23 Months

How can it be that our baby is 23 months old and will be 2 this month!?!?! My how time flies when you are having fun! Here is what Colton has been up to this month.
• Still a great sleeper with nighttime sleep from 8:30 to about 8:00 am with one 2 hour nap. I can say this month we finally got him to take naps again on his own since the surgery! WooHoo!!
• Food variety is such a challenge with this boy! But this boy can eat him some chips and salsa/queso! We keep trying things, but he is still picky.
• Colton still has 16 teeth. We think he is still working on his 2nd year molars.
• He is wearing 18 month and some 18-24 month clothes and size 4 diapers.
• Colton’s vocabulary continues to grow and grow! It is amazing how much he remembers and some of the things he will say. Most of the time it keeps us laughing for sure!
• Colton is starting to use his imagination and pretend play more. He likes to make his airplane fly, stir things up, and make his trains go choo choo. It is fun to see him play this way! We moved up a level at Gymboree and each week is a different pretend play theme. He loves it and really gets it!
• He is doing so well with his manners! He pretty much always will say “thank you” if you give him something he asks for. He also will say “welcome” after he says “thank you” before we have a chance too! :) Most of the time he will say please when he wants something as well. He will also say “bless you” when you sneeze…and then laugh. :)
• Colton loves loves loves to be outside playing in the backyard with Austin and in the dirt and rocks. He asks to go outside every day! Thank goodness the weather has been awesome for lots of outside playtime!
• Some of his other favorite things right now are: working puzzles, pointing out basketball on tv, eating Mexican food at Tupy’s, every time he does something himself he asks me to “take a picture” (guess he is used to the camera! Ha!!), practicing drinking from a normal cup, dinosaurs, pointing out letters and counting, the iPad and our iPhones (especially the Talking Tom Cat app), dancing, facing forward in the car and pointing out things he sees, and being a monkey climbing all over everything!

Colton is so sweet and gives the best hugs and kisses!

So happy playing outside!!

Just Dance! He is dancing with the penguins on Happy Feet. :)

The Monkey! I left the playroom/office for a second and returned to this.

Colton loves Gymboree!

Here is Colton practicing drinking from a cup. You can tell how proud he is of himself! :)

"Rollin with my homie Ernie!" :)

Who needs toys when a bucket can provide lots of entertainment! He thought this was hilarious!