18 Months Old

Joshua has been busy these past months...we had fun today listing the words he knows - shoes, socks, hot, hat, dada (often all men get called dada...hmmm), baba (his name for me - so glad to have a label), papa, gigi, sis (not just his sister, but any baby esp pictures of him as a baby), fish, dog, ball, grandpa, josh, elle (he has a friend elle, but also calls all girls who are his friends elle with extra tongue emphasis), bonk, brrr, truck, baby. He also signs - more/food/snack, please, thank you, bye bye, drink, help, all done - most of them have consistent sounds that go along, but they aren't necessarily similar to the word. Josh has reached the phase of childhood where her RUNS not walks everywhere and he's getting fast! He also went to the doctor today and weighed in at 25lbs (25-50%) and 33" (50-75%).

He's got his own sense of humor and will often bust out a big, hearty, "HA!" when something is amusing to him. He's also starting to practice laughing when it's socially expected, so if Dan and I are laughing about something, he'll just join right in. The other day at the grocery store some people were having their own conversation and chuckled and he joined right in with a big laugh. What a ham! All things with wheels get announced with a "vroom, vroom". Cars, trucks, motorcycles, construction equipment...but also, grills, shopping carts, motorized wheel chairs, bicycles - too funny.

Some big recent events were going to the Jacksonville Zoo with his cousins, visiting Papa and Gigi and everyone else in Tallahassee, getting to watch his Baby Einstein Old MacDonald movie, and playing in the little backyard pool. He spends most of his time standing outside the pool and dipping water out with a cup to fill up my watering can until it's overflowing. Oh, he also LOVES the beach. We had such a good time this morning. He's likes just running around, plopping in the sand, burying himself, playing around the posts of the pier, "surfing" on daddy's board, chasing birds (thanks, Grandma!), running from the waves, seeing lots of dogs and people to flirt with and much more.