty funny & went something like "baaaa... NO NO". He was pretty timid/nervous the rest of the trip so thankfully that happened towards the end.

One last thing he's been doing lately is telling anything that gets him, bonks him, or trips him, "no no". Its probably not the best thing to teach him.... that everything that happens to him is that things fault, but it gets his mind off it quickly & we all get a good laugh. He'll bonk his head on a chair & turn around and tell the chair "no no". The only issue we've ran into with this one is when we are trying to tell him no for something, but he'll turn around like we are talking to something else & start saying it too.

We sure love this little guy & get so many laughs out of the things he does. I feel so blessed to have such a healthy & smart little boy & I don't think it gets better than that.

I had originally planned to add pictures, but I'm feeling to lazy for that & they are all on facebook usually anyway!