Just some milestones...

Adam. 19 months. He says: ball, oskar, truck, book, bear, duck, moo, baa, and woof, all in abbreviated Adam-speak. He doesn't have a big vocabulary, but he understands EVERYTHING. If you ask him where something is, he'll try and go find it and bring it to you. If I tell him we are going to the park, he goes and sits on the stairs waiting to have his shoes put on. I also ask him if he has pooped and he pats him bottom. Then I say, "do we need to go upstairs?" and he starts heading upstairs.

He is actually kind of obsessed with shoes. He loves having new shoes. When I gave him his "new" (Ethan's old) sandals he pointed them out to everyone he saw for the next two days. He also puts on Daddy's sandals and walks around outside. Think little girl wearing her Mom's high heels. And he likes to put on hats he finds around the house. He's just an easy going little guy, but kind of klutzy. I don't think a day has gone by that he hasn't given himself a knock on the head. Whether it's tripping over his own feet, walking into a head level furniture, or slipping on the kitchen floor it always ends in a nice shiner on his head. He also likes to open drawers and close his fingers in them.

At nearly 20 months I'm trying to transition him to 1 nap. His morning nap was still going strong at 2 hours, but the afternoon nap was getting more difficult, and I really want to be able to take the boys places in the morning. He's still a big time thumb sucker. And in fact I think he brought the last cold into the house. He took down all of us with that one.

He loves to put food on his head during meals. It's not that he's full, maybe he likes to mix food on his head for added flavor? He loves books and most of the time when I get him from his crib in the morning or after a nap he's yelling "book" and runs over to collect a few. He also loves to dance any time he hears music.

He makes funny faces now. I still have to get a picture of it. It's a cross between a cheesey cheese and a dental exam. He also has his first girlfriend. She's an older woman at 2.5, her name is Taylor. She's already fed him his water, shared her goldfish snack, and held his hand up the stairs of the playground.

Ethan buttoned his pants for the first time today. I'm not talking snaps or an elastic waste, but a button! Yes, it's the small victories that make me proud. He's doing great in school, not fighting with me about going there anymore. He's happy to go, but I have to stay until he finished washing his hands...seems fair.

He enjoys playing board games now and is always asking to play Candyland, Chutes and Ladders, or Puppy Pals Bingo. He is actually really good about taking turns and following the rules. He loves reading books with Adam and I. He's getting better about doing things on his own. We finally got him to put on his own socks and shoes. Yes he's almost 4 and just putting on his own shoes...while his 1.5 year old brother desperately tries to put on his own shoes.

He still remains to be a very picky eater much to his Mother's frustration. However yesterday with Adam on a bike seat on my bike and Ethan on his bike we rode to the store and bought a dinosaur sandwich cutter. That day he ate an entire sandwich, then today he ate TWO sandwiches for lunch and dinosaur french toast for dinner. I plan to make dinosaur chicken quesadillas and other dinosaur meals while this lasts.

We've all had a rough time adjusting to daylight savings time. We missed Ethan's 8am class on Tuesday because WE ALL SLEPT IN until 7:50am. We are getting there. Today we all got up around 7:15. You would think we could just set an alarm clock and be done, right? Well no, we want to sleep silly! I'm really thankful Ethan has afternoon preschool this week.

Oskar has been infested with fleas for a few weeks. Poor guy. I've been washing bedding (his and ours) and flea hunting on him several times a day. In his five years, we've never had a problem like this. It's horrible...especially since I'm scrumptious to the fleas too. I think we are finally getting a handle on things, but we'll see. I'm going to try and get some new flea meds for him since I heard it might be more effective than what we've been using.