16 months

Wow, its already time for your 16 month update.  The biggest change this month is your ability to get your point across.  You shake your head no when you don’t want something which makes it a lot easier to figure out what you need.  You bang your hand on the door to the basement or on chairs to let us know you either want to go play downstairs or sit somewhere.   You love to play downstairs by the way.  We took you downstairs for the first time on Thanksgiving and you are now obsessed with playing there. You are also our little pianist.  You beg to sit on the bench and play or bang the keys.

Words – you have added a few this month: agua, apple, hi, ma for milk & more, go and uh oh.  You love to drop things and say uh oh.  You have destroyed a number of sippy cups by cracking them as they crash to the floor.

Connor is still taking 2 naps – morning and afternoon, but I think we will be down to one pretty soon, the morning nap is getting later and later.  The bedtime routine is still the same as last month, down at 7pm and up around 4am for a bottle, then back down until about 7 or 7:30.  When it’s time to go up to bed, he says night night to everyone as he is being carried up the stairs, so cute.

We have finally dropped bottles during the day, he only gets one for bedtime and at the 4am feeding.  He is eating everything we are now and seems to be pretty easy to feed.  He isn’t a huge fan of veggies but will eat a few with meals.  Loves fruit – blueberries, mandarin oranges, apples, mango, strawberries…..Pasta is the easiest meal since he can feed himself and loves it. 

Connor has been pretty healthy (knock on wood this winter). We had to take him to the doctor right after Christmas, his eye lids were very swollen. He had an infection called cellulitis which thankfully was cured pretty quickly with amoxicillin.  Still no ear infection!! A miracle. 

As you can see from the picture, Connor loves helmets - football and hockey and wears them every chance he gets. He runs around all day long and never stops.  Puzzles and most toys have yet to hold his attention.