20

20 months...20 points of interest

1. Dude loves to climb.  Present day personal goals include scaling the back of the couch and balancing for 10 or more seconds on one foot on a wheeled riding toy...any riding toy will do.
2. Mama's little animal.  We play a little game where I ask him at random if he is "mama's little * insert animal of chioce here" and he will respond with the animal's common sound.  Monkey is his personal favourite....but mama likes cows that say booooo.
3. He is a big boy weighing more than 28 pounds and standing at more than 33 inches in height.  Fits perfectly into size 2 clothes.
4. Music flows through this boy's veins (well...it would if he HAD veins).  Current favourites included 5 little monkeys, eensy weensy spider, Barney's I Love You, skinamirink, and Elephants have wrinkles.  Word of warning, he takes the actions very seriously so DO NOT quietly sing the spider song in his ear as he drifts off to sleep.  When that poor spider gets washed out?  Mama gets a black eye.
5. Loves to toddle in the snow.  Pick up the snow, lick the snow, blow snow off his mittens.  Certainly a winter boy.
6. Baba=the bottle and is in our life for the foreseeable future because of dudes swallowing delays so I'm glad he is a willing participant in drinking out of it.  Unfortunately he begins to freak out as soon as it is mentioned and continues to scream until it is in his mouth
7. BuBa=blue ball.  He can throw it up and kick it for hours.  Loves his little blue ball.
8. Bumpa=grandpa.  Grandpa spent much of month 20 living with us while he worked on contract in the area.  BenBen loves his Bumpa and asks for him every time a black car drives by.
9. tuckey...a truck of course and
10. carkey...well, a car and 
11. cookie...obvious and 
12. cuckie...hello?  Its a chicken!  You know, they go cluck-ie.
13. Baby boy is getting bossy as he picks up his first "controlling" words including more, go, up, more, more and more.  Mostly more.  And the adult better know what he wants more of because frustration follows quickly if the adult is in the dark.
14. Bedtime is getting later...and later...and later.  If I stick to 7:30 he takes an hour to go to sleep some of the time.  If I do 8:30 it may only take 1/2 an hour but at 9 bedtime is 5 minutes, a quiet rendition of his favourite songs, a black eye for mama and snoring.  But frankly 9 is waaaay toooooo late when I kiss him awake at 6:15 am so I' going to start running him around the block to tire him out.  can't wait til spring...
15. cheddar cheese, sticky rice, peas, corn flakes, cheerios, melon, pears, broccoli and any noodle that is long and round...a few of his favourite things.  Not a huge fan of meat but really a diverse eater when he is feeling well.  Otherwise?  rice.  only.  rice...
16. Counts to three and matches the objects with his finger.  Right now it sounds like this... bu, bu, bu.
17. cars and trains and animals that eat meat. Oh, and elephants.  Favourites around here.
18. So very ticklish all over his body.  One of his favourite games to play is called trapped.  I trap im between my legs and then tickle him over and over from his toes to his neck.  Oh, the belly laughs.  I hope they stay forever.
19. Ben ben learned to blow bubbles in the bath this month.  Not mama's favourite activity but he LOVES to blow bubbles.  Now he tries to do it when he is having a sip of water from his straw cup.  Ewww...messy wet boy.  And belly giggles of course.
20. Ben is so very sweet.  Loves to cuddle and hug and kiss.  and then he likes to do it again.  Love my little Manh.